The Bucharest-based news agency Mediafax has said that the former military compound of Targoviste in central Romania will be accepting visitors from September.

Guests will be able to see the wall against which Ceausescu, one of the former Eastern bloc’s most notorious dictators, faced the firing squad with his wife, Elena.

It has been repainted in the colours that were in place at the time of their deaths, and furniture from the era has been restored.

Visitors will also be able to see the actual beds where the Ceausescus slept on the eve of their death. There are three beds in place, including one for the soldier who was guarding them.

There will also be an exhibition detailing the building’s earlier history, showing its past incarnation as a cavalry school in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Officials decided to open up the base after overseas tourists expressed an interest in seeing it.

The Ceausescus fled Bucharest during the Romanian Revolution of 1989, but were intercepted by the military. They were executed in Targoviste on Christmas Day 1989, following a three-day military tribunal.

Ceausescu ruled Romania from 1967 until communism in the country came to an end.

Visitors are expected to be charged 7 lei (£1.50) for entrance.

Other famous execution sites

Lake Como, Italy (Mussolini)

Mussolini was executed near this Italian beauty spot in April 1945. The actual execution took place in Giulino, where it is marked by a small cross.

Place de la Concorde, France (Marie Antoinette)

Many a grisly scene has played out in this Parisian square, including the guillotining of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI.

Read more: Telegraph Travel's Paris city guide

Rouen (Joan of Arc)

The 15th century peasant girl, who led the French Army to several victories in the Hundred Years War, came to a grisly end at the stake in Rouen in 1431. Her name graces streets and squares, cafés and restaurants, cakes and cocktails, market stalls and museums, a bridge, a church and a car park.

Read more: on the trail of Joan of Arc

Cerro de las Campanas (Maximiliano I of Mexico)

The European-backed Emperor of Mexico was killed by firing squad on Cerro de las Campanas, Santiago de Querétaro, in central Mexico in 1867.

Akershus Fortress, Norway (Vidkun Quisling)

The Norwegian politician worked so notoriously with the Nazis that the word “quisling” came to mean a Nazi collaborator. He was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress near Oslo. It is now open to the public, and guided tours in English are available.

More information: Visit Oslo

Yekaterinburg, Russia (Nicholas II)

The last Tsar was executed at Yekaterinburg, now the fourth largest city in Russia, in the Ural mountains. The firing squad that killed him and his family lined up at Ipaniev House, which was demolished in 1977. There is now a church in its place.

Jerusalem (Jesus of Nazareth)

Although the precise place of the crucifix is debated over, the generally accepted site now has Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City.

UK sites

Tyburn

Public executions used to took place at Tyburn in west London, until they were no longer public. The site of the gallows is now marked on the pavement in the middle of Edgware Road at its junction with Bayswater Road.

Whitehall Palace, London

Charles I was executed with a single axe blow here on January 30, 1649.

Smithfield, London

William Wallace – aka Braveheart – was hung, drawn and quartered here in 1305.

The Tower of London

Possibly the most high-profile and prolific of all the execution sites, with victims including Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey.

More information: Prisoners of the Tower exhibition

Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire

Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded on a scaffold here in February 1587. It remains a protected site, although the castle has been in ruins for centuries.