0 Palace of Parliament in Bucharest

 Parliament Palace in Bucharest (Bucharest), Romania. Another name that is famous palace of the Parliament, is home to the people. The building is considered the second largest administrative building in the world. The dimensions of the building are more than impressive: its length is two hundred and seventy meters, width - two hundred and forty feet.

Palace of the Parliament building is high eighty-six meters and continues down into the earth to a depth ninety-two m. Palace of Parliament has eight underground levels, four of which are used, and twelve floors. The building is considered the most expensive office building in the world. It is recognized as the worst building in the world.

The building was built during the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Nicolae Ceausescu). Palace of the Parliament has eleven hundred rooms and two underground parking. The area of ​​the Palace of Parliament is three hundred and forty thousand square meters. The highest room in the building is sixteen meters high and longest corridor length is one hundred fifty meters.

 According to rough estimates of experts to build the Palace of Parliament have used one million cubic meters of stones, over three thousand tons a crystal that was used for the creation of four hundred eighty chandeliers, mirrors and over a thousand lamps. Used are seven hundred thousand tons steel and bronze, almost one million cubic meters darvoi two hundred thousand square meters carpet. A curious fact is that carpets were woven right into the halls because they are huge and should be submitted technique for creating them in the Palace.


The building was built on the ruined hill in Bucharest. One of the legends of the place where now stands the Palace of Parliament, had been a cemetery where they buried thousands died from the plague epidemic in Bucharest.

To create a palace of Parliament had to be destroyed historically significant area of ​​the city being destroyed houses and churches. To stand the building were demolished a few neighborhoods, built boulevard with fountains.

Construction began in 1983. Although the idea of ​​building it was to serve the interests of the people, Ceausescu wanted to turn it into his own residence. Ironically, the building was completed during the execution of Ceausescu in 1989.


In order to create the design of the building projects are worked over seven hundred architects. It is estimated that the building was worth over three billion dollars. In its construction were involved over twenty thousand workers.

After the democratic changes have an idea building to be demolished, but the money invested in it too much, so the building began to perform different functions. In the Chamber of Parliament is housed Romanian Senate Chamber of Deputies to hold international events as part of the building is open to visitors. In 1999 Michael Jackson concert of one of the terraces of the parliament.