The Palace of the Parliament, ordered to be built by former president Nicolae Ceausescu, was raised between 1984 and 1989. It is the biggest administrative building in Europe and the second building in the world, after the Pentagon. The palace has 6000 rooms: hundreds of offices, tens of huge reception and ball halls and many conference halls. On the second floor there are two monumental halls (150 m. long, 18 m. high), as well as other 480 impressive rooms. The best quality marble or the huge chandeliers whose weight often bypasses 1 ton, such things make the palace look very impressive and luxurious, a perfect symbol standing for the despotism and craziness of the man that had it built. Continue reading Parliament Palace – Bucharest
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