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Palace of the People - Palace of the Parliament

Palace of the People - Palace of the Parliament

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Palace of the People - Palace of the Parliament

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Location: Bucharest, Romania

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1. The Romanian Athenaeum – Equestrian Statue of King Carol I loop from Piața Romană

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2. The Romanian Athenaeum – Equestrian Statue of King Carol I loop from Piața Romană

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02:32

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3. The Romanian Athenaeum – Equestrian Statue of King Carol I loop from Piața Romană

8.93km

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Felix

June 10, 2018

2nd largest building in the world (after Pentagon). It's impressive and surely a must visit. It can be visited inside as well. It's also known as "People's palace" ( palatul poporului).

The building was one of Ceaucescu's most megalomanic wishes. It is that large that there are still parts of it that are still not finished. The carpets inside wright several tones.

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August 30, 2021

A building with 12 floors, 270 m long and 245 m wide; 48 m visible above ground and 15 m below the surface. You will not often find a building even bigger than the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest. When Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu ordered the construction of this extremely luxurious building, a large part of Bucharest's historic city center had to pay the price. An entire neighborhood, a stadium, churches, monasteries and synagogues were demolished to make room.
When the building was built, the entire economy served only the palace. Everything was made 100% from materials that came from Romania. All marble production was intended for the palace and the tombstones for the dead had to be made from other materials, such as wood. Today the Romanian Parliament is housed in the palace, but even that is not big enough to fill it. Therefore, the building is regularly used for other purposes, such as a conference center. The west wing of the building houses the National Museum of Modern Art.

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Traian.G.Popescu

September 17, 2020

The construction of the Palace began in 1984 and initially should have been completed in only two years. The term was then extended until 1990, but even now it is not finalized. Only 400 rooms and two meeting rooms are finished and used, out of 1,100 rooms.
The building has eight underground levels, the last one being a nuclear bunker, linked to the main state institutions by 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) of catacombs. Nicolae Ceaușescu feared nuclear war. The bunker is a room with 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) thick concrete walls and can not be penetrated by radiation. The shelter is composed of the main hall – headquarters that would have had telephone connections with all military units in Romania – and several residential apartments for state leadership, in the event of war.

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Palace of the People - Palace of the Parliament

1. The Romanian Athenaeum – Equestrian Statue of King Carol I loop from Piața Romană

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