The Palace of the Parliament - one of the most controversial building in Romania
This is another thing that you must not miss when you come to visit Romania.According to the Guinness Book of World Records , "The Palace is the world's largest civilian administrative building , most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building."
The story of the building begins in 1984, when a team of 100 architects and 20.000 workers, were brought from all over the country to design the House Of Republic (this was the First name ; but the romanian people called it the House of People; after the Chamber of Deputies moved in here they name it the Palace of the Parliament in 1994).
Who orders this monumental construction?None other than Nicolae Ceausescu.But too bad that Nicolae was not able to see with his own eyes the entire building finished, because he died in 1989, four years after the construction began. When he died, the construction was completed only 70%.
The Palace of the Parliament has a rectangular shape, with impressive dimensions :270 meters long and 245 wide.The building has 12 floors, four levels and an underground nuclear bunker ( Ceausescu wanted to make a secret subway line to be linked to Bucharest subway ). The height reaches 86 meters and the foundation up to 92 meters deep.The total area is around 330.000 square meters.Inside you will find 1100 rooms : 440 house offices, dozens of conference rooms, the largest being those between 1.000 m and 1.500 m each. It has the two halls with over 2.000 m , two meetings room with a capacity of 1.200 seats and, respectively of 850 seats.The largest room is the Hall of Union, which has huge sliding roof that can enters even a helicopter.The room carpet is 14 tons and was weaving right there.
For the construction ,they used only romanian materials, but they had to improvised when they ran out of them.The materials used where 5.500 tons of cement, 200 thousand square meters of glass, 3.500 square meters of leather, 7000 tons of steel, a thousand tons of basalt and 20.000 tons of sand.
For the construction ,they used only romanian materials, but they had to improvised when they ran out of them.The materials used where 5.500 tons of cement, 200 thousand square meters of glass, 3.500 square meters of leather, 7000 tons of steel, a thousand tons of basalt and 20.000 tons of sand.
In an attempt to complete the construction of this Palace, after N.Ceausescu's death, huge sums were spent ,but so far the building is not fully functional
I must say that we are proud with this magnificent construction that Ceausescu has made it possible.
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