Palace Of The Parliament, Bucharest

Palace Of The Parliament, Bucharest

Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament has emerged as an unlikely pillar of Romania's nascent democracy.
The palace, so big it can be seen from space opened its doors in early 1990. , it's the world's second-largest administrative building after the Pentagon
Parliament and the Constitutional Court are housed inside. But over
Ceausescu designed the palace to house the government and Parliament after the devastating earthquake of 1977. Ceausescu was nothing if not ambitious: He wanted the new building to with stand any earthquake and last 500 years.
She says
"This building ended up such big due to a technical reason," she insisted.
She said that if Ceausescu were alive to see what had become of it, he "would make the sign of the cross" – a Romanian expression that means he'd be horrified.