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Government Building Attractions In Bucharest

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Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than 60 km north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. It became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical , interbellum , communist-era and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest ...
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Government Building Attractions In Bucharest

  • 1. Palace of Parliament Bucharest
    The Palace of the Parliament is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. Located on Dealul Arsenalului in the national capital city of central Bucharest , it is the second largest administrative building in the world after The Pentagon. The Palace has a height of 84 metres , an area of 365,000 square metres and a volume of 2,550,000 cubic metres . In terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is also the heaviest building in the world, weighing in at around 4,098,500,000 kilograms .A colossal building, designed and supervised by chief architect Anca Petrescu , with a team of approximately 700 architects, constructed over a period of 13 years , it was built as a monument for a totalitarian kitsch style of architecture, in Totalitarian and modernist Neoclassical architectural forms and styl...
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  • 2. Palatul Parlamentului Bucharest
    The Palace of the Parliament is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. Located on Dealul Arsenalului in the national capital city of central Bucharest , it is the second largest administrative building in the world after The Pentagon. The Palace has a height of 84 metres , an area of 365,000 square metres and a volume of 2,550,000 cubic metres . In terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is also the heaviest building in the world, weighing in at around 4,098,500,000 kilograms .A colossal building, designed and supervised by chief architect Anca Petrescu , with a team of approximately 700 architects, constructed over a period of 13 years , it was built as a monument for a totalitarian kitsch style of architecture, in Totalitarian and modernist Neoclassical architectural forms and styl...
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  • 3. Palace of Justice Bucharest
    The Palace of Justice , located in Bucharest, Romania, was designed by the architects Albert Ballu and Ion Mincu and built between 1890 and 1895. Located on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, it houses the Bucharest Court of Appeal and the Sector 5 Court. Its last major restoration was between 2003 and 2006. The Palace has 690 rooms with a total area of 33,235 m2 .
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  • 4. Victoria Palace Bucharest
    For the London, England theatre venue, see Victoria Palace Theatre.Victory Palace is a government building on the very large Victory Square in Bucharest, housing the Prime Minister of Romania and his cabinet. The Victory Palace was designed in 1937 to house the Foreign Ministry, and nearly complete in 1944. It was designed by architect Duiliu Marcu , who had designed many major buildings in 1920s and 30s Romania, including many major government projects in the 1930s and 40s. The Victory Palace is a stylised monumental classical design, with an arcaded ground level, a long colonnade of slim piers on the main front, and two recessed top floors. The facades were entirely clad in Carrara marble, with reliefs in the panels at either end, and there were generously decorated interiors.The buildin...
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