Dining event can be organised
THE BUILDING
Starting from an old idea, the building of the Palace of Parliament was built under Nicolae Ceauşescu during a period with high economic hardship. The dictator’s tendency was, on the one hand, to focus all the main bodies of the state in one building and, on the other hand, Ceauşescu wanted a safe place to live under a seismic risk, that would hold up to even a nuclear attack.
From an architectural point of view, the Parliament Palace is one of the most controversial buildings in Romania: Anca Petrescu1 identified it with the Buckingham Palace in London and the Versailles Palace in France, and the architects of the time with the „little Phenian”, with an eclectic style, loaded with contradictory elements2.
The story of the building of the Palace of Parliament and of the area in which it was placed is strongly interconnected with the initial years of Bucharest city, but also with its years of glory, when it was known as the ”Little Paris”.
The Reception Saloon
The building has a surface of 365.000 sqm and holds the 1st position in the Guinness World Records for the largest administrative building (for civil use), and the 3rd place worldwide from the volume point of view of; it is the heaviest and most expensive building in the world.
The building was built with construction materials produced in Romania, amongst which: 1,000,000 cbm of marble, 550,000 tons of cement, 700,000 tons of steel, 2,000,000 tons of sand, 1,000 tons of basalt, 900,000 cbm rich wood, 3,500 tons of crystal, 200,000 cbm of glass, 2,800 chandeliers, 220,000 sqm carpets, 3,500 sqm leather.
Unirii hall
The Palace of Parliament rises on the place where there once was the old Uranus neighbourhood, a district with hill sided, small streets paved with cubic stone, with old and quaint Romanian houses with bohemian glamour, many of which brought to light by architects from that time. The people living in those houses formed the middle class of the society. They were traders, craftsmen and owners of small businesses.
AL I Cuza hall
The Palace of Parliament is a „a masterpiece of the Romanians”
Catherine Lalumiere, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
The Brancovenesc Saloon
The Palace of Parliament symbol of democracy hosting the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, the Constitutional Court, the Legislative Council, etc.
Take Ionescu hall
