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People's House (Parliament's Palace)
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Street Address
1-3, September 13th Road, Sector 5
Directions
Unirii Square
Contact Number
+421 402.11.11
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Intro to People's House (Parliament's Palace)
It's a building of great proportions, extended on an area of 64,800 square meters - the second building in the world after the Pentagon's building in Washington. Built between 1984 and 1989 on Uranus Hill, after the plans of a Romanian collective of architects, this stately building has a rectangular shape, with sides of 270 meters in front and respectively 240 meters on the sides, a height of 84 meters and a depth, under the 0 elevation, that descends to 92 meters. The areas of the 440 offices, of the many conference and meeting halls (from which three halls are between 1,000 and 1,500 square meters each, two halls of over 2,000 square meters each, two meeting halls with a capacity of 1,200 seats and respectively 850 seats) totalize 265,000 square meters. from the point of view of the constructed volume, People's House occupies the third place in the world (with 2.55 million cubic meters ) after the building from Cape Canaveral (U.S.A) where cosmic rockets are mounted (with 3.67 million cubic meters) and the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl (3.3 million cubic meters) from Mexico.
Made under the dictatorship of the comunist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, the building serve today as Parliament's Palace
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