Parliament

Absolutely beautiful. I’ve seen many pictures of the building lit up at night. But the evening views don’t do justice to what’s inside, every part of the building is intentional, every color, every texture, every icon, has been so well thought out, that the designer made it look easy. My favorite part, are the statues, representing the trained craftsman, of the era. Of course they were all men, but likely they didn’t allow women to vote anyway, so they really didn’t need to be represented. There were lots of similarities between the Hungarian Parliament, and the Scottish Parliament, Including the statues and the artwork, depicting people, as though the elected officials were always being watched, and reminding the officials who they were there to represent. In the end, we saw maybe 15% of the building space, but it was enough to get a beautiful feel for the building.
The building also houses the crown jewels, guarded by two men 24 hours a day. Very similar to the crown on supper we saw in Scotland,. As we continue on this adventure, I look forward to visiting more Parliament type buildings and seeing what other similarities we can find , of course, we couldn’t take any photos of the crown and, so you’ll have to take my word for it. It was pretty.Read more