Darren and Janet Scotland, Faroes, Romania 2024

Ceaușescu's marble staircase... and a matching one the other side for his wife

These doors slide back into the walks to make the 150m long hall look even more impressive

The heaviest chandelier in the building, 5 tons - is cleaned by climbing inside from above

Clearly they got tired of answering the same questions!

Antim Monastery, moved in the 1980's to save it from demolition to build the palace

The People's House

5. juni 2024, Romania ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

Today we did a guided tour of the Palace of the Parliament (aka House of the Republic aka The People's House), the seat of the Romanian Parliament. It is on Unity Boulevard, originally named Triumph of Socialism Boulevard.

It was ordered built by Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and built by displacing 50,000 citizens and demolishing their homes in the 1980's (no compensation was offered).

It is the heaviest building in the world, containing 1,100 rooms, 10 stories above ground, and 8 below, including a nuclear bunker under Ceausescu's former office. If you visited one room every thirty seconds it would take you 9 hours to visit them all.

After our visit we walked into Unity Plaza for lunch, then home on the underground. The underground system is efficient and reliable - and cheap, a single journey to anywhere on the network is $1.Les mer

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