Palace of the Parliament - Bucharest - 2014

It is claimed to be the 2nd largest building (in area) in the world.
(The Pentagon, near Washington DC in the USA is larger.)
The Palace of the Parliament is claimed to be the heaviest building in the world.
It was completed in 1997 and has Romania's two houses of parliament as well as a vast number of government offices.
It has more than 1100 rooms.

































































































 





























From this balcony you can see an avenue which was built deliberately to be slightly longer and wider than the Champs D'Elysee in Paris.