Palace of the Parliament

Starting from an older idea, the building of the Parliament Palace was built in the days of Nicolae Ceausescu in a time of great economic deprivation. The dictator's tendency was, on the one hand, to concentrate all the central bodies of the state in one building, and on the other, Ceausescu wanted a seismically safe home that would withstand a possible nuclear attack.

Other dimensions of the building: length - 270 m, width - 245 m, height - 84 m (over elevation 0), depth 16 m (under ground level), ground surface - 73,615 sqm.

The building was built with almost entirely Romanian materials, including: 1,000,000 cubic meters 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 cubic meters of wood , 3,500 tons of crystal, 200,000 cubic meters of glass, 2,800 chandeliers, 220,000 square meters of carpets, 3,500 square meters of leather.

The whole construction is the result of the effort of over 100,000 people, with nearly 20,000 workers working in three laps 24 hours a day in peak periods. Also, between 1984 and 1990, 12,000 soldiers participated in the construction.

cic@cdep.ro 40 21 316 0300

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