In the center of Bucharest, near Union Plazza, the tourist can see the world’s second largest building (after the US Pentagon), the Palace of Parliament, formerly named People’s House.
The building, which was built in 1984, spans 12 stories, 3100 rooms and covers over 330,000 sq m. The building is constructed entirely of materials of Romanian origin. Estimates of the materials used include one million cubic meters of marble. There are 45 minute tours every half hour which lead through the building’s vast collection of marble rooms and culminates in an impressive view from the main balcony.