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I could not resist taking a photo of this license plate. B 64 DUD!!

City photo of our Traveling group

The river that flows thorugh the center is the Dambovita River, a tributary of the Danube.

The Palace of the Parliament is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. Located in central Bucharest. It is the second largest administrative building in the world, if excluding the Pentagon with a height of 276 ft, an area of 3,930,000 sq ft and a volume of 90,000,000 cu feet. In terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world.

A colossal parliament building known for its ornate interior composed of 23 sections, it houses the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, three museums and an international conference center. The museums hosted inside the Palace are the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Communist Totalitarianism and the Museum of the Palace.

Building across the street from the Parliament Building..

The construction of the Palace began in 1984 and should have been completed in only two years. The term was then extended until 1990, but even now it is not finalized. Only 400 rooms and two meeting rooms are finished and used, out of 1,100 rooms. In the center of the photo is a patio area with a flag on each side of the patio. The next photo is taken from that patio area. looking out onto the city.

This is the patio area look out to the city as seen in the previous photo in the distance.

One of many buildings along the river

Group of Comedy Statues in front of the National Theater Bucharest

Many of the streets remind you of Europe as you drive around the city.

Group of local school children on a tour with their teacher

Groups of Russian builings still in use from the Communist Block Era of history.

Inside one of the many walkways inside the Parliamentary Palace in Bucharest

At first, the building was called “House of the Republic”, but its name was changed after the Romanian Revolution into “People’s House”. When it became the headquarters of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies it was again renamed as the Palace of Parliament.

Ceausescu really wanted to have the hugest Palace of the Parliament in the world. The building has 20 floors (8 of them are underground), 100 rooms. The Guinness Book of Records ranks it second after the Pentagon in the “Administrative Buildings” category

The building has 400 chambers and 2 large Halls. The building has 1,100 total Rooms.

The building has outside gardens in the center of the building

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