Palace of Parliament - The house of the people

The Palace of Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului), better known as "Casa Poporului" (The House of The People) is the largest building in Europe and the building that holds three records homologated by the Guinness Book of World Records: for the largest civilian administrative building in the world, the heaviest building in the world and the most expensive administrative building in the world.

The first largest building in the world is the Pentagon.

It was designed and almost finished by the Ceauşescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power. Its initial official name was House of the Republic (Casa Republicii), given on June 25, 1984 by Nicolae Ceauşescu, but the building it was best known as People's House (Casa Poporului),[2] a name still used by many Romanians.

It measures 270 m by 240 m, 86 m high, and 92 m under ground. It has 1,100 rooms and is 12 stories tall, with four additional underground levels currently available and in use, with another four in different stages of completion.