World's 2nd Largest Building, Ceausescu's Romanian Palace of Parliament

Built in the 80's by the dictator and mentally disturbed Nicolae Ceausescu, located in Bucharest, Romania, the Palace has 1000 rooms and is a testament to ugly excessive architecture. Now available to tour, this is one tour to take to experience how 100,000 people built an edifice to glorify 1 person and the Communist party. So come and enjoy the tour of a building that is hardly used anymore but gives a sense to the silly grandeur and symbol of crazy government intentions gone wrong.

[danut]

Below there are actually two antiatomic bunkers, the base consist of two meters deep rainforced concrete (reinforced with railway lines), under it 30 meters below are the bunkers, it can resist to an 8, 2 earthquake in Richter scale and the second bunker resist to a direct small atomic bomb.It was developed in a way to permit Ceausescu to runaway in case of necessity in about 7 minutes to the bunkers and in 15 minutes by underground tunnels outside legend says...

[j.mossoh]

A physical testament to the fact that without any amount of democratic legitimacy, even systems that purport to hasten equality can easily devolve into something more akin to feudalism. This is really a castle. Great video.

[FIGHTTIMEprod]

imagine living there alone and having to clean up, wipe the dust etc

[gizelop]

Due to its size, the cost of maintenance could be  helped in part if it was turned into  a university, shops, restarurants offices that serve the people whom the dictator suppressed and also as a tourist attraction and make some part of it a hotel for tourists.

[aasew]

It is just sad to see. I know many of the small kids from the orphanage, they did not even got propper food or clothes. They died because they was badly threated.

[UCSPanther]

This is pretty much Nicolae Ceasescu's Palace of Versailles.

[gorbachev-]

A slight snag, architecturally speaking, none of those buildings were brutalist. You can indeed consider the buildings including the palace of parliament akin to that of Stalinist Social Realism. A neo-classical approach that was perverted to a totalitarian narrative. Nevertheless, the video still gives us an indication as to how a supposed Communist enriched himself personally to the detriment of his people.

[alexrusu]

i like how non-roumanians dont undestund why this is the heaviest building.
it is 2 or 3 times the size under the ground, only second to pentagon as security, space and heaviness.
You can drop a fat boy on it, and everyone below, will just flip you of.

[marcomd]

At least is not bad at all. I do not want to offend anyone, I respect the Romanians, and their country, but even though it is considered a monstruosity, I have to admit that they built a beautiful palace, not comparable to Italian architecture, but not bad at all. I think we cannot judge by saying this palace is not magnificent because it was built by the Dictator, and the Romanian people. Look at St Peterburgh, it is really beautiful to see and to visit, but for building that, it took many time, money and soul of thousands of people, and Russia was really poor. But I, as tourist, love the city even though I am walking literary on the death bodies which are located underground. Same thing for London, Paris, Berlin and many other cities.

[luckluck]

The Palace of the Parliament is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. Located on Dealul Arsenalului in central Bucharest (Sector 5), it is the second largest administrative building in the world, after The Pentagon in the United States, with 84 m high, an area of 365, 000 m2 and is composed of 23 bodies. Having a volume of 2, 550, 000 m3, it is also the third most massive building in the world, after Cape Canaveral in Florida and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, Mexico. In terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world - la Casa Poporului.

[peterhildebrandt]

The best thing for this place is to go the way of Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. That had been a playground for the super rich billionaires -- in today's dollars -- at the turn of 19th century. Instead of making it into a museum, they turned it into a beautiful liberal arts college. People touring the city can appreciate its beauty, students can get an education in one of the loveliest old cities in North America.

[dazewithus]

I wish we had gone inside while we were there! It’s beautiful. Great video 😁

[mr.president]

I will definitely visit there, that is marvellous

[jaihind]

The mention of Nadia Komenski - first one to score 10 out of 10 at Olympic games in Montreal - brought back old memories. God bless her.

[TimSlee]

3000 people died to build this? That's sad.

[tvoommen]

Ironically, in spite of all his atrocities the dictator will be remembered for several generations just because of this grand edifice....Symbols of communist rule were demolished everywhere else but no one will want this one destroyed. Think about hagia sophia of istambul - the enemies maintained it as place of worship !

[RPUXO]

Amazing palace. I was wondering if the real reason the dictator was deposed and executed was because other would be dictators wanted to take possession of all this ?

[botatobias]

To be fair, many well-known capitals have a certain building/monument to make them stand out. What did Bucharest have... Before this?

[ThatGuyyZeus]

Seeing how his wife talked in their final minutes.. this was all her idea

[nataljazurakovska]

Спасибо, видео супер! Дворец достоин королей! Только Чаушеску совсем не король, а солдат, укравший генеральские