Second in size only to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, The Palace of the Parliament, with its spacious surroundings of 508,000 square meters is registered in The Guinness Book of World Records under the chapter, 'Administrative Buildings'.

The interior halls occupy approximately 2000 square meters.

The building itself measures 270 m in length and 240 m in width. The impressive height of the Arch of Defense is 86 meters and its volume is estimated to be 2,550,000 cubic meters.

It has 12 floors, and more than 1,000 rooms along with innumerable entry rooms and living rooms, some of them with 20 m high ceilings.

Immense galleries, and about sixty reception rooms…

Hundreds of architects and thousands of workers (more than 200,000) coming from all areas of the country, built this impressive edifice within 5 years.

Monumental staircases and immense corridors…

"Normally" this panorama was reserved for the dictator Ceausescu, who, from his office on the first floor, wished to dominate the great square and the Victory of Socialism Avenue (today known as Union Avenue).