Meet Palace of Parliament, Bucharest
- Second largest building in the world after Pentagon (yes, larger than the pyramids)
- Guide said over 1000 rooms (other sources said 1100 which is more than 1000)
- 5 tonne chandelier with one person room inside it for cleaning
- 16m, 250kg drapes manually cleaned
- 4 tonne carpet, cleaning procedure unknown
~80m above ground
~90m below ground, including escape tunnels (for the paranoid) and allegedly 1 Olympic size swimming pool
~70% completed before 1989 revolution
>$3,000,000,000 USD price tag in today's dollars
- 3 crews working 24 hours a day took nearly 14 years to complete, apparently still not fully complete
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