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APCGC took all the necessary steps in order to organize the G.A. in the Palace of Parliament Bucharest, in “Nicolae Iorga” Hall. The distance between the “Henri Coanda” airport and Bucharest city is about 16 km and takes less than 60 minutes.

The Palace of Parliament can be reached either by subway or by other means of public transportation.

Parliament Palace

The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world's largest civilian administrative building (The Pentagon is the largest overall), most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building.

The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceausescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power. Nicolae Ceausescu named it the House of the Republic (Casa Republicii), but many Romanians call it the People's House (Casa Poporului).

Description

The Palace measures 270 m by 240 m, 86 m high, and 92 m under ground. It has 1,100 rooms, 2 underground parking garages and is 12 stories tall, with four additional underground levels currently available and in use, with another four in different stages of completion.

The structure combines elements and motifs from multiple sources, in an eclectic neoclassical architectural style. The building is constructed entirely of materials of Romanian origin. Estimates of the materials used include one million cubic meters of marble from Transylvania, most from Ruschita; 3,500 tonnes of crystal — 480 chandeliers, 1,409 ceiling lights and mirrors were manufactured; 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze for monumental doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals; 900,000 m³ of wood (over 95% domestic) for parquet and wainscotting, including walnut, oak, sweet cherry, elm, sycamore maple; 200,000 m² of woollen carpets of various dimensions (machines had to be moved inside the building to weave some of the larger carpets); velvet and brocade curtains adorned with embroideries and passementeries in silver and gold.

History since 1989

Since 1997, the building has housed Romania's Chamber of Deputies, which had previously been housed in the Palace of the Patriarchy; the Romanian Senate joined them there in 2005, having previously been housed in the former Communist Party Central Committee building. The Palace also contains a massive array of miscellaneous conference halls, salons, etc. used for a wide variety of other purposes.

In 2002, Costa Gavras shot scenes of Amen movie in the Palace to represent the Vatican palaces.

In 2003-2004 a glass annex was built[citation needed], alongside external elevators. This was done to facilitate access to the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) opened in 2004 inside the west wing of the Palace of the Parliament, and to the Museum and Park of Totalitarianism and Socialist Realism, also opened in 2004.

The cafeteria for use of the legislators has been refurbished. Also in the building is the headquarters of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI), an organization focused on regional cooperation among governments against cross-border crime.

There are public tours organized in a number of languages.

In 2008, the Palace hosted the 20th NATO summit.

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Nicolae Iorga Hall

The room is decorated with the same timber ceiling and walls, predominantly oak. Casetoanele formed between wood poles are covered with silk material that are made and curtains.

Furniture is art-deco (style monument in the mid '20-'30, long considered as an extension of Art Nouveau and Jugendstil's time), and the walls are decorated with works of artists Margaret Sterian - stylized flowers "and" Flowers, Nicolae Blei - "Flowers and Flower Table", "Autumn in Andriasu", "Flowers" and "spring Andriasu" (post-impressionist), Gheorghe Simion - "Chrysanthemums with violin" ( realism art from 1900) and Zamfir Dumitrescu - "flowers in autumn landscape" (Flemish painting style).

Other Info

The walls are covered in marble from Gura Vaii and Antigua (green marble) brought from Iraq; the doors are of massive walnut wood. The furniture is dressed in leather and has all modern conference facilities. Other halls have names dedicated to historic events - The National Unification Room, or personalities: Ion IC Bratianu (liberal prime minister of the XX century), Nicolae Iorga (historian, writer and politician of the XX century), Nicolae Balcescu (liberal politician of the XIX century).

There are no less than 5.100 rooms in the entire building!
The Nicolae Iorga hall is decorated in a German style to imitate the interior of Peles Castle from Sinaia (built by King Carol in the Carpathians).
All the carpets are manually worked at Cisnadie in one piece or assembled on place.Many lobbies have walls with Ruschita marble.

The largest chandelier weights 5 tons, but there are 2800 others. To light it, the chandelier uses 7000 light bolts.

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