Maybe the best-known landmark of the city is the Palace of the Parliament, originally called the House of the Republic. This is a gigantic building, which is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records. The size of it is the reason why it holds three world records: it is both the largest and most expensive civilian building (only the Pentagon is larger, but that is considered a military building) and the heaviest one. The area of this palace is just less than 65,000 square meters; it has a [...]