Bucharest’s Palace of the Parliament — the largest building in Europe — is a monument to one dictator’s megalomania. (Cameron Hewitt/ Rick Steves’ Europe) ...

Bucharest's Palace of the Parliament — the largest building in Europe — is a monument to one dictator's megalomania. Photo by Cameron Hewitt.

Parliament Palace (Palatul Poporului) is ranked #0 out of 9 things to do in Bucharest. See pictures and our review of Parliament Palace (Palatul Poporului).

Ask me what the world’s biggest building is, or tallest, or largest by square area, and I probably have a guess for you. I’ll rifle through a mental Rolodex of architectural postcards and toss out the ...

Standing tall in Bucharest is Romania’s Parliament, originally built to provide a home for the communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. The grand building can be found at the end of the Uniri’s ...

The joviality continued into the evening, when Ceausescu put on a splashy state dinner in the marbled palace of Rumania’s kings.

The Russian leader had been planning to go to Bucharest anyway, but Ceausescu’s startling speech must have made the trip much more compelling.

In the early 1980s Ceausescu ordered 80,000 to 100,000 people to abandon their homes in downtown Bucharest to make way for construction of the House of the Republic.

The palace is the country’s most visible, most widely reviled symbol of the excesses of Ceausescu’s 24-year rule. Before it could be built, one of the most historic sections of old Bucharest ...