The Parliament of Budapest is the largest parliament in Europe that is worth seeing both for the visit in English, well done, and for the beauty of the interior of the building and its history.
Ten thousand matches are used for the model at the entrance to the Budapest Parliament, which is accessed only by guided tour. You can only access the Parliament from the side facade, the first facade overlooking the Danube opens only when important people arrive, otherwise it remains closed.
I Tickets to access the Parliament of Budapest can be purchased at the Ethnographic Museum, the Palace which is located behind the Parliament and cost € 6 each. The entrances are done only with guided tours and with a guide who speaks your language also because inside the Parliament there are things to understand well in order not to transgress fundamental rules of respect and behavior.
- entrance times for visits are as follows: 10:15, 13:15, 14 and 15.30. The visit lasts approximately 45 minutes
The visit begins in the grand staircase where there is a bronze bust representing the architect of the Budapest Parliament who is the third largest building in the world. The Parliament was erected between 1885 and 1904; the most important investment of the time. All the materials used for the construction of the palace are Hungarian materials, assembled with Hungarian techniques and the whole cost almost double the expected sum.
With the money it would have been possible to build cities of 45 inhabitants. The Budapest Parliament is 265 meters long, has 27 entrances, 29 stairways, 691 local. Nearly 2000 people work in Parliament every day. In the middle of the hall, the coat of arms of Hungary, in force until 1920, then Hungary loses 2 thirds of its territories.
In the hall of the dome where there is crown Once the two chambers had joint meetings, but after the Second World War the Parliament became unicameral.
In the Hall of the magnates there is the largest handmade carpet Europe, one hundred thousand knots per square meter, 21 meters long and 7 meters wide. All 152 statues found in the building represent the people. The Paramento offers the second largest library in the country. Hungarians can go and consult all the books and go to see the sessions which are public. The Parliament is one of the most modern buildings in the world, after the Romans, Hungary also added remote heating, first to the Budapest Opera House and then to the Parliament, then the elevator and electricity, already at the beginning of the 900th century.
An interesting thing is the cigar holder. Outside the common meeting room are the numbered cigar racks, where the parliamentarians placed their cigar before entering to vote and discuss, this due to a huge fire that had developed in the early 900s.
A mention must certainly be made on the Sala della Corna, where it is impossible to photograph anything. There Hall of the Cupola is the room that houses the Corona to say Santo Stefano which is for the Hungarians a symbol of national identity, of their history and millenary culture. Together with the Holy Crown, the Scepter, the Crucigero Globe and the Sword are exhibited which together make up the royal insignia.
Here they are two guards around the clock who guard the crown day and night. At 8 in the morning all the guards here find themselves in contemplation in front of the crown, standing, for about an hour, then the actual guard begins. Five minutes of guard and then a change of position for the two standing guards, every fifteen minutes the two guards are replaced by two more.
