The Houses of Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, as seen from across the Danube River in Buda. Seven years after the creation of Budapest in the unification of three cities, construction of the palace began in 1885, to plans by Imre Steindl, and was completed in 1904. Architect Steindl, in a odd and cruel twist of fate, went blind before its completion.
The new-gothic palace, the largest Parliament in Europe, is 268 metres long and 96 metres high at its highest point. It consists of some 40 million bricks, half a million precious stones and 40 kg of gold. A red star that hung on the top of the dome during the communist era was taken down in 1990.
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