@Comrade Shlomo Von shackelberg Wouldn't be a video featuring Hungary witouth some romanian chauvinists appearing in the comments.

Same. Agreed.

@Comrade Shlomo Von shackelberg i guess u live in a 30 storey panel building in bucharest with little to no sunlight in your kennel, i mean flat🤭 and cant accept the fact that budapest cant be copy-pasted😏😏

@Comrade Shlomo Von shackelberg that's just fine. If I've been only in district VIII I'd think the same, but I know that ppl never travel without their culture, and wherever they are, they always find their own kind, and there you are, a fine example. If you take an advice, next time you're in Budapest, try not to stick to your own and explore the whole city, not only that one shit part of it, you'll be amazed how beautiful it is, especially around spring. If you need advices where to go, feel free to ask. Oh, and btw, that thousand years advantage Budapest has over București can make an old city has its own smells ;)

@Comrade Shlomo Von shackelberg if you think Budapest smells like shit, then travel to India first. Budapest is a heaven.

The library is my favourite part. The view from the bridge to Gatineau is beautiful with the recent exterior renovations completed in 2006.

Library Clerk, Man of Action! It's not often librarians and heroics are mentioned in the same sentence.

@@flamencoprof But they should be! They often save many valuable things.

@@NewTracks As a life-long reader and childhood denizen of actual paper libraries, I couldn't agree more. I always feel betrayed when I find a book officially stamped as "Withdrawn" in a second-hand bookshop.

It does look stunning as do most of them.

My wife and I did the tour of it back in 2015. My favourite parts were the library, and the main rotunda which has all the symbols of each province and territory carved into the columns. And the company I worked for at the time supplied a lot of steel anchors and reinforcement pieces for the renovations that were being done on the West Block at the time

I live just down the road and it’s such lovely scenery

@@proximolight6881 lucky!

I pass in front everyday and don’t even look at it anymore

Pretty common and anybody can do this, you just have to pay for it. I have been to many a reception for various functions. Centre Block hosts all kinds of events. Every wedding I have ever been to has had an open bar.

The true controversy is over Anca Petrescu's age..😂

@@SwaggerIsAVirtue I can't speak for our Eastern neighbors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So you never clicked then?

@@nni9310 nah, the bar for being faster than them is very, very low. :D

🤣🤣🤣

Don't forget the Palais Bourbon, which currently houses the French parliament. Neoclassical isn't my favourite architectural style, but the Palais Bourbon, with its Napoleonic facade redesign, is one of the best examples of it in the world.

I'd never seen it before today. Impressive!

agreed. i wasn't happy when i heard that comment

„English Empire“ is wrong. England is a part of Britain

Agreed

Can someone explain why? I find the comment interesting but don’t know enough to understand it.

@@kellym3610just to clarify I'm English. Basically we bullied the Welsh for 800 years, got into a dysfunctional relationship with Scotland and tried to treat Ireland like a cheap whore. After we had done that for a few hundred years we ended up calling ourselves the United Kingdom and made the British empire by doing the same thing to the rest of the world. Our Celtic cousins have good reason to dislike being called English.

Almost everything you see as the UK parliament is neo-gothic rebuilding after a fire in the 19th century. Very little of the medieval palace of Westminster survives

​@@golddragonette7795 However there are certain “sections” of the medieval building remaining: - The extremely grand 11th century “Westminster Hall”; built 1097-1099 - although its huge wooden ceiling was added in 1393 (one of the finest in Europe and a masterpiece of medieval woodwork), - The 14th century “Jewel Tower” (built 1365), - The two storey “Cloisters” and tiny “Chapter House” (early 16th century) of St Stephen’s Chapel, - The underground chapel of “St Mary Undercroft” (13th/ 14th century - with 19th century decoration). The rest was indeed destroyed by the fire of 1834. It is thought that a palace has stood on the site since the reign of ‘Cnut the Great’ (1016-1035), although most of the present building dates to between 1840-1860 (with certain sections unfinished till 1876). It remains to this day one of the world’s greatest neo-Gothic buildings, and for this reason is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (only the Hungarian Parliament building, of the 5 mentioned above, holds the same title). I’m sure it will no doubt be discussed in its own separate video.

I suspect it's not a side project!

Like enough to put small country inside

Good suggestion!

I've driven through there so many times! Make sure you pee before heading through 😹

Bigger than the Australian one?

Great idea!

He pronounced it like "dem douchen volke" hahahaha

Made worse by the fact that he pronounced Reichstag and Bundestag quite well. Come on, you can do better...

Most ugliest building in the world.

@@kfraser3783 The MI6 building in London is far worse.

@@doomguy1001 Yeah it’s not pretty but at least it looks like an actual building. The Australian parliament is ridiculous, gaudy and ugly. Desperately trying to hard to be grand but overall the effect is poor and just appears garish and brutal.

none. it was actually made by "slaves" mainly political prisoners and people that were in prison. mostly people who were against the communist regime.

lots

@@Dave_thenerd oh im sorry i didnt know that. Even if im from romania and i fucking know what im talking about.

@@youngshatterhand810 what the hell are you talking about?

@@Sideprojects ALL OF IT

There's a 1/3 sized copy of St. Peter's in Montreal.

I'm German so it sounded like " Shower Clouds " instead of German People xD

He also said Dhaka as Dakar

*Binnenhof, but yeah. :)

@@sonicgoo1121 exactly! Excuse my Freudian slip of the tongue.

Well, technically the Binnenhof isn’t the oldest paliament building. The oldest parliament building still in use today is probably the Alþingi in Iceland, founded in 930. (The Binnenhof was founded in 1230).

@@h-Qalziel I was talking about the parliament building, not parliament itself. The Icelandic parliament building dates back to the 19th century and not the 10th. That makes the Binnenhof building complex older.

​@@MLWitteman The UK Parliament building (the Palace of Westminster) contains parts that are older; the biggest of which is “Westminster Hall” (which was constructed between 1097-1099 - although the wooden ceiling, a masterpiece in medieval woodwork, was added in 1393). Of course the majority of the building dates to between 1840-1860, but it does actually contain quite a few surviving elements of the old medieval palace, that date to the 11th-15th centuries.

legend

The trans continental railroad would make a more interesting megaproject IMHO...

Parliament is literally at the start of the Rideau Canal in the Ottawa River, not even a mention!

I would love to learn about that as well. Let's vote for both!

@@nikolaaswright6028 before covid I was a tour guide and I loved telling people about the trans continental railroad and great and interesting canadian historical figures like peyto, jerry potts, tom wilson, macleod, chief crowfoot and such. The canadian biographics vid that would be worth hundreds of thousands of views would be the black grizzly of whiskey creek.

You’re not missing much to be honest

Canada's so big. Europe's countries are much smaller, the capitals cities closer together. Parliament is amazing! Never understood ppl who say things like: "You're not missing much".

I was an explosives expert for a while, that definitely opened doors for me 😁

@@MisterAndrewBuckley I just actually forget it is even there, I only ever pass by that side of town. I do want to check out the Diefenbunker though

St Stephen’s Tower

The UK Houses of Parliament building is currently going through major renovations. The Elizabeth Tower (often incorrectly called 'Big Ben' which is actually the name of the bell inside the clock tower) has been covered in scaffolding for a long time as it undergoes an £80 million restoration, you can watch a great video by the B1M: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6mnjZSarpnUlKs.html They are meant to start a £4 billion restoration of the rest of the building soon, but it keeps getting pushed back as it is a lot of money!

capital, with an a

@@juliansmith4295 capital and capitol are two different words

@@MohammedAli-hl4mr Why are you telling me what I was pointing out to someone else?

@@juliansmith4295 sorry, I misinterpreted what you were saying

@@MohammedAli-hl4mr That's cool of you. No problem.