Hungarian Parliament building – Budapest

Looking across the Danube towards the Hungarian Parliament building illuminated by golden lights at night.

During the construction of the Hungarian Parliament building, from 1885 to 1904, around 1000 men worked on the building and one of the criteria for the work was to exclusively use Hungarian materials. Upon completion forty million bricks, half a million decorated stones, and forty kilos of gold had been used! An interesting fact about the parliament is that even to this day the building has no air conditioning. During a heat wave ice is actually brought in and placed in the air vents, thus cooling the air.