Sites of Parliament
Parliaments in past and present.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Brasilia | Brasilia National Congress Building designed by Niemeyer. Houses the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Bridgetown | Parliament of Barbados | |
| Budapest | ||
| City of Luxembourg | Hotel de la Chambre des Députés, Luxembourgian Parliament | |
| Edinburgh | Scottish Parliament at Holyrood | |
| Florence | The Salone del Cinquecento at the Palazzo Vecchio served as the first parliament of unified Italy before the capital was moved to Rome | |
| Independence Hall | Congress Hall, part of inscribed WHS Independence Hall was used as the United State Congress from 1790-1800 | |
| Mudejar Architecture of Aragon | Aragon parliament at the Aljaferia in Zaragoza. | |
| Old City of Berne | Federal Palace of Switzerland | |
| Ouro Preto | Parliament House | |
| Paramaribo | ||
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | Palais Bourbon, seat of the French National Assembly | |
| Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | The Congreso de los diputados meets in the Palacio de las Cortes | |
| Prague | Valdstejn Palace (Czech Senate) and some buildings in the Lesser Town | |
| Québec | Parc Montmorency: was the location of the first and second Parliament buildings of the United Province of Canada between 1852 and 1866 (wiki fr) | |
| Rabat | Parliament building | |
| Regensburg | Regensburg was the regular meeting place of the permanent Imperial Diet (1663-1806) | |
| Residences of the Royal House of Savoy | Carignano Palace Italian Parliament 1861-1864 | |
| Rome | Madama palace (Italian Senate) and Montecitorio palace (Italian Chamber of Deputies) | |
| Royal Exhibition Building | 1st Parliament of Australia 9 May 1901 | |
| San Marino and Mount Titano | Consiglio Grande e Generale, Parliament of San Marino | |
| St. George, Bermuda | The State House (1620) in St. George's was the first purpose-built home of the House of Assembly, which then constituted the only chamber of the Parliament of Bermuda (wiki) | |
| St. Kilda | ||
| The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier | Chandigarh, Palace of Assembly - Legislatures of Punjab and Haryana. | |
| Thingvellir | ||
| Valletta | Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta is Malta Parliament | |
| Vienna | Austrian Parliament | |
| Westminster | ||
| White City of Tel-Aviv | The Independence Hall was the temporery seat of the Israeli parliament until the construction of the current Kneset in Jerusalem was completed. | |
| Willemstad | The Parliament of Curacao meets at Wilhelminaplein 4 in Punda. |
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