The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is the world’s largest palace by both floor space and volume. The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, is one of the largest palaces in the world by floor area. The title of “world’s largest royal domain,” as measured by the total area of the property, goes to Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
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The world’s largest palace by both floor space and volume is the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania. The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, with 1000 rooms on 13 levels, and over 130,000 square meters of floor space, is one of the largest palaces in the world by floor area. The title of “world’s largest royal domain,” as measured by the total area of the property, goes to Balmoral Castle in Scotland. The Palace of Westminster was built in the Middle Ages as a royal residence. It served as the principal residence of the monarch until 1522, when Henry VIII moved his court to the newly acquired Palace of Whitehall. Several palaces are former royal residences that reached their current grand sizes after they ceased being used as royal residences, and were converted to some other purpose. The Louvre Palace was relegated to the role of displaying royal collections and hosting administrative services, and went through several renovations, expansions and additions, including a significant one as an imperial palace in the 19th century.
It reached its current size of 2,260 square feet as the modern Louvre Museum’s Winter Palace and its annexes were not expanded after the Russian Revolution, but the State Hermitage Museum also occupies other buildings which add to the size of the palace. That includes the Old and Winter Palace, which were used by the Imperial Court and are the same part of the complex as the Winter Palace. However, the modern Winter Palace contains 1,978 square feet of floorspace as royal residence, and is centered on the Winter palace, which is 1,622 square feet in size. That is the same as the Old Winter Palace in Russia, which contains 645,835 square feet. It is also the most expensive administrative building and heaviest building. The Royal Palace of Madrid in Spain is the largest royal palace by floor space. It contains 3,418 rooms and more than 2,552,120 square feet by volume. It was the palace intended to be used by Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania’s supreme ruler and dictator.
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