| rev:text | 	What a fantastic tour! This is SUCH an ornate building, with goldleaf everywhere. The tour took about an hour, which was helpful b/c alot of the parking nearby, including the spot right outside that I was in, had a one hour limit. Since it was winter, you could not tour the catwalks on the top and near the top of the rotundra, too bad. Marble and marble and more marble, I think it was in the Hearing Room where it was mined from the seabed of the Mediterrainian(sp?) Ocean. Lots of carved ivory scrollwork. Amazing big, heavy, ornate doors.
Wish the tour went into the basement, but as with most tours, sadly, no.
Here's some startling info: if they built this behemoth today, it would cost over $7 BILLION DOLLARS. Maybe should have saved some of their scheckels to fix some cruddy roads in need of resurfacing...
But a great tour, super impressive. |