The Parliamentary Palace of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is located on the hillside of the southwest city of Bucharest, formerly known as the People's Palace. It was built during Ceausescu's reign with billions of dollars in civilian cream, which is said to be the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon in the United States. It was the most unpopular project Ceausescu did in his later years. But now the Palace of Parliament is seen as the crystallization of the industriousness and wisdom of the Romanian people and as the greatest building of the country in the twentieth century.