3D print the Palace of the Parliament
A free, printable model of the Palace of the Parliament with the avenues and green grounds of central Bucharest around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Palace of the Parliament
Standing on top of Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, Romania's national capital, the Palace of the Parliament is where the country's Parliament sits. It was first designed in Communist times, and it has also been known as the People's House. The building is 84 m (276 ft) high and reaches 92 m (302 ft) below ground. Its floor area is 365,000 m² (3,930,000 sq ft). It is described as the heaviest building in the world, at about 4,098,500 tonnes, and as the biggest civilian administrative building anywhere.
Chief architect Anca Petrescu designed and supervised the building with a team of about 700 architects. Construction took 13 years, from 1984 to 1997, in modernist Neoclassical forms with socialist realism in mind. Nicolae Ceaușescu, the president of Communist Romania, ordered it, and building it meant demolishing part of the old city center. The building has eight underground levels, and the deepest holds a nuclear bunker.
Both chambers of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, are housed in the palace, along with the Constitutional Court, three museums and an international conference center. Two of the museums are the Museum of the Palace and the National Museum of Contemporary Art. The interior, made up of 23 sections, is known for its ornate decoration, and the palace hosted the 20th NATO summit in 2008.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 650 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 22 mm | 1:4,063 |
| 200 mm | 28 mm | 1:3,250 |
| 256 mm | 35 mm | 1:2,539 |
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- A wide stack of blocks
- The palace is a broad stack of stepped, rectangular blocks, so it prints wide and low. Print slowly for clean flat tops, and choose a larger print size to keep the window detail visible.
- Tiny window slots
- Thin dashes and small window frames mark the facades. They shrink fast at small sizes, so choose a larger print or Full detail, with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
- The Palace of the Parliament is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Palace of the Parliament takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Palace of the Parliament is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Palace of the Parliament STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Palace of the Parliament grows with the print: about 22 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
