#andorra

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well, ive officially read my first book in german, even if i did have to struggle my way through it, and boy oh boy was it a doozy

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deutsche sprache, schwere sprache

(aber eine interessante sprache!)

• Estonia’s Riigikogu meets in the historic Toompea Castle. While there have been buildings on this site since the earliest days of the Estonian republic in the 800s CE, the current building was built in one of the castle’s courtyards in 1922.
  
• India’s Sansad Bhavan was originally opened in 1927 under the British for the Imperial Legislative Council – a four-member council that was India’s legislative body until 1950.
• Taiwan may have the oldest legislative building in continuous use in Asia. Their Legislative Yuan Building was completed in 1919.
• The Netherlands’ statehouse, the Binnenhof, was first begun in the early 1230s when it was a walled keep for a local count. The Binnenhof has been utilized for government purposes on and off since then.
• The Maryland State House is the oldest United States state capitol building still in continuous legislative use. It was first use by the state legislature in 1772. That pre-dates the United States!
• Tunisia’s Bardo Palace was first built sometime in the 1200s. Today it houses both the national legislature and (appropriately) the national museum.
• Andorra’s legislative building has been in use since 1702 and still features a kitchen, from a time when the legislature was not allowed to leave the building till agreement was reached.