Government Building sights in Greece
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New Bouleuterion
To the south of the Temple of Hephaestus was the New Bouleuterion (Council House), where the Senate (originally created by Solon) met, while the heads of government met to the south at the circular Tholos.
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Loggia
A little north of the Municipal Art Gallery is the attractively reconstructed 17th-century Loggia, a Venetian version of a gentleman's club, where the male aristocracy came to drink and gossip. It is now the town hall.
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Parliament
Greece's Parliament was originally the royal palace designed by the Bavarian architect Von Gartner and built between 1836 and 1842. In 1935 it became the seat of the Greek parliament and it was from the palace balcony that the syntagma (constitution) was declared on 3 September 1843. The royal family moved to a new palace, which became the presidential palace upon the abolition of the monarchy in 1974. Only the library is open to the public.
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