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Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, where the House of Commons and House of Lords still debate inside a castle that has been burned twice and rebuilt once. The eleventh-century Westminster Hall survived the 1834 fire and was woven into Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin’s Gothic Revival palace, whose ornate chambers have housed argument, ceremony and national memory since the 13th century. Big Ben strikes above that old hall like a reminder that the building is not a museum but a living instrument of power.

Palace of Westminster is shown as a castle on the public map of City of Westminster. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Originally built in the 11th century as a royal palace by William the Conqueror, the Palace of Westminster became a significant seat of English governance and later the British Parliament. It is important as a historic and political symbol of the United Kingdom's constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system.

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