How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@fgraver Oh yes. Quebec has such an interesting special status. I think their rights are directly ingrained in the founding constitution or something?

But in the end Quebec is just a province in a federal system though. Wales etc are countries making up unitary state

[jarjan@mederland.nl]

@Pepijn
One, but not in my home country (well ok, I did live in the UK when I visited the houses of Parliament).

[gspeed0689@mapstodon.space]

@Pepijn hooray, I'm a statistical outlier

I've been to the
●US Capitol
●Binnenhof
●Westminster
●Japanese Diet
○Paris
○Madrid
○Copenhagen
○Brussels
●Rome
○Luxembourg
○Yerevan, Armenia

●went inside
○didnt go inside but was close enough to appreciated significance/architecture

[thias@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn oh, national parliaments? Only one I guess…

[gspeed0689@mapstodon.space]

@Pepijn Not the name of the building, just used the Italian word for Rome instead of English

[monniauxd@social.sciences.re]

@Pepijn do you count the legislatures of the US states?

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@MonniauxD Nope, not national parliaments.

If lower governments like those count I'm sure many people go in double digits

[monniauxd@social.sciences.re]

@Pepijn if a national parliament has two houses in separate buildings, do they count 1 or 2

[dtl@8bitorbust.info]

@Pepijn I've been to the parliament buildings of England, Scotland and Germany.

I wanted a debate in England, watched another visitor get shouted at for sitting in an MPs seat in Scotland and used the bathroom in the German building.

[avatastic@avatastic.uk]

@Pepijn I had the obligatory London school trip, with a visit to Westminster in year 6.

I've since attended a conference at Senedd.

[dtl@8bitorbust.info]

@Pepijn I visited in about 2002. I don't really remember much about the visit.

[o_o@mastodon.nu]

@Pepijn actually only one I think, and it was the Danish one not my home country Sweden. Since I work right next to the Norwegian parlament I guess I should swing by there at some point and make it 2.

[wakejagr@hachyderm.io]

@Pepijn

I was born in the United States, and grew up on the east coast. I've been to Washington, DC, but never to the capital building or the white house.

When I visited a girlfriend who lived in Ottawa, she took me to the national parliament buildings there. Later, we married, lived in Ottawa and often took out of town visitors to the capital complex.

Now we live in the US again, within a day's drive of DC, but I still have not been to the US Capital building or the White House.

So, interestingly enough, I fit your guess, with the addendum that I have visited another country's parliament buildings, but not my own.

[colinrosenthal@babka.social]

@Pepijn I think the only one I’ve been inside is Stortinget in Oslo.

[wnd@fosstodon.org]

@Pepijn I have counted the EU parliament as one. Are the Welsh Senedd and Holyrood in Scotland "national parliaments?

By visited do you mean "go through security to the visitors gallery", "gone to the shop/café" or "gone to the physical location"?

[warpinwolf@mastodon.egroc.de]

@Pepijn inside the building or just passing by on the outside?

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@Pepijn I answered positively but and took it to mean more widely: I've been quite frequently to Portcullis House to see my MP, but not the building on the other side of the road where they gather to pass legislation ('Palace of Westminster').

[cloudedjudge@hachyderm.io]

@Pepijn I've visited the Reichstag and the New Zealand parlement. Never bin into any of the many parlement buildings my own country has.

[kalisz79@mastodon.com.pl]

@mertzigzag I know whom to ask; please let me reach out to my colleague there.
@Pepijn

[kalisz79@mastodon.com.pl]

@mertzigzag Just checked directly with my colleague who works there - unfortunately it is as you wrote, groups only. So the only option for the non-Polish speaking visitor is to join some organized group.
@Pepijn