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The Palace of Westminster has been the seat of the two House of Parliament
since 1512. The two chambers of Parliament are called the House of
Lords and the House of Commons. The Commons is made up of elected
Members of Parliament of different political parties. The party with
the most Members forms the government and its leader becomes the Prime
Minister. The Commons formulates legislation that is first debated
in both Houses before becoming law. The faux-Gothic building was
designed by Victorian architect Sir Charles Barry. The Tower topped
by the Union Jack British flag, contains over 1.5 million acts of
Parliament passed since 1497and is called Victoria Tower. In the
surrounding area around the Houses of Parliament, one can see the
equestrian statue of Richard I depicting the 12th-century Coeur de Lion
by Carlo Manochetti (1860) and The Burghers of Calais,
a cast of Auguste Rodin's original statue in Paris.
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