List of the largest castles and palaces

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This list ranks the largest castles , palaces and castles in the world according to their usable area . All buildings or building complexes that were built for a sovereign or other members of the nobility are recorded.

The Parliament Palace in Bucharest (with a floor area of ​​65,000 m² and a built-up area of ​​365,000 m²) and the Turkish Presidential Palace Cumhurbaşkanlığı Sarayı (with a property area of ​​around 210,000 m² and a building area of ​​40,000 m²) in Ankara are therefore not recorded .

If the ranking was not based on the usable area , but rather the area enclosed by the palace walls, the Forbidden City in Beijing would be the largest palace in the world with 728,000 m² (usable area: 150,000 m²).

rank Surname Country place Usable area image
1 Hofburg Austria Vienna 240,000 m²
(= area of ​​the area)
Hofburg Palace
2 Palais du Louvre France Paris 210,000 m²
Louvre Palace
3 Istana Nurul Iman  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 200,000 m²
Istana Nurul Iman Palace
4th Apostolic Palace Vatican city Vatican city 162,000 m²
Apostolic Palace
5 Forbidden City  China Beijing 150,000 m²
Forbidden City
6th Marienburg (Ordensburg) Poland Malbork 143,000 m²
Malbork Castle
7th Palacio Real Spain Madrid 135,000 m²
Royal Palace of Madrid
8th Quirinal Palace Italy Rome 110,500 m²
Quirinal Palace in Rome
9 Abdeen Palace Egypt Cairo 108,000 m²
Abdeen Palace
10 Falaknuma Palace India Hyderabad 93,971 m²
Falaknuma Palace
11 Palace of Venaria Reale Italy Venaria Reale 80,000 m²
Palace of Venaria
12 Buckingham Palace United Kingdom London 77,000 m²
Buckingham Palace
13 Castle of Prague Czech Republic Prague 70,000 m²
Prague Castle
13 Topkapi Palace Turkey Istanbul 70,000 m²
Topkapi Palace
14th Palace of Versailles France Versailles 63,154 m²
Palace of Versailles
15th Stockholm Castle Sweden Stockholm 61,210 m²
Royal Palace of Stockholm
16 Palace of Caserta Italy Caserta 61,000 m²
Reggia di Caserta
17th Winter palace Russia St. Petersburg 60,000 m²
The Winter Palace
17th Mannheim Castle Germany Mannheim 60,000 m²
Mannheim Palace
18th Windsor Castle United Kingdom Windsor 54,835 m²
Windsor Castle
19th Christiansborg Palace Denmark Copenhagen 51,660 m²
Christiansborg Palace
20th Hampton Court Palace United Kingdom Richmond upon Thames 47,330 m²
Hampton Court
21st Berlin Palace Germany Berlin 45,000 m²
Reconstruction of the Berlin Palace
22nd Grand Seraglio Lebanon Beirut 39,970 m²
Hamidiyyeh Clock Tower
23 Palácio Nacional de Mafra  Portugal Mafra 39,948 m² Mafra May 2013-2.jpg
24 Royal Palace (Brussels) Belgium Brussels 33,027 sq m
Bruxels April 2012 - 4.jpg
25th Pitti Palace Italy Florence 32,000 m²
Pitti Palace
26th Frederiksborg Castle Denmark Hillerod 31,290 m²
Frederiksborg Palace
27 Schönbrunn Castle Austria Vienna 31,056 m²
Schönbrunn, Viedeň, Rakúsko
28 El Escorial Spain San Lorenzo de El Escorial 30,658 m²
El Escorial
29 Kronborg Denmark Helsingor 28,724 m²
Kronborg
30th Amalienborg Denmark Copenhagen 26,500 m²
Amalienborg Palace
31 Great Kremlin Palace Russia Moscow 24,100 m²
Grand Kremlin Palace

Individual evidence

  1. Turkish Presidential Palace: 1000 illegal rooms for Erdogan. In: Spiegel Online , October 29, 2014, accessed on July 7, 2019.
  2. ^ The Forbidden City, Beijing - All You Want to Know. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
  3. The usable area of ​​the built-up area of ​​the Hofburg is many times larger, as each wing is at least two, but mostly three-story and higher:
  4. ^ Largest residential palace. Retrieved July 6, 2019 (UK English).
  5. Rita Schulze: World records: Part 20: The largest castles in the world . December 13, 2009 ( welt.de [accessed July 6, 2019]).
  6. ^ The Palace. October 17, 2016, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  7. Berlin Palace website. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .