£26!!!! As a place of historical and architectural significance the price seems reasonable, but I don’t think I have ever paid to go into a country or state’s main government building.
Coming from a relatively young country, It is CRAZY to me that people regularly live and work and walk past building that are 500, 800 or 1000 years old. The oldest buildings in my city are from the 1850’s and only a handful still stand.
It’s like you live in an interactive museum! 🥰
It's kind of odd, because many of our best museums are free to enter such as British Museum, National Gallery, Victoria and Albert, Tate Modern to name a few, yet a lot of other buildings charge an entrance fee. I went to Utah and Denver Capitol state buildings last year, and was pleased to find they're all free to enter, plus the decor inside was very impressive.
I get what you mean about buildings being very young in America. I remember I was on a city tour in New York many years ago, when the tour guide introduced us to a 200 year old building, there were a lot of oh's and ah's from the American tourist, fascinated by its age and history 😊