Sessions House on Parliament Street is Bermuda's Parliament building and Supreme Court, a handsome two-storey structure dating from 1819 with an Italianate clock tower grafted on in 1887. The House of Assembly meets in the upper chamber; the Supreme Court sits in the lower. Bermuda has had a representative assembly since 1620 — the third oldest in the world after Iceland's Althing and England's Parliament.
The building is open to visitors when the Assembly is not in session, and you can observe from the public gallery when it is. The surroundings — Parliament Street and the Cabinet Building opposite — form the compact civic heart of the city. The Cabinet Building, where Bermuda's Senate meets, is directly across the road and also worth a look.