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Bucharest in the evening is an impressive spectacle. With this Bucharest walking tour, you’ll see the best of it and hear fascinating stories as the city twinkles into life.
Three centuries of royalty are waiting to be explored at Cotroceni Palace, which is now the official residence of the president of Romania. As a relatively hidden gem, a visit here is essential in Bucharest, but you must book ahead.
This four-hour guided tour will give you a heap of fresh insights on fascinating Bucharest. Get inside the Palace of Parliament – the second largest administrative building in the world – and visit the charming, open-air Village Museum to uncover the secret life of Romanian peasants.
Spend your afternoon at the footsteps of Sighișoara Citadel, the alleged birthplace of the world’s most famous vampire, while sipping wines from the local vineyards. (Don’t worry, your reds won’t have anything in common with Dracula’s.)
Would you dare lie on a bed of nails? How about turning yourself into a delicious snack? It’s a wacky world over at the Museum of Senses Bucharest, designed to let you smell, touch, taste, see, and hear your way around its many mind-boggling rooms.
Step into a realm where history and artistry intertwine, and a welcoming host eagerly awaits your arrival at the venue. After a friendly introduction to your knowledgeable guide, glide through the metal detectors and go on an adventure.
When you can see a building from space, you know it’s bound to be a statement up close. Get fast-track entrance and a guided tour of Bucharest’s Palace of the Parliament, and glimpse the extravagant architectural ambition and neoclassical style evident in every square inch of the world’s second-largest administrative building. Palatial is an understatement!
When anti-communist revolutionaries stormed the House of Ceauşescu in 1989, they were shocked by the opulence they found. While they went cold and hungry under the austere policies of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu, the country’s leaders lived like royalty.
The Crișana region has a 1,000-year history of producing high-quality wines. What better place to taste some than within one of Oradea’s most historic sites?
In the Museum of Jewish History in Oradea – housed in the Aachvas Rein Orthodox Synagogue, built in 1926 – you can take a chronological journey which tells the tale of the city’s Jewish population, from their establishment to the subsequent splitting of the community, and the tragic ghettoization and deportation during World War II.
The child in us seemed to have an unlimited sense of wonder, and there weren’t many places you felt it more than at the zoo. Amazing animals you’d only seen before in stories were there right in front of you – Oradea Zoo brings you back to that feeling with their cast of creatures.
History whispers to you at every turn in Oradea. Nowhere epitomizes this better than the (almost) indomitable Oradea Fortress, the centerpiece of this ancient Romanian city.
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