City Break in București - 2 zile superbe petrecute in Bucuresti

Bucharest city break description

Discover the highlights of Bucharest, through this exciting city break!

Day 1 of your Bucharest city break

Panoramic tour of Bucharest

Parliament Palace (also known as House of People)

is the second largest administrative building in the world after the Pentagon in the United States, according to Guinness World Records.
in terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world; For comparison, the building exceeds by 2% the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza
was built during the totalitarian regime of Nicolae Ceausescu
the building has 8 underground levels, the last one being an antiatomic bunker (the dictator feared a nuclear war), linked to the main state institutions by 20 km of catacombs.
as of 2008, the Palace of the Parliament is valued at €3 billion ($3.4 billion), making it the most expensive administrative building in the world
nowadays, the Palace of the Parliament is the seat of the Parliament of Romania

Romanian Athenaeum

this concert hall, located in the center of Bucharest, is a landmark of the Romanian capital city.
the Romanian Athenaeum hosts the George Enescu annual International Music Festival.
the overall style is neoclassical, with some romantic touches.
in front of the building there is a small park and a statue of one of the greatest Romanian poets, Mihai Eminescu.
a portion of the construction funds was raised by public subscription in a 28-year-long effort

National Museum of Art

it features collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family.
the modern Romanian collection features sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși, as well as paintings by Theodor Aman or Nicolae Grigorescu
the international collection includes works by Old Masters such as Domenico Veneziano, El Greco, Tintoretto, Jan van Eyck, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Rembrandt, as well as works by impressionists such as Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley.

Day 2 of your Bucharest city break

During day 2 of this Bucharest city break, you can make your own schedule, according to your tastes and interests. But if you really don’t know what to choose, we recommend you a visit at Village Museum, followed by a walk in Herastrau Park.

Visit at Village Museum & Walk in Herastrau Park

Village Museum

one of the greatest outdoor museums in the Balkans.
is an open-air ethnographic museum showcasing traditional Romanian village life: homesteads, churches and crucifixes, outbuildings, windmills, watermills, religious artifacts, tapestries etc.
located in the Herăstrău Park, the museum extends to over 100.000 m2 and contains 272 authentic peasant farms and houses from all over Romania.
some highlights of the Village Museum are the steep belfry of the wooden Maramureş church, the earth houses of Straja, dug into the ground and topped with thatched roofs, or the brightly painted dwellings of the Danube Delta.
the museum has a great souvenir shop and a stall selling traditional Romanian sweets and cakes.

Herastrau Park

Household and traditional gate with pigeonry on top

is a large park on the northern side of Bucharest, around Lake Herăstrău
the park is divided into two zones: a rustic or natural zone (where the Village Museum is located), and a public domain with open areas for recreation activities.
scattered across the park are an open-air theatre, a yacht club, a sports club, the Herăstrău Hotel and, adjunct to the park, the Diplomatic Club, featuring a golf course;

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