Top 10 Bucharest Tourist Destinations : Bucharest, or Little Paris, is a city in Romania that is world-famous for its ancient history and beautiful architecture that blends modernity and history. Within the city limits you can see a range of attractions, especially destinations with a historical character, such as churches and palaces. Below we show the best tourist destinations in Bucharest, Romania.
1 The Old Town
The Old Town is home to the oldest buildings in Bucharest, many of which date back to the 15th and 16th centuries. Throughout history, this area served as the seat of princes, and a center of commerce and worship. During the last few years, part of this city has been well restored to look as it was when it was first built.
2 Palace of the Parliament
The Parliament Palace is one of the top tourist attractions in Bucharest, being the second largest administrative building in the world after the Pentagon. In terms of the materials used to build the parliament, it is the heaviest manna in the world. Parliament has more than 3,000 rooms on an area of 330,000 square meters.
3 Romanian Athenaeum
A theater with a height of 41 meters, dating back to the nineteenth century, designed by the French architect Albert Galeron. The building includes a music hall that can accommodate about 600 people, and about 70 huge murals. Today, this theater hosts a number of events, including the annual George Enescu International Music Festival.
4 Stavropoleos Church
The small and beautiful Stavropoleos Church was built in 1724 by a Greek monk. Inside the church there is a lot of sculpture lined with columns, with exquisite stone and wood carvings and a range of Roman and Byzantine elements and frescoes.
5 Old Princely Court - The Old Princely Court
In the Old Town, Old Princely Court was the stately seat of the princes. Including Vlad Vlad III the Impaler, also known as "Dracula". Here the visitor finds a statue of the infamous Roman prince, with court walls and many arches and columns where people were tortured.
6 Revolution Square
Revolution Square gained its name after it set the last scene of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania. On December 21, 1989, a coup occurred with the help of a crowd of more than 100,000 people, forcing the Communist Party leader to flee, but he was soon caught, to be executed along with his wife in a scene broadcast on television.
7 Arc de Triomphe – Arcul de Triumf
In 1922, the first triumphal arch was built in Bucharest, and it was at that time made of wood and intended for Romanian soldiers who fought in the First World War. In the year 1936, it was rebuilt by the architect Peter Antonescu at a height of 27 meters, this time it was built of granite.
8 National Museum of Art of Romania
A former royal palace that today serves as a Roman Museum housing the most complete collection of Roman art, including medieval and modern art. Founded in 1948, the museum houses more than 100,000 works of art, including paintings by the country's most famous artists, such as Theodore Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu.
9 Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum
An open-air museum founded in 1936, it houses more than 300 traditional buildings that visitors can move around freely. The museum also includes barns made of straw, some churches, mills and many others. All these Germans were dismantled from various parts of Romania and transported to this place.
10 National Museum of Romanian History
A museum originally built for the Romanian postal service. Since 1970, there are 60 rooms in the museum displaying the country's finest historical exhibits dating from prehistoric times to modern times. Thousands of gold items and Neolithic artifacts can be found in this museum, including jewelry belonging to the royal families.
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