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The best way to fully appreciate Bucharest is to spend a full day of in-depth exploring. We stroll on the major boulevards, starting with the huge Civic Center, where we make a stop for a visit of the impressive Parliament Palace, up the Triumph Arch. Here we pay a visit to the open air Village Museum, were we can admire village architecture and crafts from all over Romania.
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Dracula Tour
Departure for Bucharest with a necessary stop to Bran Castle. With its medieval atmosphere, this castle came to be connected with the legend of Dracula the Vampire.
Transilvania Tour
Departure from Bucharest to Sibiu. Arrival and check-in at hotel in Sibiu. Walking city tour visiting Council Tower, Stairs and Gates, Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Cathedral, Lies' Bridge.
Prahova Valley Tour
visit of Sinaia mountain resort, including Peles Castle, lunch to Palace restaurant, sightseeing tour of Brasov, accommodation in Poiana/Sportul Hotel in Poiana Brasov.
Bucovina Monasteries Tour
Often called "the Sixtine Chapel of the East", Voronet's frescoes are painted in a unique shade of blue known to painters throughout the world as Voronet Blue. Sightseeing tour of Suceava , including the Citadel.
Brancusi Tour
... morning city tour of Tg.Jiu, focussing on the open air sculpural complex Constantin Brancusi : Table of Silence, Gate of Kiss and The Endless Column.
Romania_Basic_Tour
...Arrival in Bucharest: dinner at Terasa Doamnei (folk show from 18.30, Romanian pop music after 21.30). O/N at Central 3* hotel in Bucharest.
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Sighisoara is no doubt the best preserved fortified town in Transylvania, with a beautiful and authentic medieval architecture. Sighisoara lies in the valley of the Tarnava Mare river. The medieval stronghold was built on top of a hill, surrounded by forests, and known as the "Hill of the Fortress". The superb natural background against which Sighisoara was set made people call it "a gem of Transylvania" or "a pearl of the Tarnava river". Sighisoara has always fascinated its visitors by its picturesque by-streets, houses, bastions, towers, churches; besides, it is the birthplace of a both historical and legendary hero Dracula or Vlad the Impaler. Narrow lanes winding towards the fortress, church towers, donjons, covered stairs, arched and tunnel fronted houses make up a rich and unique out-door medieval museum.
Since 1992, every summer, Sighisoara becomes a meeting place for youth coming from Romania and from all over the world; they are trying to recreate and revive medieval ways of life by way of the festival of Medieval Art. Then, for a week-long, Sighisoara's old streets and places become lively with theatrical plays, concerts, films dancing, painting, games, conferences, contests and carnivals.
Historic Monuments and Cultural-Tourist Attractions
The most famous bastion of Sighisoara, which has actually become a landmark of the town, is the Clock Tower, also known under the name of the Council Tower, because it functioned as such between the 14th-16th centuries. The Clock Tower is 64 m high, of which 39.5 m are represented by the spire roof; it has four turrets and a wood covered wall walk for watching from the top floor.
In 1780, near the Clock Tower was built a covered walk called the Passage of the Old Ladies, which would shield the elderly against rain or snow falls.
The Citadel was built in the 12th century; it was strengthened and extended in the 15th century. Today it counts 164 houses and 13 public buildings.
The solid and variously coloured houses line up along narrow lanes; around them stands a 1 km long defence wall initially provided with 14 towers, of which only nine have been preserved to the day. The most impressive are the hexagonal Shoemakers' Tower, the Tailors' Tower and the Tinsmiths' Tower.
Near the Clock Tower, there is the Monastery Church built in the Gothic style. First attested in a document in 1298, the Monastery Church epitomizes all the changes undergone by the town along time. It formerly belonged to the Dominican monks who lived in a monastery placed north to the church. The monastery was demolished in 1888, and its place was taken by the present town hall.
Near the church, there is Vlad Dracul's House, where Vlad the Impaler's father, Vlad Dracul lived before he acceded to Wallachia's throne. Benefitting from the friendship Hungary's king, Sigismund I of Luxembourg, Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Devil) spent his youth at his court. He distinguished himself as a brave knight, punished some citadels rebelled against royal authority, and was bestowed the Order of the Dragon for his prowess against the Turks. Today his house hosts Dracula's restaurant on the ground-floor and a Museum of Weapons on the first floor. Beside various arms, one can see also an oil portrait of Michael Freiherr von Melas (1731-1806). Born in Sighisoara, he became a general of the Austrian mounted troops and fought against Napoleon Bonaparte's army at Marenga (June 14, 1880).
The Church on the Hill is Sighisoara's gem of architecture. A representative edifice for the Gothic style in Transylvania, it is placed on the School Hill (429 m high), and dominates the town. The fortified church has been first mentioned in a document in 1345. Superposed on a former Roman basilica, its construction lasted almost 200 years, and was finished in 1525. The former Catholic church was dedicated to St Nicholas. After the 1547 Reform, it became the main church of the Saxon inhabitants of Sighisoara, who had shifted from Roman Catholicism to Lutheranism.
In the Fortress Square, on the same side as Vlad Dracul's House, there is the Deer House, whose name was drawn from the stag skull set on one of the corners if its façade. Built in the Transylvanian Renaissance style of the 17th century, it is indicative of the way a nobleman's mansion looked like during the Middle Ages.
A building formerly used by the local authorities has gathered together the assets of the Local Library over 30,000 works, among which old and rare books like a collection of folklore in the Romanian language printed in 1768.
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| Bucharest - most popular hotels |
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Brasov hotels
Brasov was founded in 1211 by the Teutonic Knights and later occupied by Saxons, who called the settlement Kronstadt.
Sibiu hotels
Sibiu is of Roman origin, having been founded as the colony of Cibinium. In the 12th century, German settlers from Nürnberg, called Saxons, formed a community in Transylvania and founded Sibiu as the center of the region.
Sighisoara hotels
Sighisoara is no doubt the best preserved fortified town in Transylvania, with a beautiful and authentic medieval architecture.
Iasi hotels
German JASSY, city, capital of Iasi judet (county), northeastern Romania. It is situated on the Bahlui River near its confluence with the Prut, in the Moldavian plain, 8 miles (13 km) west of the border with Moldova and 200 miles northeast of Bucharest.
Timisoara hotels
Timisoara should be a reference point of a tolerant place, of a community with higher purpose. Timisoara has a number of museums, ancient cathedrals, monuments and parks that are worth a visit. The surroundings of Timisoara are rich in tourist sights.
Constanta hotels
Constanta county, southeastern Romania, bounded by Bulgaria on the south. The Black Sea lies to the east, and the northward-draining Danube River delimits the county's western border. Constanta judet, consisting mostly of lowlands, contains several lakes. Constanta city, Romania's principal seaport, is the county seat.
Suceava hotels
Suceava- the capital of the county ( 117.000 inhabitants, situated on the right bank of the river with the same name , at the crossroads of some important commercial roads which linked Central and Northern Europe with the Black Sea; having calm and subtle beauties , it is a region full of charm and tradition -Dornele Land-having hunt and fishing areas -Putna Valley, Moldavia Valley, in the Rarau and Giumalau Massifs , a huge history museum , wonderful monasteries in Bucovina, real jewelry of Moldavian feudal architecture - Voronet, Humor, Moldovita)
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