Bucharest City Tour
Full day to explore Bucharest. Known for its wide, tree-lined boulevards, glorious Belle Époque buildings and a reputation for the high life (which in the 1900s earned its nickname of “Little Paris”), Bucharest, Romania’s largest city and capital, is today a bustling metropolis.
We will see the Arch of Triumph, pass through Calea Victoriei which is Bucharest’s oldest most charming street, the Cantacuzino Palace, the Revolution Square, the Military Club, National Savings Bank Palace and the National History Museum. We visit the old town, where at the beginning of 1400s, most merchants and craftsmen – Romanian, Austrian, Greek, Armenian and Jewish – established their stores and shops in this section of the city;
Later we enter to the Bucharest Parliament Palace. Built at the special request of Nicolae Ceausescu, leader of Romania’s Communist Party, the colossal Parliament Palace – formerly known as “People’s House” is the world’s second largest administrative building after the U. S. Pentagon. It took 20,000 workers and 700 architects to build this masive structure that boasts 12 stories, 1,100 rooms, a 350-ft.-long lobby and eight underground levels, including an enormous nuclear bunker. We visit also one of the oldest churches in Bucharest (with parts dating back to the 16th century and a steeple built in 1715), the Apostles’ Church.
Dinner in a local restaurant with live music, and traditional food and wine from Romania. After dinner we can continue exploring the nightlife in Bucharest in some of the best bars and clubs.

Wine and cheese tasting in Dracula Castle (Bran Castle)
This morning we visit Bran Castle, known as the Dracula Castle, a famous symbol of Romania.
The landscape in this area is a harmonious mixture of different landforms, high mountains, plateaus, the curvy shapes carved by the rivers along their banks and the valleys that cross the land. The castle was built between 1377 and 1388. We will visit the castle and pass through its narrow winding stairways that lead through some 60 timbered rooms, many connected by underground passages, which house collections of furniture, weapons and armor dating from the 14th to the 19th centuries. The castle overlooks the picturesque village of Bran, which offers an open-air Ethnographic Museum consisting of old local-style village houses complete with furniture, household objects and costumes
We complete this medieval setting, with a wine and cheese tasting inside the castle.
Afternoon return to Bucharest. Another dinner in a selected restaurant and overnight in Bucharest.

Bucharest Airport
Breakfast at the hotel and drive towards Bucharest Airport for the return flight.