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Sightseeing Tours in BucharestActivities in Bucharest1. Royal Palace
The Royal Palace of Bucharest, known as Palace of the Republic between 1948 and 1990, is a monumental building situated in the capital of Romania, on Calea Victoriei. The palace in its various incarnations served as official residence for the kings of Romania until 1947, when the communist regime was installed after Michael I of Romania's forced abdication. Since 1950, the palace hosts the National Museum of Art of Romania. The Romanian royal family currently uses Elisabeta Palace as its official residence in Bucharest. In addition, the Romanian government allows the royal family to use the Royal Palace different occasions.
2. Romanian Atheneum
The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania, and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's most prestigious concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu Festival.
3. Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul, the official newspaper of the Conservative Party (1880–1918). His poetry was first published when he was 16 and he went to Vienna, Austria to study when he was 19. The poet's manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and approximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January 1902. Notable works include Luceafărul, Odă în metru antic, and the five Letters (Epistles/Satires). In his poems, he frequently used metaphysical, mythological and historical subjects.
4. National Theatre Bucharest Museum
Luca Ion Caragiale, also known as Luki, Luchi or Luky Caragiale, was a Romanian poet, novelist and translator, whose contributions were a synthesis of Symbolism, Parnassianism and modernist literature. His career, cut short by pneumonia, mostly produced lyric poetry with cosmopolitan characteristics, distinct preferences for neologisms and archaisms, and willing treatment of kitsch as a poetic subject. These subjects were explored in various poetic forms, ranging from the conventionalism of formes fixes, some of which were by then obsolete, to the rebellious adoption of free verse. His poetry earned posthumous critical attention and was ultimately collected in a 1972 edition, but sparked debates among literary historians about the author's contextual importance.
5. Catedrala Patriarhală Sfinții Împărați Constantin și Elena
The Romanian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral is a functioning religious and civic landmark, on Dealul Mitropoliei, in Bucharest, Romania. It is located near the Palace of the Chamber of Deputies of the Patriarchate of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Since it is a working cathedral, it is the site of many religious holidays and observances that take place for those who follow the Orthodox Christian faith in Bucharest, including a Palm Sunday pilgrimage. The Orthodox Divine Liturgy at the cathedral is known for its a cappella choir, a common practice shared by all the Orthodox churches, in both their prayer services and liturgical rites. The Romanian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral is a designated Historical monument—Monument istoric of Romania.
6. Grigore Antipa Natural History National Museum
The Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum, located in Bucharest, Romania. It was originally established as the National Museum of Natural History on 3 November 1834. It was renamed in 1933 after Grigore Antipa, who administered the museum for 51 years. He is the scientist who reorganized the museum in the new building, designed by the architect Grigore Cerchez and inaugurated by Carol I of Romania in 1908. It was reopened in 2011 after a $14 million renovation. The museum’s collection consists of over 2 million specimens. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious and well organized natural history museums in the world.
Wikipedia: Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History (EN), Website
7. Cenotaful lui Pintea Ciprian
The Antiterrorist Fighter Monument, also called the USLA Heroes Monument, was erected in Bucharest to honor the memory of the eight fighters of the Special Antiterrorist Unit (USLA) killed on the night of December 23 to 24, 1989, the beginning days of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Initially, they all received the distinction of heroes-martyrs of the Revolution. After 21 years, their title was revoked, on the grounds that CNSAS declared that they were political police, without taking into account their position as Securitate officers and implicitly their inherent collaboration with this structure.
8. Biserica Ortodoxă „Bucur Ciobanul”
Bucur Church is a church which formerly served as the chapel for the Radu Vodă Monastery. There is no exact date for the building of the church and this has been the subject of much discussion among Romanian historians. For a long time, many historians have insisted that the building is in a style specific to the 18th century, while others have held to the legend which claims that the church was built by the shepherd Bucur, whose name is also associated with the name of the city of Bucharest. The church is first recorded on a map drawn up between 1844 and 1846 with the name of the Bucur Church.
9. Templul Coral
The Choral Temple is a synagogue located in Bucharest, Romania. Designed by Enderle and Freiwald and built between 1864 and 1866, it is a very close copy of Vienna's Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse Great Synagogue, which had been built in 1855–1858. The synagogue was devastated by the far-right Legionaries in January 1941, but was then restored after World War II, in 1945. The main hall was recently refurbished, and re-opened in 2015. The synagogue is still hosts daily religious services in the small hall, being one of the few active synagogues in the city and in Romania.
10. Maria and Dr. George Severeanu Collection
George Severeanu Museum is a museum and historical monument in Bucharest, on Henri Coandă Street nr. 26, sector 1, in a house dating from around 1860. The museum is housed in the house that belonged to radiologist George Severeanu and his wife, Maria. In the museum is exhibited the numismatic and antiquities collection of the Severeanu spouses, which includes 11 ancient Egyptian antiquities, Greek and Etruscan vases, statuettes of Tanagra, glassware and Roman jewelry, pottery of İznik, medieval documents, many coins (numismatics), and others.
11. Dimitrie Brandza Botanic Garden
The "Dimitrie Brândză" Botanical Garden of the University of Bucharest, which bears its current name since 1994, is located in the Cotroceni neighborhood of Bucharest, Romania. It consists of an open-air exhibition divided into 12 sectors, two greenhouses and a museum, along with administrative buildings and a building of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Bucharest. It covers an area of 18.2 ha and has over 10,000 species of plants. The garden has a herbarium that counted about 520,000 pages in 2022.
12. Biserica Mănăstirii Stavropoleos
Stavropoleos Monastery, also known as Stavropoleos Church during the last century when the monastery was dissolved, is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for nuns in central Bucharest, Romania. Its church is built in Brâncovenesc style. The patrons of the church are St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel. The name Stavropoleos is the genitive case of Stavropolis. One of the monastery's constant interests is Byzantine music, expressed through its choir and the largest collection of Byzantine music books in Romania.
13. National Cathedral of Romania
The People's Salvation Cathedral, with the main dedication "Ascension of the Lord" and the secondary dedication "St. Apostle Andrew", is the largest church in Romania and one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world. The foundation stone of the place of worship was laid in February 2011 and its completion date was expected to be at the end of 2018. The costs, until November 2018, amounted to 110 million euros and the winner of the tender for the design of the edifice is the Bacău company Vanel Exim.
Wikipedia: Catedrala Mântuirii Neamului Românesc (RO), Website
14. Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida National Technological Museum
The Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum was founded in 1909 by Dimitrie Leonida, inspired by the München Technical Museum, he had visited during his studies in Charlottenburg Polytechnic Institute. In 1908, with the help of the first promotions of mechanics and electricians from his school, the first in Romania, Leonida collected the first objects for the museum. What is different in the Leonida museum was the educational orientation of the museum and also the interactivity.
15. Monumentul Eroilor Aerului
The Monument to the Heroes of the Air, located in the Aviators' Square, on Aviators' Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania, was built between 1930 and 1935 by sculptors Lidia Kotzebue (1885–1944), and by Iosif Fekete. The structure, 20 m (65.6 ft) high, is made up of bronze sculptures resting on an obelisk-shaped stone pedestal, which in turn stands atop four trapezoidal prisms linked to each other by arcs. Beneath this entire complex is a circular stone base.
16. Italian Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
The Italian Church of the Most Holy Redeemer is a Roman Catholic church located in Bucharest, Romania, at 28 Nicolae Bălcescu Boulevard. The Lombard Romanesque red brick edifice was built between 1915–1916 and consecrated by bishop Raymond Netzhammer in 1916. Owned by the Italian government, it is surrounded by apartment blocks. Services are held daily in Romanian at 6 PM, and on Sundays, in Polish at 9 AM, Romanian at 10 AM, Italian at 11 AM.
17. Ana Davila
The monument of Ana Davila is the work of Romanian sculptor Karl Storck and his son, sculptor Carol Storck and was unveiled in 1890. The statue represents Ana Davila in folk costume. Next to her stands an orphaned and barefoot girl, representing generations of girls raised in the "Elena Doamna" Orphan Asylum, led by Ana Davila. Made of Carrara marble, the statue is placed on a stone pedestal erected on a stone pedestal with three steps.
18. Biserica Ortodoxă Boteanu-Ienii
Boteanu Church is an Orthodox church in Bucharest, sector 1. At this Church there is a part of the relics of St. John James. The history of the church stretches back to 1682, when a monk named Mihul built a church dedicated to "The Cutting of the Head of Saint John the Baptist". The church is better known as "Bradu-Boteanu" because a tall fir tree grew next to the church and because the church was near a slum called "Boteanului".
19. Casa Nanu-Muscel
Nanu-Muscel House is a house with historical value in Bucharest, located in sector 1, in Romana Square, at number 7. The house belonged to Ion Nanu-Muscel, a professor of semiology and medical clinic for 30 years at the University of Medicine in Bucharest, senator, doctor at Filantropia Hospital and then in Coltea for 36 years, president of the Medical Society of Bucharest hospitals and member of the Romanian Academy of Medicine.
20. Dealul Mitropoliei
Dealul Mitropoliei, also called Dealul Patriarhiei, is a small hill in Bucharest, Romania and an important historic, cultural, architectural, religious and touristic point in the national capital. From a religious point of view, it is one of the centres of Romanian Orthodoxy: the headquarters of the Romanian Patriarchy and the residence of the Patriarch are both located here.
21. Theodor Pallady Museum
The Theodor Pallady Museum is a museum situated in one of the oldest surviving merchant houses in Bucharest, Romania. It includes many works by the well-known Romanian painter Theodor Pallady, as well as a number of European and Oriental furniture pieces. Built in the second half of the 18th century, the house is named after its most illustrious owner, Iacob Melic.
22. Triumphal Arch
Arcul de Triumf is a triumphal arch located on the Kiseleff Road, in the northern part of Bucharest, Romania. The monument, designed by Petre Antonescu, was built in 1921–22, renovated in 1935–36, and renovated again starting in 2014. It commemorates Romania's victory in the First World War and the coronation of King Ferdinand and his wife Marie.
23. Moara lui Assan (1853)
Assan's mill, built in 1853, is the first steam mill in Romania. The mill is located in Bucharest, in the Obor-Lizeanu area. It is currently in an advanced stage of degradation. Assan's mill is classified in the records of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs as a historical monument of national value and is part of the industrial heritage.
24. Biserica Sfânta Fecioară Maria Regină din Cioplea
The Church of the Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Cioplea is a Roman Catholic church located in the former Cioplea district of Bucharest, demolished during the systematisation of the 1980s. The Lăcasul is located on Râmnicu Salat Aleea no. 3-5, sector 3. The church is also named Cioplea, after the former neighborhood, and holds a cemetery of its own.
25. Carol Park
Carol I Park is a public park in Bucharest, Romania, named after King Carol I of Romania. A French garden located in the southern-central area of Bucharest, partly on Filaret hill, originally capable of hosting various exhibitions, it suffered considerable modifications during the communist regime, including a name change to Parcul Libertății.
26. Piața Unirii
Piața Unirii is one of the largest squares in central Bucharest, Romania, located in the center of the city where Sectors 1, 2, 3, and 4 meet. Part of the Civic Centre, it is bisected by Unirii Boulevard, originally built during the Communist era as the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism, and renamed after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
27. Memorial of Rebirth
The Memorial of Rebirth is a memorial in Bucharest, Romania that commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Communism. The memorial complex was inaugurated in August 2005 in Revolution Square, where Romania's Communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, was publicly overthrown in December 1989.
28. The Jewish Theatre
Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat in Bucharest, Romania is a theater specializing in Jewish-related plays. It is the oldest Yiddish-language theater with uninterrupted activity in the world. Its contemporary repertoire includes plays by Jewish authors, plays on Jewish topics, and plays in Yiddish. Many of the plays also feature Jewish actors.
29. Monumentul Topogeodezilor Militari
The Military Topogeodes' Monument in Bucharest was inaugurated on November 16, 2009, on the occasion of celebrating 150 years since the establishment of the Romanian Military Topographic Service, whose traditions are continued by the Military Topographic Directorate. The monument is the work of the artist Valentin Tanase from Buzau.
Wikipedia: Monumentul Topogeodezilor Militari din București (RO)
30. Biserica Sfântul Dumitru - Slobozia
Slobozia Church, dedicated to the Great Martyr St. Demetrius, is a Romanian Orthodox church in Bucharest's Sector 4, located at the intersection of Dimitrie Cantemir and Marășești Boulevards. Built by Radu Leon, its ctitor, between 1664 and 1667, the church was erected near a stone cross placed by Radu's father, Leon Tomșa.
31. Biserica Sfântul Gheorghe - Nou
New St. George Church is a Romanian Orthodox church located in Bucharest, Romania, along the city center's main north–south thoroughfare, where it intersects the Lipscani area. It is dedicated to Saint George. The church is associated with Constantin Brâncoveanu: it was built during his reign and he is buried inside.
32. Palatul Nunțiaturii Apostolice a Sfântului Scaun din București
The Palace of the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Bucharest, inaugurated in 1901, is located on Pictor Constantin Stahi Street nr. 5-7 and is the seat of the Apostolic Nunciature to Romania. The building is included in the List of historical monuments in Bucharest, sector 1, under code LMI B-II-m-A-19725.
Wikipedia: Palatul Nunțiaturii Apostolice a Sfântului Scaun din București (RO)
33. Biserica Sfântul Nicolae - Ghica
The Russian Church in Bucharest, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, is a historical monument located in the University Square area of Bucharest. The church was subordinated to the Moscow Patriarchate until 1957, when it was subordinated to the Romanian Patriarchate. Until 1992 services were celebrated in Russian.
34. Biserica Sfântul Elefterie Vechi
The Church of Saint Elefterie Vechi in Bucharest was built from the donation of Constantin sin [= son of] Macsin Cupețul, with the help and supervision of Metropolitan Neofit, between 1743-1744, during the reign of Mihai Racoviță. The church, located in sector 5 of Bucharest, is a historical monument.
35. Mănăstirea Ortodoxă „Chiajna - Giulești”
Chiajna Monastery is the name of a ruined church situated on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania which is the subject of many legends, including the story that it is cursed. The information centre, Giulești Park, is devoted to the upkeep and protection of the building, which is a national heritage site.
36. Biserica Mărcuța
Mărcuța Church is a Romanian Orthodox church in Bucharest, Romania on the east side of the Pantelimon district. Built in 1587, it is one of the oldest structures still in use today in Romania. In the past the church served the Mărcuța Monastery which was situated on the outskirts of the city.
37. National Museum of the Romanian Peasant
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant is a museum in Bucharest, Romania, with a collection of textiles, icons, ceramics, and other artifacts of Romanian peasant life. One of Europe's leading museums of popular arts and traditions, it was designated "European Museum of the Year" for 1996.
38. Politehnica University of Bucharest
Politehnica University of Bucharest is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania. 200 years of activity have been celebrated lately, as the university was founded in 1818. Politehnica University is classified by the Ministry of Education as an advanced research and education university.
39. National Museum of Maps and Rare Books
The National Museum of Maps and Old Books is a national museum in Bucharest, located in Str. Londra nr. 39, sector 1, established on April 4, 2003. Dana and Adrian Nastase contributed significantly to the map collection by donating hundreds of maps from their personal collection.
Wikipedia: Muzeul Național al Hărților și Cărții Vechi (RO), Website
40. Arhivele Naționale
The National Archives of Romania, until 1996 the State Archives, are the national archives of Romania, headquartered in Bucharest. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There are 42 regional branches, one in each county of Romania and one in Bucharest.
41. Palatul Romanit
The Romanit Palace, the headquarters of the Museum of Art Collections, located on Calea Victoriei at number 111, is a representative building of nineteenth-century Bucharest, built by boyar C. Faca, at the corner formed by Calea Victoriei and Calea Griviței.
42. Monumentul Eroilor C.F.R.
The monument of the railway heroes of Bucharest is located in the North Railway Station Square and has as authors the sculptors Corneliu Medrea and Ion Jalea. It was erected in memory of the railway workers fallen in World War I, and was unveiled in 1923.
43. Art Collections Museum
The Museum of Art Collections is a branch of the National Museum of Art of Romania and is situated in Bucharest. It is located on Calea Victoriei no.111 at the corner of Calea Griviței, in Romanit Palace, the first section of which was built in 1822.
44. Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino Fountain
The George Grigorie Cantacuzino Fountain in Carol I Park, Bucharest is a monument built in 1870, in a neoclassical concept, at the initiative and expense of Bucharest Mayor Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, architect Al. Freiwald and sculptor Karl Storck.
45. Capela Elisabeta Doamna
Saint Elisabeth Chapel was founded by Queen Elisabeth who laid the foundation stone on April 24, 1870, inside the Elena Doamna Orphan Asylum built by Elena Cuza based on the document signed on July 18, 1862 by her husband, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
46. Carol Park Mausoleum
The Carol Park Mausoleum, named during the communist regime the Monument to the heroes of the struggle for the freedom of the people and the motherland, for socialism, is a monument located in Carol I Park, sector 4 of Bucharest, on Filaret Hill.
47. Assan House
The Assan House, built in 1906-1914, is located in Bucharest in Lahovari Square nr. 9, sector 1. It was commissioned by engineer and industrialist Bazil G. Assan and built in French neoclassical style by Romanian architect Ion D. Berindey.
48. Ion Luca Caragiale
A statue of Ion Luca Caragiale, sculpted by Constantin Baraschi, is located on Maria Rosetti Street in central Bucharest, Romania. It is placed in front of the house where the dramatist and short story writer Ion Luca Caragiale once lived.
49. Catedrala romano-catolică Sfântul Iosif
Saint Joseph Cathedral is a historical and architectural monument located in Bucharest, Romania, at 19 General Berthelot Street. It is the main place of worship which serves as cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest.
50. National Geological Museum
The National Geological Museum is located on Şoseaua Kiseleff (street), in Bucharest, Romania. It is located near Victory Square and Kiseleff Park, in central Bucharest. The museum was founded in 1892 and was re-established in 1990.
51. Biserica Ortodoxă Crețulescu
Kretzulescu Church is an Eastern Orthodox church in central Bucharest, Romania. Built in the Brâncovenesc style, it is located on Calea Victoriei, nr. 45A, at one of the corners of Revolution Square, next to the former Royal Palace.
52. Grozăvești Power Station
The Grozăvești Power Station is a large thermal power plant located at 229 Splaiul Independenței Street, Sector 6, Bucharest. It has 2 generation groups of 50 MW, each having a total electricity generation capacity of 100 MW.
53. National Museum of Contemporary Art
The National Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum in Bucharest, Romania. The museum is located in a new glass wing of the Palace of the Parliament, one of the largest administrative buildings in the world.
Wikipedia: National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania) (EN)
54. Grădina Icoanei
Grădina Icoanei is a small park in central Bucharest, situated not far away from Piața Romană and Bulevardul Magheru. The park, located next to Gheorghe Cantacuzino Plaza in Sector 2 of the city, was inaugurated in 1873.
55. Biserica Ortodoxă „Sfântul Spiridon Nou”
The Saint Spyridon the New Church is a Romanian Orthodox church in Bucharest, Romania on Calea Șerban Vodă, no. 29. Originally built with gothic influences in 1852–1858, it was strongly modified by Patriarch Justinian.
56. Bucharest Zoo
Zoo Băneasa is a zoo in Bucharest, Romania, located in a northern district of the city, called Băneasa. The park was founded in 1955 as a service of the Municipal Household Section of the People's Council of the Capital.
57. Cathedral of Saint Basil the Great
Saint Basil the Great Cathedral, located at 50 Polonă street, is the first Romanian Greek-Catholic church built in Bucharest. The church's patron is Basil of Caesarea and its dedication celebration is on January 1.
58. Biserica „Sfântul Anton - Curtea Veche”
The Curtea Veche Church is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 33 Franceză Street in the Lipscani quarter of Bucharest, Romania. It is dedicated to the Feast of the Annunciation and to Saint Anthony the Great.
59. 1906 fountain
The 1906 fountain in Carol I Park, Bucharest is an Italian monument made of various marble and granite assortments. The construction is 4.10 m high and is made of stone extracted from several careers in Romania.
60. Palatul Elisabeta
Elisabeta Palace is a palace on Kiseleff Road in Bucharest, Romania. Built in 1936, it is the official residence in Romania of Margareta of Romania, her husband Prince Radu, and her sister Princess Maria.
61. Palatul Bragadiru
The history of the Colosseum and the buildings that preceded it in these places begins in the mid-1800s. The entire domain was named Bragadiru, and was founded by businessman Dumitru Marinescu Bragadiru.
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