Historical Private Tour of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
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Trip Type: City Tours
Duration: 4 hours
The communist building, which houses the Palace of Parliament, and the open-air Village Museum are the two most popular tourist attractions in Bucharest. This four-hour private historical tour of Bucharest includes inside visits to these museums, as well as a panoramic tour, by car, of the oldest and most famous areas of the Romanian capital city.
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The communist building, which houses the Palace of Parliament, and the open-air Village Museum are the two most popular tourist attractions in Bucharest. This four-hour private historical tour of Bucharest includes inside visits to these museums, as well as a panoramic tour, by car, of the oldest and most famous areas of the Romanian capital city.
Bucharest is an eclectic city, with a various range of architectural styles, each of them telling a piece of the city's history. The Village Museum was inaugurated in 1936, making it the third open air museum in Europe. The collection contains about 100 original households, churches and mills specific to each and every historical region of Romania. Built inside Bucharest's largest park, Herastrau, the museum is like a countryside oasis, where traditional crafts and products are on display for the urban travelers.
The Palace of Parliament is a relict of the communist past, especially of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. Listed in the Guinness Book as the second largest administrative building, it was erected to house the most important public institutions, as well as the offices of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. The building is made of one thousand rooms, displaying different architectural styles, with high ceilings, walls and columns covered in marble, custom designed rugs and curtains, with lots of crystal chandeliers. Seven hundreds architects and twenty thousands workers were hired to bring Ceausescu's epic project to life, yet he was killed before the construction was finished.
Last, but not least, you'll see why Bucharest was called Little Paris a century ago. French architects designed some of the most impressive mansions and public buildings in the city, such as the National History Museum, the Former Royal Palace (today called the National Art Museum), the Romanian Athenaeum or the Arch of Triumph.
The Palace of Parliament is a relict of the communist past, especially of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. Listed in the Guinness Book as the second largest administrative building, it was erected to house the most important public institutions, as well as the offices of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. The building is made of one thousand rooms, displaying different architectural styles, with high ceilings, walls and columns covered in marble, custom designed rugs and curtains, with lots of crystal chandeliers. Seven hundreds architects and twenty thousands workers were hired to bring Ceausescu's epic project to life, yet he was killed before the construction was finished.
Last, but not least, you'll see why Bucharest was called Little Paris a century ago. French architects designed some of the most impressive mansions and public buildings in the city, such as the National History Museum, the Former Royal Palace (today called the National Art Museum), the Romanian Athenaeum or the Arch of Triumph.
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