UNESCO Heritage of Romania

BUCHAREST

MEDIEVAL TOWNS OF TRANSYLVANIA

PAINTED MONASTERIES OF BUCOVINA

FOLKLORIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN MARAMURES


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1 day: Airport - Bucharest
Arrival in Bucharest. Brief tour of the city of Bucharest with the most important squares and Boulevards. Accommodation in 3 * hotel, dinner and overnight

Day 2: Bucharest / Sinaia / Brasov (or Poiana Brasov)
After breakfast, continue to Sinaia, the "pearl of the Carpathians" located in the Prahova Valley to visit the royal Peles Castle, a beautiful complex of elements from Italian and Bavarian Renaissance; in the afternoon visit to Bran Castle, legendary Residence of Count Dracula. Arrival in Brasov and visit the picturesque medieval town, with Black churce and the square of the Council. Dinner and overnight in hotel 3 *.

3 days: Brasov / Sighisoara / Bistro / Tihuta
Departure to Sighisoara, one of the most beautiful towns of Romania. Visit the Citadel with its the towers, the square, the house where Vlad Dracula lived. Lunch. Brief visit to Targu Mures city bilingual (Romanian-Hungarian), the former seat of the Diet of Transylvania. Continue towards the region of Bukovina crossing again the Carpathians. Dinner and overnight at the hotel- citadel Tihuta, the place where Bram Stoker placed the castle of his novel.

Day 4: Tihuta / tour Monasteries / Campulung Moldovenesc
Departure for Campulung Moldovenesc, a town that represents the entrance gate in the area of the monasteries of Bucovina. Whole day devoted to the excursion to the famous monasteries of Bucovina, built between the XV and XVI century, with externals frescoes: Voronet, whose church is called "the jewel of Bucovina and Sucevita, surrounded by walls and one of the best preserved monasteries Romania and Moldova called "sheet of parchment immersed in the blue." Dinner and overnight in hotel 3 *.

5 days: Maramures-Sapanta / Baia Mare
Departure for the Iza valley where authentic folklore and traditions of Maramures are best preserved both in costume performed on public holidays and in the wooden architecture: of particular interest are the wooden churches dating XVII-XVIII centuries in the villages of Bogdan Voda, and Rozavlea Ieud. Stop in Sighetu Marmatiei to visit the ethnographic museum and in the afternoon visit to the “Merry cemetery” of Sapinta, the bucolic valley of the Oas.Accommodation in 3 * hotel in Baia Mare, dinner and overnight.

6 days: Baia Mare / Cluj / Alba Iulia / Sibiu
You leave the picturesque region of Maramures heading to the valley of the river Somes. Stop to Cluj - visit St. Michael, the largest Gothic church in Romania and Alba Iulia, citadel designed by the Italian architect Morando Visconti IN Vaubain style. Evening arrival in Sibiu, town rich in testimonies of its Saxon past, designated Cultural capital of Europe in 2007. Dinner and overnight in hotel 3 *.

Day 7: Sibiu / Cozia / Bucharest
After breakfast visit the historic center, an unusual cluster of squares, towers, archways and old houses set up as a fortress. Continue to Bucharest through the region of Oltenia, Stop on route for visiting the monastery of Cozia (1386). Lunch on the road. In the afternoon arrival in Bucharest. Accommodation in 3 * hotel in Bucharest, dinner and overnight.

Day 8: Bucharest
Full day visit of Romanian capital with the old center, the Patriarchal church, the church and Voividale Palace, the Palace of Parliament (second in the world after the Pentagon building erected by the Communist dictator Ceausescu) Cotroceni Palace - Presidential Residence and the museum of the Village in the open air. Lunch at restaurant in town. Dinner and accommodation in hotel 3 *.

Day 9: Bucharest - airport
Morning free. After breakfast, transfer to Otopeni airport. End of our services.