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Stavropoleos Monastery

The Stavropoleos Monastery is one of the most beautiful churches in Bucharest, a small and exquisitely detailed building tucked into the heart of the Old Town. Built in 1724, it is a masterpiece of the Brancovenesc archi…

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Macca-Villacroise Passage

The Macca-Villacroise Passage is one of Bucharest's most atmospheric spots, a covered arcade from 1891 with a distinctive yellow glass ceiling that fills the space with warm, golden light. Designed by architect Felix Xe…

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Muzeul Satului Dimitrie Gusti Bucuresti (Village Museum)

The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the oldest and largest open-air ethnographic museums in Europe. Spread across 100,000 square metres on the shore of Lake Herastrau, it contains over 340 authentic structures tran…

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Muzeul de Stiinte Naturale Grigore Antipa (Museum of Natural Sciences)

The Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural Sciences is one of the most important natural history museums in Southeast Europe. It sits on Calea Victoriei in northern Bucharest, near Herastrau Park, and has been a landmark of Ro…

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Manuc's Inn

Manuc's Inn (Hanul lui Manuc) is a historic inn in the Old Town of Bucharest, built in 1808 by the wealthy Armenian merchant Manuc Bei. It is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city centre and still works as a …

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Romanian Athenaeum

The Romanian Athenaeum (Ateneul Român) is a concert hall in central Bucharest, completed in the late 1880s and loved as the city's most recognisable cultural landmark. Its neoclassical rotunda is the home of the George E…

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CEC Palace

The CEC Palace is a domed bank headquarters on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, finished in 1900 to designs by the French architect Paul Gottereau. It houses CEC Bank, Romania's oldest savings institution, and is one of the…

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Cișmigiu Gardens

Cișmigiu Gardens is the oldest and best-loved public park in central Bucharest, Romania, laid out in the middle of the 19th century around a lake and a web of shaded paths. It is where Bucharest residents come to stroll,…

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National Theatre Bucharest

The National Theatre Bucharest (Teatrul Național București, or TNB) is the Romanian capital's national stage, a large modernist building on Bulevardul Nicolae Bălcescu beside University Square. It matters as both a worki…

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National Museum of Romanian History

The National Museum of Romanian History is Romania's main museum of national history, housed in the former Postal Palace at Calea Victoriei 12 in Bucharest. It is best known for a full-size plaster cast of Trajan's Colum…

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University Square, Bucharest

University Square (Piața Universității) is the busiest crossroads in central Bucharest, where four major boulevards meet in front of the University of Bucharest. It is a favourite meeting point for locals and a place tie…

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Lake Herăstrău

Lake Herăstrău is the large lake at the heart of Herăstrău Park, in the north of Bucharest, Romania. The park around it was laid out in the 1930s and is now one of the city's main green spaces, used for strolling, cyclin…

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Carol Park

Carol Park (Parcul Carol I) is a large landscaped park on Filaret Hill in Bucharest, laid out in the early twentieth century and named for King Carol I. It is a calm green stretch of lakeside paths, formal alleys and mon…

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Patriarchal Cathedral, Bucharest

The Patriarchal Cathedral stands at the top of Patriarchy Hill in Bucharest and is the seat of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate. Built in the 1650s, it is the spiritual centre of Romanian Orthodoxy and one of the most …

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Bucharest University of Economic Studies

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, known in Romania as ASE, is one of the country's leading universities for economics, business and related fields. Its main building stands on Piața Romană in central Buchares…

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Pasajul Victoria

Pasajul Victoria (Victoria Passage) is a pedestrian passage off Calea Victoriei in the centre of Bucharest, Romania. It is best known today for the colourful umbrellas hung above it, which make it one of the most photogr…

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Saint George's New Church

Saint George's New Church (Biserica Sfântul Gheorghe Nou) stands on Piața Sfântul Gheorghe in the centre of Bucharest. It was built under Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu at the end of the 17th century, and it is closely ti…

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Armenian Church, Bucharest

The Armenian Church (Biserica Armenească) in Bucharest is the main church of the city's Armenian community, built between 1911 and 1915 in the Armenian Quarter. It stands on the site of an older church and shows how long…

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Theodor Pallady Museum

The Theodor Pallady Museum, also known as Casa Melik, is a small house museum at Strada Spătarului 22 in Bucharest, Romania. It is often described as one of the oldest houses still standing in the city, and it holds an a…

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Telephone Palace

The Telephone Palace (Palatul Telefoanelor) is an art deco office building on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, inaugurated in 1934 and designed by American architects and engineers. It is best known for its flexible steel f…

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Suțu Palace

Suțu Palace is a neo-Gothic mansion from the 1830s at Bulevardul Ion C. Brătianu 2, beside University Square in the centre of Bucharest. Built for the Suțu family, it now houses the Museum of the City of Bucharest, which…

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