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Bucharest: City Highlights Guided Private Tour

By Nicolas Experience Tours SRL
9.6 out of 10
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Overview
  • Experience Romania's history and architecture through Bucharest's landmarks
  • See Revolution Square, the National Village Museum, and Palace of Parliament
  • Travel comfortably in a private, air-conditioned car with Wi-Fi
  • Enjoy the undivided attention of your guide on this private tour

Activity location

    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, București, Romania

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, București, Romania

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What's included, what's not

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    Pickup & drop off from your address
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    Private car for you and your group
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    Flexibility regarding changes to the daily itinerary even after the start of the tour
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    Licensed English-speaking guide/driver
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    Private transport in an air-conditioned car
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    Wireless internet access in the car
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    Fuel, parking & road tolls
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    All taxes
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    Photo fees (some sights require a fee for allowing you to take pictures, usually €2 or €3 per sight)
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    Meals & drinks other than those offered before you agree on the tour
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    Entrance fees as per the itinerary
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    Service charge for your guide

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Bikes
  • Not suitable for: Wheelchair users

What you can expect

Enjoy private transport and a licensed guide to the best of Bucharest's landmarks. Be picked up from your hotel and visit the Palace of Parliament or People’s House, the Bucharest National Village Museum, Calea Victoriei (Victory Avenue), Revolution Square, and Old City Centre.

See the Palace of Parliament, the world's second-largest administrative building. Learn how dangerous and damaging a totalitarian regime like communism can be for a nation. Be prepared to feel small seeing the pointless opulence and megalomania “the sleep of reason” can create.

Visit the National Village Museum to see an embodiment of Romanian traditions. Understand what it meant for Romanian villagers to have built an ecological and sustainable environment in their backyard. Also get a glimpse into their simple and modest lifestyle, in social and spiritual harmony with their surroundings.

Enter the world of the traditional Romanian houses made of wood, adobe, stone, and other materials, from all parts of the country. Be introduced to national symbols such as the mill and the wooden church. Learn how these treasures of spirituality and civilisation have kept the people united for thousands of years.

Then, follow your guide to Calea Victoriei (Victory Avenue). Be fascinated by the contradictions of history—on one side, you have the Royal Palace and on the other, the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party and the Revolution Square, where Ceausescu fled the country by helicopter.

Marvel at old orthodox churches, enveloped in an aura of mystery. Also pass through a music store with a large selection of music, casinos, bohemian restaurants, museums, theatres, tea shops, retail stores and gift shops with souvenirs.

Next, see the National History Museum and the Romanian Athenaeum, another Romanian architectural landmark, and the CEC Palace. Take a trip back in time to the moment where dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted, leaving behind the secrets of a great fortune and controversies about the state security service.

Reach the Senate Palace and find yourself in front of the building that used to house the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party. This also served as the starting point of the Revolution of December 1989, a major historical event that marked the removal of Ceausescu from power.

Location

Activity location

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    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, București, Romania

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, București, Romania