1Day | Arrival at Buacharest. Transfer to Sinaia. Accommodation and dinner at 3* hotel in Sinaia. Overnight. | 2Day | After breakfast, visit Peles & Pelisor Castles, former summer residence of king Carol I of Romania. Lunch at the hotel. Departure to Bran where Bran castle, also called Dracula Castle is visited. Short break at the handicraft open-air exhibition in front of the castle. Continue to Brasov. Accommodation and dinner at 3* hotel in Poiana Brasov resort. | 3Day | Breakfast. Sightseeing tour of the city, including Black Church (the biggest Gothic monument in Brasov), St. Nicholas Cathedral, the Schei Gate and District (architectural reservation), the Rope Street (the narrowest street in Europe), The Clothes- makers Bastion, The Rope-makers Bastion, The Weavers' Bastion (building unique in Romania), the White and the Black Towers, Ecaterina's Gate, the Old Town Hall Square and the Town Council building. Leaving to Sighisoara, the tour continues to the best preserved medieval citadel in Europe and the only one still inhabited. Tour of the citadel, including the Tower Museum, the Cover Stairs, the Church on the Hill. Feel the attractions of the Torture Room and visit the Mediaeval Weapons Collection. Dinner at Vlad Dracul's House in Sighisoara. Accommodation and dinner at 3* hotel, near Sighisoara. | 4Day | Drive torwards Bistrita. Short break in the central square of Targu Mures and visit the ruins of the medieval fortress. Lunch at "Coroana de Aur" (the Golden Crown) restaurant in Bistrita. City break. Visit and dinner at the Dracula's Castle from Borgo Pass. Return to Bistrita. Accommodation at 3* hotel in Bistrita. | 5Day | Breakfast; Departure to Baia Mare. Visit the Mineralogy Museum in Baia Mare (some exhibits are unique in the world); short sightseeing tour of the city including "Stephen the Great" Tower and the Butcher's Bastion. Lunch in Carpati Hotel in Baia Mare. Departure to Cluj-Napoca. Sightseeing tour of the historical city center and visit the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania and the Banfy Palace, where the Art Museum is sheltered. Accommodation and dinner in 3* hotel in Cluj-Napoca. | 6Day | Leaving Cluj-Napoca and follow the way to the fortress of Alba lulia. City break including the Fortress, the "Union Museum" and the Cathedral of Reunion. Lunch in "the Citadel" complex in Alba-lulia. Departure to Sibiu. Sightseeing tour of the citadel, including the most important medieval buildings and places: Bruckental Art Museum, the citadel, the Liar's Bridge, the Stairs Passage. In the afternoon, relaxing in the Dumbrava Park, which shelter one of the best village museums in Europe: the Astra Museum of Traditional Romanian Folk Civilisations. Accommodation and dinner at 3* hotel in Sibiu. | 7Day | Breakfast. Visit Cozia Monastery on the way to Ramnicu Valcea, passing through one of the most beautiful areas in Romania, the Olt Straits. Lunch in the restaurant of Capela Hotel in Ramnicu Valcea. Leave for Bucharest via Curtea de Arges, where visit the former capital of Wallachia, the residence of the first Basarab Prince. Visit the Princely Church and the Curtea de Arges monastery (including the Fountain of Master Manole). Accommodation at 3* hotel in the city centre of Bucharest. Dinner and overnight. | 8Day | Bucharest. Half-day sightseeing tour of the city including the Ceausescu's House of the People (today named "the Palace of Parliament" second largest building in the world after the Pentagon's House -, the Village Museum, Victoriei Avenue (firstly called "Podul Mogosoaiei"), Aviatorilor Bvd., the Patriarchal Complex, the Old Princely Court. Lunch in Terasa Doamnei/ Casa Bucur restaurant (Romanian cuisine). Departure transfer to the Bucharest Otopeni Airport. |
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