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Where to Stay in Bucharest

Published/Revised July 20, 2018 By Maria Haase This post may contain promotional and affiliate links. EuropeUpClose may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Please read our disclosure for more info.

Where to Stay in Bucharest - Best Neighborhoods and Hotels Best Place To Stay in Bucharest If you are looking for hotel recommendations and tips on where to stay in Bucharest, you have come to the right place. I recently visited Bucharest and spend a little over a week in the Romanian Capital. Here are my tips and recommendations. Where to Stay in Bucharest - Old Town Most sights of ... Read Full Article

Tracking Down Dracula at Snagov Monastery

Published/Revised July 20, 2018 By Claudia Flisi This post may contain promotional and affiliate links. EuropeUpClose may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Please read our disclosure for more info.

Few visitors to Romania come to Snagov Monastery. Fewer still have ever heard of it, in spite of its connection to the life (actually the death) of Count Dracula, the country’s most famous native. Technically, as a fictional character – and a vampire, Dracula didn’t live OR die. But his real-life counterpart, Vlad Țepeș (Vlad the Impaler), did end up at Snagov, maybe. Vlad the Impaler followed a ... Read Full Article

Walks in Northern Bucharest: Stately Villas and Monuments

Published/Revised July 20, 2018 By David Hill This post may contain promotional and affiliate links. EuropeUpClose may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Please read our disclosure for more info.

Northern Bucharest offers pleasant walks along stately avenues where you can see pre-war mansions, well-tended parks, and interesting monuments and museums. Providing a reprieve from the towering apartment blocks typical of the Romanian capital, it is the city’s wealthiest area, home to several embassies, upmarket hotels, and restaurants (also take a look at this Bucharest Food ... Read Full Article

Downtown Bucharest: a Stroll Down Historic Calea Victoriei

Calea Victoriei, a major street running north-south in downtown Bucharest, has many bookstores, some of the best hotels in Bucharest, and fashion stores. This elegant, tree-lined, meandering street is a quieter walk than the thundering thoroughfare of Magheru-Balcescu-Bratianu. At number 141, on the right-as you walk south, is a gorgeous mansion built in 1905, housing a museum dedicated to the ... Read Full Article

Downtown Bucharest: Walking Down to the Cathedral

Bucharest, Romania's capital and home to two million people, is both dense and expansive, both run-down and grandiose. This flat city, baking hot in summer and icy-cold in winter, offers striking sights and plentiful evidence of both a fascinating past and a dynamic present. >>Where to stay in Bucharest At the heart of Bucharest's sweeping downtown area is a broad, noisy and straight ... Read Full Article