Palace of the Parliament

Day 1: Arrival on Otopeni international airport where you’ll be met by your guide.

Day 2: Breakfast. Our first stop will be the Orthodox Monastery in Sinaia, continuing with the Peleș Castle and then the Black Church. Lunch will be taken in the picturesque region Bran-Moeciu. Our journey continues, taking us deeper into the heart of Transylvania, to Sibiu. We’ll have dinner in one of the restaurants located in the central square.

Day 3: Breakfast. The city tour of Sibiu includes the old town whose attraction is the main Square sheltering the Brukenthal Museum and the Roman Catholic Cathedral, and it continues with Huet Square where we’ll visit the Evangelical Church. Afterwards we’ll go through the passage of stairs and cross the famous Bridge of Lies. After that you'll visit Corvin Castle in Hunedoara and Alba Carolina fortress, a Roman fort, a fortress during the Middle Ages and later a Vauban type citadel provided with bastions. The journey continues with the largest city in Transylvania, Cluj Napoca, proclaimed city of the arts. Accommodation and dinner.

Day 4: Breakfast. The first hours of the day will be devoted to a city tour. St Michael’s Gothic Cathedral overlooking the city’s central square comes first on our list of attractions of the Classic Romania Tour, followed by the Banffy Castle. From Cluj we’re heading to the north west of Romania, to Maramureș. For lunch, we are invited into the home of a welcoming family from the village of Breb. Our final destination is Săpînţa, the world’s one and only community with a merry cemetery. Hotel accommodation. Romanian traditional dinner and folkloric show.

Day 5: Breakfast. In the morning we’ll visit two ancient wooden churches that are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Fund: Poienile Izei (Iza Meadows) and Bârsana. After lunch we reach Biertan, the largest fortified church in Transylvania built by the Saxons in the sixteenth century and nowadays listed as UNESCO monument. An important highlight of the Classic Romania Tour is Sighișoara and the Clock Tower. Hotel accommodation and dinner.

Day 6: Breakfast. After leaving Sighișoara behind we’ll make our way to a small secluded village whose reputation is more recently related to Prince Charles, Viscri. From Viscri we’ll head off to the Prejmer fortress. Lunch in Brasov. Transfer to Bucharest after driving through the scenic Prahova Valley. Dinner in one of the most famous restaurants in the capital.

Day 7: Breakfast. The seven day of the Classic Romania Tour is dedicated to discover Bucharest, the place where Western and Eastern cultures interestingly blend. The most distinctive building dating back to the communist regime is the Palace of the Parliament. Lunch will be taken in the quaint atmosphere of the interwar period at the no less famous restaurant Hanul lui Manuc.

Day 8: Breakfast and check out. The last day of the Classic Romania Tour. The airport transfer will take place according to schedule.

Day 1: Travelers hitting Bucharest will find it almost inevitable not to visit the Palace of Parliament, also known as the People’s House.

Day 2: When traveling to Romania, make sure you don’t miss the Danube Delta, a natural reserve included on the Unesco world heritage site list Also named Europe’s Amazon.

Day 3: The Danube Delta

Day 4: You'll see the muddy volcanoes, a curious place where the ground seems to boil with large bubbles, just like a genuine sci-fi landscape. At the end of the day we arrive in Brasov, one of the key destinations of Romanian tourism.

Day 5: There are tourist attractions accessible to everyone and those that can be considered surprising, only for connoisseurs. Today we’ll do a mix of the two: the most visited tourist attraction in Romania, Bran Castle, for Dracula fans (this is the place where the count created by Bram Stoker lived) and the bear reserve in Zărnesti, a wildlife sanctuary in the Carpathian Mountains.

Day 6: The list of original destinations from your holiday in Romania continues. We’ll cross the Carpathian Mountains from south to north, on one of the most spectacular roads in the entire world: the Transfagarasan.

Day 7: Sibiu is quite famed for its German influence and the rich cultural life, manifested mainly through outdoor theater shows.

Day 8: The country of Haţeg has plenty of legends about dragons, prehistoric dinosaur footprints being often encountered by locals. At dusk we’ll delve into the Corvin Castle to visit the cold, awe-inspiring Gothic halls lit by torchlight.

Day 9: Alba Iulia fortress has the shape of a six-pointed star. Sighisoara, with its beautiful, winding streets of cobblestone is the only European citadel where people have been living uninterruptedly since the Middle Ages.

Day 10: What you’re about to see today will certainly raise a few questions: at an altitude of over two thousand meters, there’s a rock chiseled by time and natural phenomena, with the shape of a human face. It has the dimensions of the Egyptian Sphinx, the similarities being striking, but it is much older.

Day 11: Your amazing holiday in Romania comes to an end.

Day 1: The Bucharest City Break begins on Friday afternoon, with a panoramic tour that carefully covers the most important tourist attractions.

Day 2: A thorough tour of the Palace of Parliament (that Romanians call The House of the People) is followed by a visit to the Village Museum, a good chance to catch the contrasting shades of a society equally represented by modernity and tradition. For lunch we have chosen the most popular pub & restaurant in the city: Caru’ cu Bere (The Beer Cart) where you’ll enjoy the savory tastes of Romanian traditional cuisine. In the afternoon we’ll take a stroll through the charming historical center (the old town) and pause for a well-deserved coffee break in Bucharest’s famous age-old inn: Hanul lui Manuc (Manuc’s Inn).

Day 3: For a bird’s eye view on the city, on the last day we‘ll go exploring the Presidency headquarters; Cotroceni Palace is a former royal palace and a historical monument representative for a thriving era.

The tour starts at the hotel where you’ll meet your travel guide, who will introduce you to the city’s history. First stop: the People’s House, the largest building in Europe and second worldwide, currently hosting the Romanian Parliament – your visit includes a full tour of the huge marble halls and a rooftop view: you’ll have the opportunity to admire the city from the Parliament’s terrace. Lunch will be served in a 200-year old traditional Romanian restaurant. In the second part of the day we delve into the city’s historical center, a place brimming with life and history. Our next stop is the Village Museum, a genuine time portal to the realm of traditional medieval villages built in a unique architectural style.