Brasov, Romania

You will enjoy in Romania especially the landscapes, with small houses in green, full of flowers meadows and the castles, with their medieval air and amazing history. Fairytale castles of Romania tour was designed to take you to see all these wonders in one day of idyllic sights.

The tour begins with Peles castle, one of the most beautiful castles in Europe and Bran castle, the famous castle of Count Dracula  and ends in Brasov with a walking tour. For lunch we will stop in a rustic place.

Highlights:

1. Peles castle

2. Bran castle

3. Lunch in a rustic place

4. Brasov city center

This one day tour combines a visit to Peles, one of the most beautiful European castles with a half-day walking tour in the old city center of Brasov, a Carpathian city renowned for its large and well-conserved medieval monuments.

The tour is available from Tuesday to Sunday. The price is approx. 100USD per person for a group of 6 people. Maxim group size: 10

Itinerary

We leave early morning from your hotel in Bucharest. Our first stop is Peles Castle in Sinaia, a mountain resort from the popular Prahova Valley. We’ll spend all afternoon in beautiful Brasov before we head back for Bucharest on the scenic Rucar-Bran Valley.

Peles Castle

The summer residence of King Carol the 1st, this fairy tale castle from Sinaia is one of the most impressive castles in Romania and Europe. Built between 1873 and 1914 with visible elements of the German Renaissance style, but used as a residence since 1883, the castle was constructed after the plans of famous architects of the time. Close to Peles Castle lies Pelisor, the smaller, yet splendid residence of Queen Maria and King Ferdinand.

Brasov

One of the oldest cities in Romania and a key commercial point since the medieval ages between Transylvania and the Balkans, Brasov has one of the finest old city centers in the country. Monuments that date even from the 13th century attest the Saxon heritage of Brasov, once a fortress-city that closed in front of enemy attacks.

Among the attractions we’ll see are the Black Church, the Town Square, the White Tower, the Black Tower, the fortification system, Sforii Street and many more centuries old sites.

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: One of the best Romania tours starts in the old historical center and continues with the former residential palace of Ceausescu, The House of the People, the second largest building in the world.

Day 2: We leave Bucharest and go up north, into the heart of Romania. Our first stop is legendary Curtea de Arges monastery, at the foot of the Carpathians. Afterwards we visit the pottery processing center in Horezu; here we’ll admire the vividly-painted pottery adorned with beautiful motifs. Nearby is Hurezi Monastery, built in the seventeenth century and part of the UNESCO heritage.

Day 3: Your vacation in Romania continues in Transylvania, whose fame will always be associated to Count Dracula’s legend. The first stop is Sibiu. We’ll continue by exploring one of the largest outdoor museums in Europe, the Astra Museum, hosting the largest ethnographic exhibit in the country.

Day 4: Today, we’ll reach the Corvin Castle: built in the fifteenth century in the Gothic style, it is connected to the destiny of the prince who went down in history as Dracula. We then head to Alba Carolina Fortress located in the center of Romania, an impressive star-shaped fortress surrounded by 12 km of walls.

Day 5: We visit two important monuments under UNESCO protection: the largest fortified church in Transylvania in Biertan, followed by Sighisoara whose medieval fortress has been constantly inhabited since the XIII century.

Day 6: From Sighisoara we set off to Targu Mures, a city recognized for its ethnic and cultural diversity. On our way to Turda salt mine with its spectacular galleries carved in salt, we’ll cross several rural areas in Transylvania. Our last destination is Cluj-Napoca.

Day 7: The next two days are devoted to Maramures, one of the most famously beautiful and unspoilt regions of rural Romania, inhabited by genuine, good-natured people. We’ll reminisce a heartrending moment in Romania’s history at the Memorial of the Victims of Communism, set up in a former prison. On a different note, the Merry Cemetery in Sapanta is one of the must-see places in this part of the country and certainly the most interesting cemetery in the world.

Day 8: Early in the morning we’ll take off on a trip with the mocanita, through fairy-tale like landscape of Maramures. On the way back we’ll visit two of the best preserved churches in Maramures, under the UNESCO World Heritage Site: the church of Ieud and Poienile Izei church.

Day 9: The journey continues with the Bukovina region, revealed after going across the incredible scenery of the Carpathians. We’ll visit Moldovita monastery.

Day 10: Sucevita welcomes us with its towering walls; in the past it used to be the summer residence of the royal Moldovan family. The most famous among Bukovina’ monasteries is Voroneţ, impressive with its unique shade of blue on the outer frescoes. Then, we will visit Neamţ fortress – an important military and historical objective that survived the siege of Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople.

Day 11: We return to Transylvania passing through amazing places; the Bicaz Gorge, a spectacular defile carved in stone and Lacu Rosu (the Red Lake), the largest alpine lake in Romania. We will visit the picturesque village of Viscri, a small community whose inhabitants are proud to be neighbors with the Prince of Wales.

Day 12: Today we’ll take a look at Brasov and its charming surroundings. Among the tourist attractions we’ll visit there’s Bran Castle.

Day 13: Saving the best for last, as the saying goes, towards the end of our holiday we’ll visit two gems of neoclassical architecture: the Peleş Castle and the Pelisor Castle. Both served as summer residence of the Romanian royal family in the late 19th early 20th century.