There are, however, some enjoyable visits to be had just outside the capital, most notably the lake and monastery at Snagov Dropdown content, the palace at Mogoşoaia Dropdown content and the village of Clejani Dropdown content, known for its outstanding Gypsy music.īucharest’s festival scene has been slow to gather pace but there now exists a handful of excellent events. There’s plenty of greenery to explore, too – most obviously the tranquil Cişmigiu Gardens Dropdown content in the heart of the city, and the more expansive Herăstrău Park Dropdown content, on the shores of the lake of the same name.įrom Bucharest, there are excellent rail and road connections to the rest of the country, but local bus and train services to the towns and villages in the immediate vicinity are often limited or tortuous. North from Piaţa Victoriei, along the broad sweep of Şoseaua Kiseleff, lie Bucharest’s two best museums – the Museum of the Romanian Peasant Dropdown content, with its marvellous exhibits on peasant life and superbly reconstructed buildings, and the Village Museum Dropdown content, an assemblage of vernacular buildings garnered from Romania’s multifarious regions. To the south of here lies the scruffy but atmospheric historic centre Dropdown content, which these days owes its popularity to the welter of bars and restaurants crammed into its agreeably tatty streets. It lies halfway along Bucharest’s historic north–south axis, the Calea Victoriei Dropdown content, which is still the main artery of city life the city’s main junction, however, is the Piaţa Universităţii Dropdown content, scene of major events immediately after the 1989 revolution. The heart of the city is the Piaţa Revoluţiei Dropdown content, the scene of Ceauşescu’s downfall and site of the old Royal Palace – now home to the superb National Art Museum Dropdown content, housing a fine collection of Romanian medieval art. The centrepiece of this development was an enormous new palace for the communist leader, now known as the Palace of Parliament Dropdown content, which is Bucharest’s premier tourist attraction. The architecture of the old city, with its cosmopolitan air, was notoriously scarred by Ceauşescu’s redevelopment project in the 1980s, which demolished an immense swathe of the historic centre – including many religious buildings and thousands of homes – and replaced it with a concrete jungle, the compellingly monstrous Centru Civic Dropdown content.
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