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Sightseeing

Sights generally fall into four types: political buildings and monuments, history and art museums, churches, and parks. Bucharest's political legacy provides a wealth of sights where visitors can relive the events of the 1989 revolution and the emotions leading up to it. The city offers a moving series of time capsules, from Ceau?escu's Centru Civic, evoking mixed feelings of awe and anger, to his tumultuous downfall in Pia?a Revolutiei, the sad memorials on Pia?a Universit??ii where revolutionaries died, and Ghencea Cemetery, where the Ceau?escus were buried and Communism laid to rest.

For a cultural romp, Bucharest offers some superb museums, from those that celebrate the peasant - like the Village Museum and Romanian Peasant Museum - to those that celebrate the rich - art collector KH Zambaccian's Museum, painter Theodor Aman's Museum and Prince Ferdinand's Cotreceni Palace. Note that most museums are closed on Mondays. Exquisite churches, such as Patriarchal Cathedral, Stavropoleos Church, and the Russian-style St Nicholas Students' Church, sit like precious jewels in the crown of the city's skyline. And after hours of sightseeing, there are few places more pleasant to relax in than one of Bucharest's beautiful parks.

Tourist Information

Rom?nia Autoritatea Na?ionala Pentru Turism
Strada Apolodor 17
Tel: (01) 410 0422. Fax: (01) 410 0820.
E-mail: turism@kappa.ro
Website: www.romaniatravel.com
Opening hours: Daily 0800-1630.



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