Únete a esta interesante visita guiada de Bucarest, disfrutando tanto de la ciudad como del Monasterio de Snagov. Durante nuestra excursión de seis horas y media, viajarás a un mundo marcado por pacíficos pastores y por Vlad el Empalador, un ominoso calificativo para una figura venerada. Déjate transportar a una época llena de belleza y de intrigas.
Destacamos
- Entrada al Monasterio de Snagov
- Conoce la sobrecogedora historia de Vlad el Empalador
- Tiempo libre en Baneasa Shopping City
Únete a esta interesante visita guiada de Bucarest, disfrutando tanto de la ciudad como del Monasterio de Snagov. Durante nuestra excursión de seis horas y media, viajarás a un mundo marcado por pacíficos pastores y por Vlad el Empalador, un ominoso calificativo para una figura venerada. Déjate transportar a una época llena de belleza y de intrigas.
Empieza el día disfrutando de las vistas panorámicas de Bucarest mientras recorres el centro y la Corte Principesca. Imagina que estás en otra época mientras admiras la extraordinaria arquitectura histórica de la ciudad.
Luego, a 40 km de Bucarest, te espera Snagov, una pequeña localidad situada a orillas de un bonito lago con relevancia histórica por derecho propio. En un islote en medio del lago verás una iglesia bizantina del siglo XV: el Monasterio de Snagov, que alberga la tumba de Drácula. Vlad el Empalador inspiró al creador de drácula esa leyenda que invoca oscuras y lúgubres sensaciones, las mismas que despertará en ti la tumba del vampiro. La isla es un paraíso de frondosos jardines, llenos de flores y árboles.
Después cambiaremos de tercio radicalmente, regresando a la ciudad para conocer Baneasa Shopping City. Tómate tu tiempo para explorar todo lo que te ofrece este centro comercial en continua expansión y come algo antes de regresar.
Tras esta excursión a la ciudad de Bucarest y al Monasterio de Snagov para todos los gustos, rememorarás un lugar extraordinario que mezcla leyenda y serenidad natural, pasado y presente.
Idiomas: Inglés y otros idiomas bajo petición: alemán, italiano, francés y español.
Spend one day in the heart of Transylvania! This tour will lead you on the steps of the medieval times: the visit of Biertan fortified church and the Sighisoara`s Citadell will make you breath the air of history. Crossing the Transylvanian plateau, we drive towards Sighisoara and we stop by in Biertan, a medieval village that served as the bishop seat for more than 300 years. Here we will visit its fortified church, a UNESCO monument, situated in the heart of the village. This place will give you a spectacular view over the surroundings.
Next we drive to Sighisoara, the only inhabited citadel in South-Eastern Europe, also part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. Beside its magnificent sites, you will have the opportunity to discover the birth place of our famous Dracula! So, don`t miss!
We will climb the 177 steps of the Covered Staircase, until we arrive at the Church on the Hill. We return to Sibiu at 18:00. We will leave you in front of the hotel in which you are checked in.
This tour is a part of the Urban Adventures Home Cooked series and aims to give you one of the richest travelling experiences you can ever have – the opportunity to enjoy a meal with a family in a local home. Your local hosts speak English well, so you won’t need sign language to understand each other!
The aim is for you to experience life exactly how it is in Bucharest. It is the chance for you to hang out with everyday locals, and get to know Romanian culture through their eyes, and their food. Could there be a more perfect way to get to know local life in Bucharest? We don’t think so. You will be met at the meeting point by one of the family who speaks English. We’ll head back to your hosts’ home, and after you’re introduced; it’s time to get our chef hats on!
In terms of the cooking, you can do as much or as little as you like. If you want to learn some Romanian cooking techniques and recipes, this is your chance to learn from a local. They will be happy to show you the ropes. But if you want to just sit back, chat, and relax, that’s cool too. When the food is ready you will all sit down together and share the meal prepared, enjoy the conversation, or maybe you’ll even look at each other’s photographs and maybe take some more all together.
This experience is real. Our families come from all walks of life. Some you might find have a similar lifestyle to your own, whereas others might come from a very different background. This is your chance to get to know the people of Romania in their own homes – something that you certainly won’t find on every tour in Bucharest! The beauty of this project is that everyone involved in our Home Cooked Series is someone who wants to meet travellers and share experiences with them.
Bucharest today is a nice city to live in, yet until the late 1980's, Romania was a communist state and Bucharest was a troubled place. Anything related to the west was forbidden to the extent that even talking to a westerner on the street could mean a trip to a Police station for an interview with a Securitate (secret police) officer. That era left its marks on Bucharest, a city once known as 'Little Paris'.
Your tour starts at Revolution Square, the place where the fight for liberation started. Then, you will continue your trip towards the Archives, a building that still bears the bullet marks of its bloody history.
From there you will head to Constitution Square and to the top of the Palace of the Parliament, the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon. Nicolae Ceau?escu, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, who's regime it was built under, called it 'the People's Palace'. Next the tour will move towards a neighborhood in the north of Bucharest, where you can see examples of the true socialist architecture, and some of the “bedroom quarters”. You will also get to see one of the famous 'Hunger Circles' - an ex-canteen from the communist era, so called because of the severe food shortages at the time.
On your way, you will stop at the Romanian Television HQ (TVR), the Romanian public television station. Due to the ""energy saving program"", the TVR schedule was severely limited to only about two hours per day during the communist era, between 8pm and 10pm, most of which was dedicated to the cult of personalities of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena. The two hours of programming were half propaganda and half general entertainment.
You'll then go to the Primaverii neighborhood, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city and home to many politicians and local celebrities, where you'll see Ceausescu's house. Nicolae Ceausescu actually occupied a whole block of villas, including one for his security guards and one for domestic servants, and so, this place has remained an exclusive district since then.
Your tour ends at Victory Square, where you'll see Victoria Palace, headquarters of the Prime Minister of Romania and his cabinet.
Discover the beauty and architecture of historic Bucharest during this full-day tour that includes visits to the Patriarchy Church, Village Museum, a short stop for photo at the Palace of Parliament and another top in Revolution Square. Upon arrival in Bucharest, your sightseeing drive will take you through the tree-lined boulevards and busy squares en route to the most popular and important attractions in the city. Along the way, you will see a diverse mix of architecture reflecting various epochs and cultures. As you pass by the Press Square, you will see the enormous Press House, or “Casa Presei”, a scale replica of the Moscow Lomonosov Technical University and the symbol of Stalinist culture.
Built in 1957, the Press House is currently home to an abundance of editorial offices, and to the Romanian Stock Exchange. Your tour continues with a visit to the Village Museum, one of the world's most interesting open-air ethnographical parks. Founded in 1936, this museum measures one square-mile and displays more than 300 wooden and stone houses reflecting the history and diversity of Romania's rural architecture. Once known as Little Paris, Romania's capital has its own Arch of Triumph, which you will see as you drive along the elegant Soseaua Kiseleff, named after a famous Russian general, a former governor of Bucharest in early 19th century.
The 88-foot-high structure was erected in 1922, and is dedicated to the victories of the Romanian armies during World War I. Crossing Victoria Square, you will then make a photo stop in the Revolution Square, the place of Ceausescu’s last speech and the main stage of the Romanian 1989 Revolution. Here, you will also see the following architectural monuments: the neoclassical Romanian Athenaeum, the Royal Palace (constructed in 1937 and housing the National Art Museum), the University Library, the 1722 Kretzulescu Church and the former HQ of the Romanian Communist Party.
Continuing down Victory Road you’ll see the attractive buildings situated next to the oldest part of the city: the 1900 National History Museum and the 1st Romanian Savings Bank. A stop will be made at a cozy restaurant located in the center of Bucharest, for a delicious Romanian-style lunch. Then you’ll be stopping in front of the 12-story Palace of Parliament, the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon. Though a reminder of Romania's Communist epoch, Romanians are extremely proud of the Palace, which was designed exclusively by Romanian architects using solely Romanian materials. After your photo stop, you will do a brief visit of the Patriarchy (Metropolitan) Church, the most important Romanian Orthodox church in the country. After the visit you will return to Constanta.
Meeting/ Pick up point: The clients will be picked up from their accommodation.
Duration: 10 hours 30 minutes.
Start or opening time: 08:30 am.
Languages: Available guide in English, or another language: German, Italian, French, Spanish, if available upon client's request.
Accompanied by our professional guides venture into the old neighborhoods of Bucharest where you will discover the history, the architecture and charm of places that most locals don’t even know exist.
The evolution of Bucharest shared many aspects with towns in the Ottoman Empire. One of these shared aspects was the division by Mahallas. Mahallas were small quarters of the town which arose around a religious building and which were often inhabited by a homogeneous community of people belonging to the same ethnic, social or religious groups.
As the town grew, mahallas fused with each other giving birth to wider neighborhoods that suffered through waves of modernization, earthquakes, wars and Ceausescu's demolition projects. This was the fate of neighborhoods like the Armenian Quarter, Mantuleasa, the Old Jewish Quarter & Batistei. Discover and learn about all the mixtures of architecture, cultures and cuisines. This tour includes: quaint neighborhoods full of history/landmark or strange buildings/belle époque and modernist architecture/the most romantic hang out places available in the city/the oldest house in Bucharest/art galleries and trendy local shops.
To top it all off, we have also included is some leisure time in Bucharest’s most beautiful summer gardens, in true balcanic style.
The Cultural capital of Europe, Sibiu was once the king of the Transylvanian Saxon towns, serving as capital and dominating cultural activity. Sibiu is home to the first hospital in Romania (1292), the first pharmacy (1494) and the oldest museum in Romania, the Brukenthal Museum, opened in 1817.
We visit, also, Astra open air village museum. Located in the natural reservation of Dumbrava Sibiului, on the road to Rasinari village and to Paltinis ski resort, 8 kilometers away from the city centre, the Open Air Museum spreads across a 96 ha area of which an area of 40 ha is covered by the permanent exhibition which is the largest open air ethnographic exhibition in Europe.
Improve your history and art knowledge by visiting the an unique monastery in Bucovina worldwide famous once included in UNESCO World Heritage. The tour starts in Iasi, Moldavia’s largest town, the main educational center, known as the city of the great ideas or the city of the seven hills like Rome or Lisbon.
Capital of Romanian United Principalities two times between 1859-1862 and 1916-1918, at this moment Iasi is considered Romania’s Cultural Capital. Part of Moldavia, Bucovina became region administrated by Austro-Hungarian Empire between 1775 until 1918 following to Russian Austrian conflicts. It offers picturesque landscapes with low mountains covered by forest and rivers valleys hiding peaceful monasteries some of them founded half of millennium ago.
First stop is Voronet Monastery, known as The Sistine Chapel of Eastern Europe due its exterior blue frescoes showing “The Last Judgment”. The next leg will take us to Agapia Monastery, a famous nouns monastery, dated 17th century painted by one of the best known Romanian painters, Nicolae Grigorescu.
The last stop will be at Neamt Fortress, dated late 14th century, part of the former Moldavian defense system once. Along the time, the citadel was the main guardian on Moldova and Siret valleys but also on the gateway to Transylvania, becoming one of the major Fortress of Moldova, because of the many works of strengthening during the time of Stephen the Great who leaded Moldavia almost for his entire life dedicated to a permanent fight against the Ottoman Empire. The building was declared a historical monument in 1866 and is major lanndmark for a visit in the North East Romania.
You’re invited to dine with the most famous of all vampires: Dracula! Take a bite out of Transylvanian cuisine and lore, with this horror-themed dinner party where a few ghoulish tales will be served along with your 5-course meal.
Join us for a vampire-style, horror-themed dinner with a bite while you’re in Transylvania, the land of Dracula! After we meet at City Hall, your local guide will lead you through the old city centre of Turda to Dracula’s saloon. Along the way, you’ll hear a few tales of Transylvania’s rich past and get to admire the lovely Habsburg architecture.
The Iaki Spa Hotel is one of the most famous and important establishments of It's kind in Romania, providing a wide variety of SPA services at the highest quality. With this new multi day package the offer is meant to cater to your mind and body's every need. Retreat from the day to day life to a world of tranquility and relaxation.
Happiness and Equilibrium.
Day 1
Yonka Intermezzo: An introduction treatment to the Yon-Ka world that brings to your skin the active principles of plants and the vitalizing energy of the essential oils of lavender, cypress, thyme, geranium, rosemary and their subtle flavors. 20 minutes.
Vichy Shower -or Salt Bath : Vichy shower - effects of this hydrotherapy technique are the total relaxation of the muscles of the body, removing dead cells and soften the skin, and mental relaxation. 20 minutes or : Therapeutic bath with salt from the Dead Sea or Epsom salt restores the body by removing toxins, improving the mineral balance of the body and relaxation. 15 minutes.
Day 2
Wrapping with mud from the Dead Sea or honey :The wrapping rituals are extremely beneficial because, first, have the effect of getting a pleasant appearance of the skin and, secondly, offer a warm, intimate atmosphere. 50 minutes.
Day 3
Relaxation massage :General massage, very effective in treating fatigue and generate an enhanced wellbeing. 50 minutes.
Day 4
Wrapping with mud from the Dead Sea or honey : The wrapping rituals are extremely beneficial because, first, have the effect of getting a pleasant appearance of the skin and, secondly, offer a warm, intimate atmosphere. 50 minutes.
Day 5
Gerovital Equilibrium Hydratation Facial Treatment :Created as a range exclusively for salons, Equilibrium at an advanced level covers the specific needs of every skin type. 50 minutes.
Daily access to aquagym, spinning, swimming lessons, full body training according to displayed schedule.
Beauty and Relaxation
Day 1
Yonka Escale Beaute (for her) / Men Express (for him): Personalized, natural and performing treatments, that bring to your skin the active principles of plants and vitalizing energy of essential oils of lavender, cypress, thyme, geranium, rosemary and their subtle flavors. 30 minutes.
Day 2
Iaki Candle Oil (for her) :Ritual that begins with a body scrub with brown sugar and fine sweet almond oil, followed by an intense hydration with hot candle oil applied with lomi lomi massage specific movements. The result is a smooth skin, and a unique sense of wellbeing. 50 minutes or Hot stone massage (for him) : One of the ancient therapeutic techniques used for decontracting the muscles, balancing energy and detoxification. 50 minutes.
Day 3
Relaxation massage and scalp massage : General massage, very effective in treating fatigue and generating an enhanced wellbeing. 50 minutes. The scalp massage helps stimulate peripheral blood circulation and induce a strong sense of relaxation. 15 min.
Day 4
Vichy Shower or Salt Bath : Vichy shower - effects of this hydrotherapy technique are the total relaxation of the muscles of the body, removing dead cells and soften the skin, and mental relaxation. 20 minutes or Therapeutic bath with salt from the Dead Sea or Epsom salt restores the body by removing toxins, improving the mineral balance of the body and relaxation. 15 minutes.
Day 5
Anti-age Gerovital Equilibrium : Created as a range designed exclusively for salons, Equilibrium covers at an advanced level the specific needs of every skin type. 50 minutes.
Daily access to aquagym, spinning, swimming lessons, full body training according to displayed schedule.