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Private Walking Tour: Essential Bucharest + Hidden Gems

Name: Private Walking Tour: Essential Bucharest + Hidden Gems
Brand: Wonderplan
Rating: 5.0 (53 reviews)

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2 hours – 3 hours

About This Experience

Discover a Bucharest that's very much alive and constantly changing. From the belle époque, turn-of-the-century iconic Victory Avenue downtown also with some 1930s Manhattan influences to the new Civic Centre, a 1980s totalitarian utopia turned current dystopia dominated by the surroundings of the largest Parliament in the world, you get the full experience and the chance to understand this unforgiving city that many love to hate while uncovering hidden gems off the beaten path. Mandatory observations along the dedicated routes also come with exciting side information.

Tour Itinerary

30 min

Experience the most famous avenue in Bucharest, with its amazing landmarks! Palaces, museums and mansions tell the story of how this great street was turned into the centre of highlife in the first part of the last centry. Travel through the decades and learn how Victory Avenue was affected by wars and earthquakes and how it was reborn. Explore hidden places and uncover urban mysteries right at the heart of the Romanian Capital to get a flavour of Bucharest eclectism at its best!

45 min

Our guide will offer exclusive insights about iconic landmarks on the square

15 min

Our guide will offer exclusive insights about iconic landmarks on the square

30 min

Our guide will offer exclusive insights about iconic landmarks on the avenue

45 min

Everyone knows the Parliament (a.k.a. the People's House), that gigantic palace in the heart of Bucharest and the large avenues surrounding it, but is that what Bucharest is all about? This tours goes behind the scenes and unveils how the Romanian Capital's central street network was destroyed, how historical areas were cut off from the city life, became isolated and started decaying, all of them sacrificed for a new, dystopian city centre where Ceaușescu would rule supreme.