Guide to Bucharest

Those who have not been to Bucharest before, usually dream of coming and walking through the places that are associated with the name of Count Dracula, or rather Vlad Tepes - the real prototype of the famous vampire. But there are other discoveries waiting for the tourist in the city, because it is not for nothing that Bucharest is called the city of contrasts. The second place in its bloody history is occupied by Nicolae Ceausescu, who significantly changed the image of the city.

In the communist era, industrial production was opened here, working neighborhoods grew and the architectural appearance changed significantly. Historic buildings were replaced by faceless reinforced concrete structures. Now, next to an elegant building in the French Bozar style, a typical high-rise building can rise. The crowning achievement of the Soviet architectural era was the gigantic Palace of Parliament, which in size is second only to the Pentagon building in the United States. A part of the historic district was destroyed for its sake.

In the time of communism not everything managed to be wiped off the face of the earth. The historic part of the city has something to surprise connoisseurs of masterpieces of bygone eras. After all, the city still holds the status of "Little Paris". It has its own Arc de Triomphe, Romanian Champs Elysees. On Revolution Square, where the Ceausescu couple was shot, stands the orthodox Cretulescu Church, the Royal Palace, which houses the Romanian National Museum of Art, and much more.