15 Days Trips In Romania, Moldavia, Bulgaria

Leave Bucharest then we start the day by exploring the ancient town of Veliko Tarnovo, with sights such as the Tsarevets Fortress and the Samovodene Street, famous for the craftsmen there. Then we continue to the nearby village of Arbanassi, where you will visit the Nativity Church and the Konstantsalieva House. Afterwards, we head back to Romania to catch a Bucharest Panoramic City Tour. We spend the night in Bucharest.

We leave Bucharest and head for Sibiu.  On the way, we stop to visit the Curtea de Arges Monastery to see the Romanian version of the Sagrada Familia, in an orthodox reinterpretation and a toned down zest for architectural lacery. We move on to check off other historical monuments on our list that were left behind by Romanian rulers and the Royal Family on these mythical lands.  We buckle up and venture up the 1400 steps to reach the Poienari Citadel (the “real” Castle of Dracula) which was the place where Vlad the Impaler would retreat in the event of an Ottoman invasion. We stop to take pictures to bring home to our friends, knowing that they will make them a little jealous.  At the end of the day, we relax and collect our thoughts with a walk through the Sibiu Old Town, where we spend the night.

We are discovering Transylvania step by step, as it is and not as it is said to be, each with their own considerations, tastes, perception, and camera angles.  We start with something unique, a gothic castle considered to be among the top 10 most beautiful in the world. If you ever daydreamed about a magical castle when you were little, the Hunyadi Castle, also known as the Corvin Castle is probably the spitting image of what you had in mind.  We sink further into history and the tour brings us in front of the oldest church in Romania, the Densus Church.  The end of the day will find us in Alba Iulia, an extension of the ancient Roman Apullum castrum, which was later transformed into a star-shaped Vauban fortress, surrounded by several lines of defense.  We spend the night in Alba Iulia where we will dream of saints immortalized in mural painting on the ancient church walls, knights, battles, and invasions, still mesmerized by everything we discovered on the third day of our trip. We spend the night in Alba Iulia.