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Professional Tour Manager that will be also the driver Local tour guide in Romania

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Overnight in 3/4 * Hotel with breakfast included as indicated in the itinerary All breakfasts included Transport by minibus / coach with air conditioning English speaking Tour Manager that will accompany the group for the duration of the tour

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Touring by private modern air-conditioned minivan.

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Overnight in 3/4 * Hotel with breakfast included as indicated in the itinerary

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Tips for tour manager / driver Entrance fees to museums/churches/national parks ecc

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!! In case you will need a transfer to the airport or any other extra services please ask the tour manager in advance if it is possible to organize it and let you know also the price. The order can be changed based on multiple factors like weather, traffic conditions and restrictions, national holidays, ecc but all the visits will be done as indicated in the itinerary, changing just the order keeping in mind that all this is done for your safety or to make more enjoyable your tour. In case that all the members of the tour have a special request to see something else that it is not in the itinerary and it requests also extra miles the tour manager after a discussion with our sales department will let you know the extra cost or if we can make it complimentary.

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Day 1 Day 1: Saturday - Budapest – Timisoara
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Saturday - Budapest – Timisoara

Pick-up from your hotel around 09.00 a.m. and transfer to Romania where you will meet the local tour guide. Visit Timisoara, a very charming city for its architectural features for many Turkish, Serbian, Austrian and German elements, which will become the European Capital of Culture in 2021. Overnight in Timisoara in a 4* hotel.
Day 2 Day 2: Sunday - Timisoara – Corvini’S Castle – Alba Iulia – Sibiu
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Sunday - Timisoara – Corvini’S Castle – Alba Iulia – Sibiu

In the morning we will visit the most fascinating gothic castle in Eastern Europe and one of the most beautiful and greatest of our continent, the famous Corvin Castle. Later, we will go to Alba Iulia, an important city from a historical point of view, because the Great United Romania was made here on December 1st, 1918, so immediately after the First World War. In the evening we will arrive in Sibiu, the European Capital of Culture in 2007, dominated by the Tower of the Clock or Council Tower dating to the medieval era and by the extensive 18th – 19th century Brukenthal museum, the former residence of the governor of Transylvania. The big square, the small square and Huet Square, with the Evangelical Cathedral, show off in all their beauty. We will spend the night in Sibiu, in a 3 * hotel.
Day 3 Day 3: Monday - Sibiu – Sighisoara – Targu Mures – Bistrita (260 Km)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Monday - Sibiu – Sighisoara – Targu Mures – Bistrita (260 Km)

Breakfast at the hotel and departure to the city of Sighisoara. This citadel is the best preserved in Europe and, extraordinary, it is still inhabited. Since 1999 the historic center of Sighisoara is a UNESCO heritage site. Here we will admire the church on the hill, reachable after a wooden staircase called the schoolchildren’s ladder. We will also see the statue of the famous Hungarian national poet Petofi Sandor, testifying to the fact that in Sighisoara the Magyar community was in the past numerically important. Next to the statue is the beautiful Catholic church, reserved for the Hungarian community, and the tower of the shoemakers. Lunch at the house where Vlad the Impaler was born (not included) and in the late afternoon arrival at Targu Mures, a city in which the baroque style predominates. Targu Mures is dominated by the beautiful Palace of Culture, symbol of the locality, an extraordinary baroque palace. In this transylvanian city, the Hungarian community is still numerous and the architects who have worked on the design of historic buildings are all Hungarians. Towards evening I arrive at the city of Bistrita, whose main monument is the Lutheran church, built in the fourteenth century in Gothic style but remodeled with Renaissance elements in the second half of the sixteenth century. Overnight in a 3 * hotel in Bistrita.
Day 4 Day 4: Tuesday - Bistrita – Voronet – Moldovita – Sucevita – Marginea – Gura Humorului (250 Km)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Tuesday - Bistrita – Voronet – Moldovita – Sucevita – Marginea – Gura Humorului (250 Km)

We have breakfast and depart to Bucovina that means land covered by forests of beech trees. There is no other place in the world like Bucovina in North Moldavia, where a group of Orthodox monasteries with their external wall paintings can be admired. These painted monasteries are part of the UNESCO World Heritage for their rarity and beauty. Visit three of the most important monasteries from Bucovina: Moldovita, Sucevita and Voronet monasteries. (Voronet became famous among art lovers thanks to two features of its painting: blue, made with a formula still unknown, called "blue Voronet" and the magnificent scene depicting "The Last Judgement"). Overnight in Hotel Gerald's 4* in Radauti or Best Western 4* in Gura Humorului.
Day 5 Day 5: Wednesday - Gura Humorului– Piatra Neamt – Bicaz Gorges – Miercurea Ciuc (290 Km)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Wednesday - Gura Humorului– Piatra Neamt – Bicaz Gorges – Miercurea Ciuc (290 Km)

Breakfast at the hotel and departure to the Bicaz Gorges. Stop in Piatra Neamt, a famous ski resort that preserves a beautiful citadel founded at the time of Stephen the Great, in the fifteenth century and an 18th century synagogue. The city has a wonderful geographical position being surrounded by mountains that guard beautiful lush vegetation. Then we will head towards the Bicaz Gorges and then admire a breathtaking landscape. The Bicaz gorges are crossed by a road flanked by a stream and constitute a landscape of strong emotional impact with thrilling cliffs. Along the gorges there is a market with typical handicrafts and souvenirs that make the attraction even more lively. Visit of the Red Lake, a natural barrier lake, which was formed following the landslide of a part of a mountain, in fact the trunks of the trees are still present in the lake and this gives a particularly evocative atmosphere. The place is interesting especially for the legends that were born and have spread in reference to the name of the lake. During the visit you will become aware of these legends. You then continue through a scenic road that offers a spectacular view of the Carpathian chain to get to Miercurea Ciuc. This area is also called the Siberia of Romania for the low temperatures and the landscape that characterize this area. Overnight in a 3* hotel in Miercurea Ciuc.
Day 6 Day 6: Thursday - Miercurea Ciuc – Brasov – Bran – Sinaia (180 Km)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Thursday - Miercurea Ciuc – Brasov – Bran – Sinaia (180 Km)

Breakfast and then immediately departure to Brasov, a wonderful Transylvanian town, once entirely fortified, an important cultural, tourist and commercial center. Brasov impresses with its typically German architecture, where the Gothic, the Baroque and the Renaissance intersect to give life to an interesting and culturally very lively city. Visit of the First Romanian School, which is located in the oldest district of the city, and which was inhabited exclusively by Romanians, the Schei district, interesting for the entrances into the city that were carried out in medieval times through the Catherine’s and Schei Gate, quest last of the nineteenth century. In Brasov we will also visit the impressive Black Church, the largest evangelical Gothic church in Eastern Europe, with a 65 meter high bell tower and a length of 90 meters, the church houses the most beautiful nineteenthcentury mechanical organ of Romania. We will then admire the palaces and houses of the historic center, recently restored, with the Council Square which now houses a beautiful museum, and the pedestrian Avenue of the Republic. Later we proceed to Bran where we will visit the famous Bran Castle, better known as Dracula’s Castle. In the Middle Ages, Bran was exactly on the border between Wallachia and Transylvania, so it was essential for the inhabitants of Brasov to build and preserve a defensive stronghold. In the 90s of the 900 this fortress was transformed into a beautiful castle thanks to the intervention of Queen Maria of Romania. In the evening arrival in Sinaia, the pearl of the Carpathians. Overnight in a 4* hotel in Sinaia.
Day 7 Day 7: Thursday - Sinaia – Bucharest (130 Km)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Thursday - Sinaia – Bucharest (130 Km)

In the morning visit the Peles Castle, considered among the most beautiful in Europe. Peles Castle is a masterpiece of eclectic architecture dominated by neo German Renaissance style. Stained-glass windows with scenes from German fairy tales, chandeliers in Murano glass, fine wood carvings and gold or Cordoba leather-paneled walls, Sevre porcelain and ivory carvings are completing the picture of the favourite residence of the royal family and especially of Queen Elizabeth. Peles Castle may be considered the castle of Records - it was the first building of its kind to have since the construction a central heating system and elevator - in the theatre ordered by the queen was presented for the first time in Romania a movie. Departure in the morning, a visit to the fabulous Peles Castle, the summer residence of the first king of Romania, the King Charles 1 of Hohenzollern, of German origins. The castle was beautifully designed by a Czech architect, and is famous for being one of the most modern castles in Europe at the time of its construction, between the 19th and 20th centuries. Each room is characterized by a unique style, different from the styles of the other rooms. We will also admire the Florentine room, where we will breathe a typically Italian and Renaissance atmosphere. We continue towards Bucharest and enjoy a panoramic tour of Bucharest with its Triumph Arch, Atheneum, Revolution Square and Parliament Palace.

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7 Days Transylvania & Bucovina From Budapest To Bucharest

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Itinerary of your trip 7 Days Transylvania & Bucovina From Budapest To Bucharest

Day 1: Saturday - Budapest – Timisoara

Day 2: Sunday - Timisoara – Corvini’S Castle – Alba Iulia – Sibiu

Day 3: Monday - Sibiu – Sighisoara – Targu Mures – Bistrita (260 Km)

Day 4: Tuesday - Bistrita – Voronet – Moldovita – Sucevita – Marginea – Gura Humorului (250 Km)

Day 5: Wednesday - Gura Humorului– Piatra Neamt – Bicaz Gorges – Miercurea Ciuc (290 Km)

Day 6: Thursday - Miercurea Ciuc – Brasov – Bran – Sinaia (180 Km)

Day 7: Thursday - Sinaia – Bucharest (130 Km)

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