Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania.
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.71 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.33 million residents, which makes Bucharest the fifteenth-largest city in Europe. The city has an area of 239 km2 (92 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 1,803 km2 (696 sq mi). The city proper is administratively known as the "Municipality of Bucharest", and has the same administrative level as that of a national county, being further subdivided into six sectors, each governed by a local mayor. Bucharest is a major cultural, political and economic hub, the country's seat of government, and the capital of the Muntenia region. It is an enclave completely surrounded by Ilfov County.
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Worth seeing in and around Bucharest
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest is a public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on 4 July 1864 by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy into the current University of Bucharest, making it one of the oldest Romanian universities.
400 m · university in Bucharest, Romania · Wikipedia - 02Palace of the Parliament
The Palace of the Parliament, initially designed during Communist times as the People's House or the House of the Republic, is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, located atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital. The Palace reaches a height of 84 m, is 92 m deep underground, has a floor area of 365,000 m2 and a volume of 2,550,000 m3.
1.4 km · multi-purpose building in Romania · Wikipedia - 03National Arena
The National Arena is a retractable roof football stadium in Bucharest, Romania. It opened in 2011 on the site of the original National Stadium, which was demolished between 2007 and 2008.
3.9 km · football stadium in Bucharest, Romania · Wikipedia - 04National Library of Romania
The National Library of Romania is the national library of Romania, located at 22 Unirii Boulevard in central Bucharest. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in Romania.
900 m · national library · Wikipedia - 05National Cathedral
The National Cathedral, also known as the People's Salvation Cathedral, is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, built to serve as the patriarchal cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church. It is located in central Bucharest on Spirea's Hill, facing the Palace of Parliament.
1.9 km · cathedral in Bucharest · Wikipedia - 06Romanian Athenaeum
The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania, and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's most prestigious concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu Festival.
1.1 km · Neoclassical concert hall in Bucharest, Romania · Wikipedia - 07Senate
The Senate is the upper house in the bicameral Parliament of Romania. It has 136 seats, to which members are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation in 43 electoral districts, to serve four-year terms.
1.4 km · upper house of the Romanian Parliament · Wikipedia - 08National Museum of Art of Romania
The National Museum of Art of Romania is located in the Royal Palace in Revolution Square, central Bucharest. It features collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family.
1 km · major art museum in Bucharest, Romania · Wikipedia - 09Herăstrău Park
King Michael I Park, formerly Herăstrău Park, is a large park on the northern side of Bucharest, Romania, around Lake Herăstrău, one of the lakes formed by the Colentina River.
5.5 km · public park in Bucharest · Wikipedia - 10Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral
The Romanian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral is a functioning religious and civic landmark, on Dealul Mitropoliei, in Bucharest, Romania. It is located near the Palace of the Chamber of Deputies of the Patriarchate of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
1 km · heritage site in Bucharest, Romania · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do
There are two free weekly guides published in Bucharest featuring all the events of the week, as well as listing the addresses of most restaurants, clubs, pubs, bars, cinemas etc. in the city. One is Șapte Seri (Seven nights), the other 24-FUN. They have small sections in English available. = = A walking tour is a good way to get accustomed with a new city.
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Getting to Bucharest
- Airports
- Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu (BBU), 8 km · Bucharest Henri Coandă (OTP), 15 km · Brașov-Ghimbav (GHV), 149 km
- Stations
- Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, 7.9 km · Bucharest North railway station, 2.8 km
- Brașov (Ghimbav) → Bucharest149 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · lei44–60
- Craiova → Bucharest184 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · lei55–70
- Constanța → Bucharest203 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · lei50–70
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bucharest
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bucharest. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor anywhere in Bucharest city, reckon to pay for a small car (like a taxi, max 3 passengers), and for a 7-seater minibus—larger vehicles and coaches are available.
- Get in{{listing | name Autogara Filaret | url office@acfilaret.ro | address 44.41567 | long South - linked to downtown by tram 7 and bus 232 | phone | fax | price Filaret 2.jpg | wikidata=Q678737 |lastedit Buses and minibuses from Chișinău (7-8 buses every day, about 10 hours travel time, tickets around ) arrive mostly here.
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Next door to Bucharest
Bucharest is 5 km from Sector 3, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.