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Corina Chirileasa RomaniaBucharestBeyond.com Bucharest, 2018 2019 Romania: Bucharest & Beyond 2019 Essentials version Romania: Bucharest & Beyond Bucharest landmarks & Centennial sights Main cities & regions This is a selection of content from the book Including special chapter: 2019 Romania: Bucharest & Beyond You can buy the full book at RomaniaBucharestBeyond.com #PositiveRomania Charming villages, castles & adventure tourism Bucharest, 2018 RomaniaBucharestBeyond.com Welcome letter Welcome letter 4 Published by City Compass Media Partners City Compass Media/Business Insider SRL. Andrei Chirileasa, Corina Chirileasa, More than a travel guide... Bucharest, November 2018 Grégoire Vigroux, Volker Moser CITY COMPASS ROMANIA: Editors of this guide This is not (just) a travel guide. It’s not just Insider Awards series was born in 2018 — you can BUCHAREST & BEYOND, 2019 Corina Chirileasa [email protected] read all about it and the winners of this first edition E about the places we recommend you to visit, By Chirileasa Corina Simona Fodor [email protected] on page 166. Over 20 partners joined this cause in its nor just about the things we encourage you incipient year and we’re committed to making it even ISBN: 978-973-0-28118-7 Proofreading to try in Romania. It’s also about discovering bigger and better for 2019. Giles Eldridge this country and its people through their Apart from our regular recommendations from all 2,000 copies (printed edition) & e-book around Romania (which we update every year when www.romaniabucharestbeyond.com Contributors past and their present. we publish new editions of this book), we’ve also Bogdan Popa, Floriana Scânteie, Ioana Enache, Irina chosen several charming villages and several castles Chirileasa, Marlena Grzeda, Matt Sampalean, Oana Through the stories in this book, and with each of the to feature in this edition. You can get inspired in our Pascu, Peninah Zilberman, Ruxandra Stan, Simona yearly editions we publish, you’ll know more and more #PositiveRomania chapter on page 56. Avram, Thorsten Kirschner, Volker Moser about Romania. I hope this book will be a good reading companion This book will offer a balanced combination of on your strolls, travels, flights and on your busy or Design & layout carefully curated highlights about main regions, cities, off days, in Romania or elsewhere. We’ve kept its PQB Digital Business Communication resorts and practical and updated listings for places practical format, upgraded the design here and there, [email protected] around Romania and its capital Bucharest. and tried to be even more brief and practical to fit into Photos The launch of this 11th edition of our guide this hectic world. Adobe Stock, Kathrin Weident, Shutterstock coincides with an important celebration for Romania: I do recommend you also check Romania-Insider.com 100 years since its Great Union in 1918. A perfect time throughout the year, as we’re relaunching the site and Advertising sales to look back and understand how Romania came to be adding more valuable content and new columns there. Irina Chirileasa and what people shaped its last century. Topping it You can always reach out to me directly for ideas or Founders of City Compass Group [email protected] up with a list of places to visit to soak in the history. just feedback. Volker Moser, Christian Pauls, Cristian Bizău Check the dedicated Centennial chapter at page 45 to Enjoy Romania! Administrative support discover all these. City Compass Tours & Events Partners Ruxandra Stan We’re more than ever dedicated to showing a Thorsten Kirschner, Volker Moser [email protected] positive side of Romania. We all need positive models, CORINA CHIRILEASA now more than ever. 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Wwww.romania-insider.com Table of contents Table of contents 6 What’s inside the full guide centennial special discover romania District 1 70–71 District 2 8 Buzău 10 Sinaia District 6 District 3 12 Brașov bucharest District 5 14 More mountain resorts District 4 practical handbook Map of Bucharest 16 Cluj-Napoca neighborhoods 17 Alba Iulia 68 Centennial sights in Bucharest 72 Old Town listings 18 Sibiu 89–92 20 Sighișoara 79 Pipera & Băneasa listings 21 Moldova & Bucovina 82 Transport essentials 23 Maramureș 46 Romania Centennial Timeline 86 House & home tips 24 Danube Delta 48 The Great Union story 88 Shopping options 26 Dobrogea & Seaside 49 The people who shaped Romania Bucharest landmarks 28 Near Bucharest 52 Centennial places in Romania Architectural icons, churches, museums 29 Romania listings and parks not to miss in the capital. bucharest 93 practical listings positive romania 166 Carefully selected recommendations of places to check, things to do, useful 59 contacts in Bucharest: Eating & Drinking Shopping 56 Charming Hotels Legal & business Romanian villages Transport House & home Romania Insider Awards 63 Concerts & cultural Healthcare Family & children Personal care Fun & entertainment Uncovering #PositiveRomania & the events winners of the 2018 edition. Education Emergency numbers 64 Adventure tourism Culture Castles to visit this year 164 Alphabetical table of contents 7 City Compass Table of contents 8 Essentials about Romania Local time: Romanian time is GMT +2. Summertime Ethnicity: 89% Romanians, 6.5% Hungarians, 3.2% Discover starts on the last Sunday in March (03:00 becomes Roma, 0.3% others. 04:00), and wintertime on the last Sunday in October Religion: majority – Christian Orthodox, a small (04:00 becomes 03:00). minority of Roman Catholics and Greek Catholics. Pronunciation & special signs: we use the following Romania Climate: temperate – cold, cloudy winters with frequent special signs (diacritics) in our guide: snow and fog; sunny & hot summers with frequent ʡ Ț/ț is pronounced TS like ‘ts’ in ‘skits’ showers and thunderstorms. ʡ Ș/ș is pronounced SH like ‘shoe’ Lowest point: Black Sea – 0 meters. Highest point: ʡ Ă/ă, Â/â and Î/î are difficult, but not impossible, Mount Moldoveanu – 2,544 meters. For journeys to Romania’s main for most foreigners to master, and they eventually Natural resources: petroleum, timber, gas, coal, iron do. They sort of sound like ‘uh’ but we recommend ore, gold, silver, salt, arable land, hydropower. regions and cities, a selection of that you just listen very closely as a Romanian Natural hazards: earthquakes, landslides, floods. pronounces them, and then practice thousands of highlights and recommendations. Form of organization: Republic, with a President and times. Seriously! a Prime Minister who runs the Government. It has a Conversions: Romania used the metric system. Parliament with two Chambers. 1 m = 3.3 ft = 1.1 yd = 39.4 inches Membership: EU since 2007, NATO since 2004. 1 km = 0.62 miles 1 kg = 2.2 lb = 35.3 oz Currency: the Leu – symbol: RON. The Leu is a 8 Buzău 20 Sighișoara 1 L = 0.26 US gallons controlled floating currency: exchange rates against 10 Sinaia 21 Moldova & Bucovina the EUR, USD and other currencies are set daily by the Location: Central and Eastern Europe, bordered by country’s Central Bank (BNR). Hungary (W), Bulgaria (S), Ukraine (NE), the Republic 12 Brașov 23 Maramureș of Moldova (E), Serbia (SW) and the Black Sea (SE). Gross Domestic Product: € 187.5 bln (in 2017). 14 More mountain resorts 24 Danube Delta Romania has 225 km of coastline.