| Bucharest sightseeing tour |
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The best way to fully appreciate Bucharest is to spend a full day of in-depth exploring. We stroll on the major boulevards, starting with the huge Civic Center, where we make a stop for a visit of the impressive Parliament Palace, up the Triumph Arch. Here we pay a visit to the open air Village Museum, were we can admire village architecture and crafts from all over Romania.
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Brasov was founded in 1211 by the Teutonic Knights and later occupied by Saxons, who called the settlement Kronstadt. The town became a center of
Protestantism and was a commercial center of the principality of Transylvania. In 1535 Johannes Honterus established the first printing press in
Transylvania in Brasov. In 1867 all of Transylvania, including Brasov, was incorporated into Hungary, and in 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the
region passed to Romania. From 1950 to 1960 the city was called Orasul Stalin (Stalin City) to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Places of interest in the city include remnants of a citadel built in 1553, a 14th-century Gothic church, the 13th-century Church of Saint
Bartholomew, and the town hall (1420). Two cultural centers are the Brasov Regional Library, which has collections of ancient Romanian manuscripts,
and a historical museum housed in the 15th-century building of the first Romanian school. The Transylvania University of Brasov (founded in 1971) is
also here.
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