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Bucharest is a living, breathing city which captivates visitors. It lives with all its years and architectural styles. It doesnﾒt put the past on a pedestal behind a glass case. It is a city of contrasts and complexities. Blur time as you walk through French baroque palaces, grey housing blocks, remains of medieval churches and 21st century office buildings. In Bucharestﾒs center is the worldﾒs second largest building, Parliament Palace with tours including the view from Nicolae Ceausescuﾒs balcony. The Old Center remains intact and contains different 19th century buildings on narrow cobblestone streets and hotels, clubs, restaurants and shops. Revolution Square was a site during the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Bucharest has Romaniaﾒs best museums and a lot of them. They range from Art Museums to the Village Museum with around 300 traditional buildings. There are some stunning old churches and monasteries like the Curtae Vecha (Old Court) Church built around 1559 used for the coronation of the Wallachian princes, and Stavoropoleos Church built in the early 18th century with arresting sculptures and frescoes.

Romania brings tales of vampires to mind. It's a great place to go and see living past culture. Even today it is not unusual to see horse-drawn buggies. In contrast, Romania is also very up to date in some urban areas and there are many monuments that stand as reminders of its communist past. Romania: home of the Carpathian mountains, Constantin Brancusi, wine, medieval fortresses, Dacia cars, stuffed cabbage leaves, multi-ethnic peace, the Black Sea, sunflower fields, painted monasteries and the Danube Delt