Little Paris of the East, Carpathians nearby. Here is when to go, what a day costs on site and what to see, then Okela composes your itinerary hour by hour.

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When to visit Bucharest

Best months: May, June, September and October.

What to see in Bucharest

1. Palais du Parlement
   Built on Ceaușescu's orders, this giant of marble and crystal shows the full excess of a regime, and you leave with a very concrete sense of what communist Romania was like.
2. Vieille ville (Lipscani)
   Lipscani was the merchant heart of old Bucharest, and the district still has that energy: narrow lanes, nineteenth-century facades that are sometimes restored and sometimes still worn, and hidden courtyards.
3. Athénée roumain
   This neoclassical concert hall, opened in 1889, is one of Bucharest's defining landmarks.
4. Musée du Village
   This open-air museum brings together houses, wooden churches and farm buildings from different regions of Romania, set along quiet lanes close to Lake Herăstrău.
5. Parc Herăstrău
   This is the big green lung of northern Bucharest, stretched along a lake where the noise of the city fades quickly.
6. Cărturești Carusel
   A bookshop set in a former historic building in the old town, where white curving galleries stack up around a bright central atrium.
7. Obor (marché)
   Obor is one of Bucharest's big everyday markets, and one of the best places to see the city at work.
8. Caru' cu Bere
   Housed in a late nineteenth-century building, this large Bucharest beer hall keeps an Art Nouveau interior with carved woodwork, stained glass and decorated ceilings.

A sample itinerary for Bucharest, three days

Composed by Okela from the places in its database, with times. Yours takes your dates, pace and group into account.

Budget

Expect about €74 per person per day on site (accommodation, meals, transport and visits), depending on the comfort you choose. Okela shows the price of every step of your itinerary.

My Bucharest itinerary, hour by hour

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