Bucharest Evening Tour – 2 hours

The Bucharest Evening Tour starts at 7 PM in front of the Romanian Athenaeum, next to the entrance stairs. Here, you will meet the tour guide and be presented with details about the tour. 

In the beginning, you will admire the Romanian Athenaeum, the symbol of Bucharest. It represents the Romanian National Philharmonic Hall hosting major classical music concerts and conferences every week. 

Walk to Revolution Square, where you will learn about the communist sufferings an entire nation endured. You’ll see the Memorial of Rebirth and find out how the communist regime fell in December 1989. There are many impressive buildings around Revolution Square, such as The National Art Museum, the Kretzulescu Church, the Central Library University, and several others. You’ll get explanations and lesser-known facts about every sight. 

Continue the tour by enjoying a pleasant stroll along Victory Avenue, the most famous boulevard of Bucharest flanked by imposing architectural gems.

Soon, you‘ll arrive in University Square, whose history is also connected to the anti-communist Revolution. Then, you’ll reach the oldest part of Bucharest, today a hive of bars and restaurants. 

Bucharest’s old town is trendy for its nightlife, but this is also a place where commerce, religion, and finance once led the direction of the city’s development. From here, Bucharest evolved and eventually became Romania’s capital city.  

In the old town, you will see some old but well-preserved inns, the typical merchants’ houses, and the little but so beautiful churches secluded from noisy passers-by looking for fun; Here, the tour guide will explain to you some representative and exciting aspects about the Orthodox churches, their architecture and how important the Orthodox faith is for Romanians.

Before leaving the old town, you’ll see the former Princely Court, the oldest building of Bucharest kept in its original form, and a traditional inn dating back to 1808.

In the last part of the tour, you will notice how the city changes its look from a historical Parisian-like atmosphere to a more gray and simple look. Cross the Dambovita River and step into the so-called New Civic Center, a neighborhood transformed by the communists after the Great Earthquake of 1977. Many historical buildings, worship places, and small houses were demolished to make room for the second-largest building in the world, today’s Palace of the Parliament. It has become one of the city’s landmarks since its construction and is Bucharest's most visited tourist attraction. The creation of this massive building was one of the last dreams of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. So, walk along Union Boulevard and admire the famous fountains, where people watch a synchronized show of “water dance,” music, and lights every weekend during the warm season. At the end of this boulevard, stop in Constitution Square, next to the Palace of the Parliament, where the Bucharest Evening Tour ends.