Bucharest Tuk Tuk city tour

Overview

What you’ll do

You will see the National Theatre and Grand Hotel Continental, the highest hotel in the city.

Foreign leaders such as Charles de Gaulle (1968), Richard Nixon (1969) or Fidel Castro (1972) were invited here. In the post-December period, the palace was a villa of protocol to receive official delegations from the country and abroad. In 2016 the house also called the Spring Palace was transformed into a museum.

In the middle of one of the busiest intersections of the city, stands the Arch de Triumph. The monument reminds passers-by of the Romanian Army’s victory in the First World War and the Great Union of 1918 - one of the most important events in Romania’s history. Built after the French model, the Arch of Triumph in “Little Paris,” as some used to call the Romanian capital city, is the “little brother” of the famous monument of the same name in Paris.

One of the landmarks of Bucharest that best reminds of the communist regime. The building was built between 1952 and 1957 and served as the headquarters of the Communist Party's official publication, Scânteia (The Spark). Following the Romanian Revolution from 1989, the name of the building was replaced with the “House of the Free Press”.

Calea Victoriei is known as an aristocratic street and the most famous street in Bucharest. the oldest artery and the most touristic one. The street is lined with new fashion shops, art boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants, historical buildings.

The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania, and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's most prestigious concert hall, resembling an ancient Greek temple and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu Festival.