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Frequently Asked Questions

• Should Bucharest be on Everybody's list?

  Even given Romania’s less than progressive attitudes to gay rights Bucharest should be on everybody list not only because of its energy and wild nightlife but because of its fascinating mix of communism, old-world elegance and a modern near-total devotion to modernism Bucharest still tantalizes travelers.

• Is Bucharest safe for solo female travellers?

  Don’t take unnecessary risks, would you walk down that dark alley way at home no, so don’t do it when travelling in Bucharest. Like with any town or city there are going to be areas that are not suitable for tourists never mind a solo female.

• Why should you visit Bucharest?

  Many travelers are also confronted by the level of child homelessness and rampant prostitution, but Bucharest is still an intriguing city that begs to be explored.

• What are the best places to visit in Romania?

  Parliament Palace – The famous remnants of Bucharest’s communist past thanks to the folly of Nicolae Ceauşescu. It is still – by far – the largest parliament building in the world with 12 floors and over 31,000 rooms.

• Why should you visit Bucharest?

  Far from the communist utopia first-time visitors conjure upon visiting Bucharest—the 1,100-room Palace of Parliament topping the agenda of iconic sights to tick off—Romania’s capital is everything you didn’t expect.

• What's new in Bucharest in April?

  The big screen is represented courtesy of the April Bucharest International Film Festival (BIFF), which features an impressive roster of both new domestic and foreign (mainly European) movies, with screenings at Cinema Studio on B-dul Magheru and Elvira Popescu inside the French Institute.

• What are the best museums in Bucharest?

  North from Piaţa Victoriei, along the broad sweep of Şoseaua Kiseleff, lie Bucharest’s two best museums – the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, with its marvellous exhibits on peasant life and superbly reconstructed buildings, and the Village Museum, an assemblage of vernacular buildings garnered from Romania’s multifarious regions.

• Where to go in Romania for Gypsy music?

  Some 40km southwest of Bucharest is the small village of CLEJANI, renowned throughout the region as a centre for Gypsy music, spawning members of the world-famous bands Taraf de Haidouks and Mahala Rai Banda, as well as a number of other wonderfully talented musicians.