Bucharest Romania - travel

Bucharest is the largest Romanian city and capital.
The city includes several parks, neoclassical buildings, an Arc de Triomphe on the Kiseleff boulevard, which is longer than Champs-Elysees.
You can visit the Old City Centre, with its charm and partially restored buildings.
The Royal Palace stands next to Revolution Square with majestic architecture.

Romania tourism - World heritage sites

Traveling to Romania gives the opportunity to see where are great heritage sites. You will find medieval churches, fortified living towns, monasteries and traditional masterpieces. UNESCO has included this beautifully preserved treasures in the World Cultural Heritage as a recognition of their value. I will always recommend to see where is each of these treasure and have a direct experience of Romania.

Romania travel - The Painted Monasteries

After identifying where is Romania, let's travel in beautiful places.
In the North-East of Romania there are The Painted Monasteries.
Build during past times, they represent great cultural heritage over history.

This is a visual guide with map and video:

Vizualizare hartă mărită

To Romania - by car

You can get to Romania also by car. Depending from where you come from, there are several border crossing points in Romania.

This is a list of road border crossing points in Romania grouped by country:

Country	Entry point to Romania	Corresponding entry point
Bulgaria	Călărași	Silistra
	Giurgiu	Ruse
	Ostrov	Silistra
	Vama Veche	Durankulak
Moldova	Albița	Leușeni
	Galați	Giurgiulești
	Oancea	Cahul
	Sculeni	Sculeni
	Stânca	Costești
Serbia	Jimbolia	Kikinda Crinja
	Naidăș	Kalugerovo
	Porțile de Fier I	Djerdap I
	Porțile de Fier II	Djerdap II
	Stamora-Moravița	Varsac Vatin
Ucraina	Sighetu Marmatiei	Solotvino
Ungaria	Borș	Ártánd
	Cenad	Kiszombor
	Nădlac	Nagylak
	Petea	Csengersima
	Săcuieni	Letavertes
	Salonta	Méhkerék
	Turnu	Battonya
	Urziceni	Vallaj
	Valea lui Mihai	Nyírábrány
	Vărșand	Gyula

 

After knowing where is Romania, you can choose to travel by plane or by car.
I will come back with a road map for more details.

To Romania - by plane

Now, that we know where is Romania, let's see how to get to Romania.
For this time, travel by plane.

This is a map of airports in Romania:

Airport Romania - Map from The Romanian Airports Association

Most flights are available to Bucharest Airport "Henri Coanda", but others are available also to other Airports.
This is the fastest way to travel to Romania from anywhere around the world.

So, where is Romania?

In Southeastern Europe, where the Danube flows into the Black Sea, outside and within the Carpathian mountains, there you will find Romania.
It shares border with Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova and Hungary.
Let's see:


Romania Map
 

Somebody asked: where is Romania?

Well, as I was traveling outside Romania, we met this group of nice people. So, we get to know each other.
After some time, there was a question that needed an answer: where is Romania?