What to see in Sibiu Sibiu was European Capital of Culture in 2007. Its historic centre is on Romania’s UNESCO Tentative List, while the listed World Heritage sites in the area are Sighișoara and the Saxon fortified church villages such as Biertan. The sights below are grouped by area, with entry costs where they are known. Upper Town squares Piața Mare is the main square, free and open all hours. The Christmas Market takes it over from 13 November 2026 to 3 January 2027.

Romantic evenings in Sibiu Sibiu is easy to turn into a romantic weekend because everything sits close together. A good day here has a slow afternoon, a climb at sunset, dinner in an old cellar and a late walk through quiet squares. This page puts those pieces in order. Late afternoon: the cathedral tower Go up the tower of the Evangelical Cathedral on Piața Huet, about 73 m high, an hour or so before sunset.

Using Sibiu as a base for several days Sibiu does not stretch into a week of its own. Two days cover the squares, the main museums and the open-air museum. After that, the sensible move is a loop through Saxon Transylvania by car, returning to Sibiu or ending in Brașov. The notes below are short on purpose, because the choice is mostly about how much you want to drive. Two days in town Day one.

Tickets and guided visits for Sibiu attractions Most Sibiu attractions sell tickets at the door, and the museums price each building separately. Use this page to work out what a visit costs and which days to avoid. Prices are the 2026 tariffs published by the museums, in RON, listed as adult, pensioner and student. Brukenthal branches at a glance Branch Adult Pensioner Student Brukenthal Palace 50 25 12.50 Casa Altemberger (History) 36 18 9 Natural History 20 10 5 Pharmacy History 16 8 4 Contemporary Art 15 7.

What to do in Sibiu, season by season Sibiu has two sides. From November to April the plan is indoor museums, concerts, the Christmas Market and skiing at Păltiniș. From May to September you can add lake days, open-air heritage and long evenings on the squares. Here is how the main options line up. All year ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization. It spreads through the Dumbrava forest about 4 km from the centre and shows relocated rural buildings from across Romania.

Bucharest Activities Priced in Lei, Day by Day Land at Henri Coandă with about 6 lei in your pocket and you can be at Gara de Nord within 25 minutes. The CFR airport train is timetabled rather than round-the-clock, so check infofer.ro for the next departure. Express Bus 100 runs all night, every 15 minutes by day and every 30 at night, from the Departures stop. The Bucharest metro does not reach the airport, and the M6 line is still under construction.

Bucharest Attraction Tours: A Booking Guide Three of the capital’s best-known tours will refuse you at the door if you turn up unprepared. One needs a phone call, one needs a booking or an online ticket, and one needs the right paper in your hand. The rest are walk-up. Here is how each works, with prices in lei (RON). The phone-only one: Palace of the Parliament The Palace of the Parliament on Strada Izvor accepts visitors on guided tours only.

Bucharest Day Trips: Peleș, Brașov and Bran Two castles, one old town and a calendar that does not forgive Mondays. That is the day-trip menu north of the capital. All three sit in the Carpathian foothills, well over an hour from Gara de Nord, and each rewards a different kind of traveller. The trains are the easy part. Opening days and ticket rules are where trips go wrong. Peleș Castle: for interiors The royal summer residence at Sinaia, built between 1873 and 1914 for King Carol I, has about 160 decorated rooms, an armoury and a Florentine hall in marble.

Bucharest for Couples: A Two-Night Plan Two nights is the right length for Bucharest as a couple. The first evening sets the mood with music, and the second slows down with dinner. A day in between buys you either a spa or a train ride to the mountains. Prices are in lei (RON), at roughly 5.3 to the euro. Night one: the Athenaeum Start with a concert. The Romanian Athenaeum is a domed hall of 1888, 41 metres high, with a 75-metre fresco of Romanian history running around the walls.

Bucharest Multi-Day Trips: Carpathians or Delta Romania’s capital makes a good base for a longer loop, but the two classic choices could not be more different. The Carpathian circuit is fast, tidy and run on rails. The Danube Delta is a slow, watery trip that rewards patience and punishes a tight schedule. Pick the first for castles and old towns, the second for birds and quiet. The Carpathian circuit, five days Spend the first two nights in the capital, then two in Brașov.

Bucharest Sightseeing: Free and Low-Cost Sights Most of the best things to look at in Bucharest cost nothing, and the paid ones rarely top 85 lei. The capital’s sights range from a 15th-century prince’s court to the world’s heaviest building, so the budget stretches. Figures here are in lei (RON), at roughly 5.3 to the euro. Free Stavropoleos Church. On Strada Poștei, this 1724 chapel is a small masterpiece of Brâncovenesc style, with floral carving on its porch columns and 18th-century tombstones in the courtyard.

Family Activities in Bucharest by Age and Budget Families sort Bucharest by height and patience, not by neighbourhood. A toddler needs a pushchair path and a playground, a seven-year-old wants slides and skeletons, and a teenager wants something to photograph. The sections below follow that order, with prices in lei (RON) at roughly 5.3 to the euro. Under five Parks and gentle outings suit this age. King Michael I Park, by Lake Herăstrău, has shaded playgrounds, skate areas and an electric ferry across the water.

Walking Tours in Bucharest: Routes, Metro and Tips You can see most of central Bucharest on foot in a day if you let the metro do the long gaps. A single ride is 7 lei and a 24-hour pass is 18 lei, so one pass pays off quickly when you link three short walks. This plan stitches the main ones together in a loop, with pointers on where to rest and what to avoid.

Four days in Romania, priced day by day in RON Four days buys one full day in Bucharest and three days on a genuine Transylvania sampler: Brasov as your base, Bran and Peles castles as a single day trip, and Sighisoara’s walled citadel to close things out. That is a smart-sized bite of Transylvania, not a tour of the region and nowhere close to the whole country. Romania is a big, regionally varied EU member crossed by the Carpathian mountains, and even a full week only properly covers two or three of its regions.

Romania in 5 Days on a Budget (With Daily Costs) Five days buys a proper Transylvania loop, not a rushed taste of the whole country: Bucharest, a Peles Castle stopover, two nights in Brasov for Bran Castle, then Sighisoara’s walled citadel and Sibiu, connected by train and bus instead of a rental car. Romania prices everything in the leu, not the euro, and has been a full Schengen member since January 2025.

Six days in Romania: Transylvania in full, then the Danube Delta Six days buys a full Transylvania loop (Bucharest, Brasov, Bran and Peles castles, Sighisoara and Sibiu) plus one extra region tacked onto the end: a day trip into the Danube Delta, one of Europe’s largest wetlands. That is Transylvania covered properly, plus one further region, not the whole country. Romania is a large, regionally varied EU member split by the Carpathian mountains into at least five or six distinct areas, and even a full week only lets you cover two or three of them well, so treat this plan as a deep dive into two regions rather than a tour of everything.

Romania in 7 Days on a Budget (With Daily Costs) Seven days is enough to do Transylvania properly and still add one more region without rushing it, not attempt the whole country: Bucharest, a Peles Castle stopover, Brasov as your base for Bran, Sighisoara’s walled citadel and Sibiu’s old town, then two more days southeast to the Danube Delta. That is Romania’s week-plus sweet spot, and it still leaves Bukovina’s painted monasteries, Maramures and the Black Sea coast untouched.

A 2-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Two days covers Bucharest’s core without a rental car: the Palace of Parliament and the Old Town on day one, then Revolution Square, the Village Museum and Cismigiu Gardens on day two. This nests into the 3 , 4 and 6-day versions below if you add time. Book these before you go Book the Palace of Parliament tour or call +40 733 558 102 at least 24 hours ahead yourself; there is no walk-up or online ticket.

A 3-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Three days extends the 2-day city plan one stop further: the Palace of Parliament and Old Town on day one, Revolution Square and the Village Museum on day two, then a free Little Paris walk and an optional Therme Bucuresti spa afternoon on day three. It nests into the 4 and 6-day versions below, and compresses to the 2-day plan if you drop day three.

A 4-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Four days adds one museum-and-neighborhood day onto the 3-day plan: the Palace of Parliament and Old Town, Revolution Square and the Village Museum, Little Paris and Therme Bucuresti, then the Crown Jewels and Cotroceni on day four. It nests into the 6-day version below, and compresses to 3 days or 2 days if you have less time. Book these before you go Book the Palace of Parliament tour or call +40 733 558 102 at least 24 hours ahead yourself; there is no walk-up or online ticket.

A 6-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Six days adds a slower neighborhood day and a proper departure day onto the 4-day plan: the Palace of Parliament, Old Town, Revolution Square, the Village Museum, Little Paris, Therme Bucuresti and the Crown Jewels come first, then Primaverii and the Botanical Garden on day five, and a cheap airport run on day six. Compress to the 4-day , 3-day or 2-day versions if you have less time.

Bucharest runs on RON, and it runs cheap Bucharest prices in the Romanian leu (RON), not the euro, even though Romania has been an EU member since 2007 and joined full Schengen, land borders included, on 1 January 2025. Budget roughly 4.55-4.6 RON to the US dollar and 5.2 RON to the euro through 2026, and check the day-of rate since the leu has moved a lot this decade. What that buys is a genuinely cheap capital: a big-ticket museum tour is rarely expensive, a filling restaurant meal lands near 100 RON, and several of the best sights, Revolution Square, Cismigiu Gardens, the whole Old Town, cost nothing.

Bucharest Puts Peles, Bran and Transylvania Within a Cheap Train Ride Bucharest is the arrival and departure city on this trip, not the destination. Land, spend a night or two, then ride the rails north into the Carpathians for Peles Castle at Sinaia, Bran Castle and the Saxon town of Brasov, and, with enough days, the medieval citadel at Sighisoara. Everything here prices out in the Romanian leu (RON), not euros, even though Romania is a full EU and Schengen member; figure roughly 4.

Four days: one night in Bucharest, one in Brasov, castles both middle days Four days is enough for the two castles that matter most, Peles and Bran, plus one overnight in Brasov so neither day feels like a sprint back to the train. This plan skips Sighisoara entirely; it sits too far past Brasov for anything under six days. Want more mountain time, the 6-day plan adds Sighisoara, or the full 7-day version.

Six days: Peles, Bran, and a proper overnight in Sighisoara Six days over the 4-day plan buys you the trip Bran and Brasov alone can’t give: an actual overnight in Sighisoara, a genuine medieval Saxon citadel a further 3.5-4 hours past Brasov, too far for any single-day add-on. Shorter on time, the 4-day version covers just Sinaia and Bran. The full 7-day plan adds a second Brasov stay to break up the return trip.

Seven days: the same castle spine, plus a second Brasov stop to break up the ride home A full week takes the 6-day plan and adds one thing it skips: a second night in Brasov on the way back, so the return from Sighisoara doesn’t turn into one brutal travel day. Shorter trips, the 6-day version does Sighisoara in a single long return, or the 4-day plan skips Sighisoara entirely. Full price detail lives in the Bucharest guide .