Bucovina & Transylvania Tour – 3 days

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Day 1: Bucharest – Bacau – Roman – Bucovina
1 stop
1
In the morning, you will leave behind Wallachia and head to Bucovina known for its painted monasteries, but also for the traditional houses adorned with beautiful floral and geometrical motifs, for its traditions kept over the centuries and for its hospitable people. Dinner and accommodation in Bucovina.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Day 3: Piatra Neamt – Lacu Rosu – Brasov – Bran – Bucharest
3 stops
2
Moldovita Monastery
Moldovita Monastery built-in 1532, initially built as a monastery for monks and changed after as a convent for nuns.
45 minutes • Admission ticket not included
3
Sucevita Monastery
Sucevita which is the largest of all, looking more like a mighty fortress than a monastery. The monastic place, as the last one to be painted on the exterior walls, boasts the best-preserved frescoes of Bucovina.
45 minutes • Admission ticket not included
4
Manastirea Voronet
In the end, you will visit the most famous painted monastery of all, Voronet Convent also known as “The Sixtine Chapel of the Orient”. Erected in 1488, Voronet Monastery represented one of the first Moldavian creative elements showing a distinctive style. The church is a combination of Byzantine, Gothic and local elements. The exterior painting on the western wall depicts, on five registers, the Doomsday scene, unique in the whole world. The Voronet Monastery entered the universal cultural heritage also for having in the composition of the paintings the inimitable “Voronet blue”.
45 minutes • Admission ticket not included
Day 3
Day 3: Piatra Neamt – Lacu Rosu – Brasov – Bran – Bucharest
2 stops
5
Brasov
Today you will enter the legendary land of Transylvania after crossing the Carpathian Mountains. You will stop in Brasov considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in Romania. Here, you will have lunch in a typical restaurant and enjoy a lovely walk on the narrow and cobblestone streets of the old city center. You will see The Council Square, The Council Tower, The famous Black Church (the largest Gothic construction in the Eastern part of Europe).
1 hour • Admission ticket free
6
Bran Castle (Dracula's Castle)
Bran Castle, which became so famous thanks to the legend of Dracula. Here you will find out how this legend was born and why Transylvania is until nowadays related to it.
1 hour • Admission ticket not included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• A minimum of 2 people is required for this trip to run.

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