Attractions in Bucharest

The Palace of the Parliament is the world's heaviest building and second-largest administrative structure after the Pentagon. Built under Ceaușescu between 1984 and 1997, it contains 1,100 rooms spread across 365,000 m².

Massive Romanian Orthodox cathedral under construction since 2010, set to become one of the tallest Orthodox churches in the world..

Romania's premier opera and ballet venue in a Modernist building from 1953..

Walking route linking the Choral Temple, Great Synagogue, and Jewish Quarter remnants..

The Romanian Athenaeum is Bucharest's most beautiful building, a neoclassical concert hall (1888) with a distinctive domed silhouette. Home to the George Enescu Philharmonic, its acoustics and frescoed interior are outstanding.

Bucharest's triumphal arch modelled on the Parisian original, built in 1936 to commemorate WWI..

Stavropoleos Monastery is a tiny 18th-century Orthodox church in the Old Town, its ornate Brâncovenesc-style facade a jewel of carved stone and painted arches amid the surrounding nightlife bars.

Revolution Square (Piața Revoluției) is where the 1989 Romanian Revolution reached its climax. The former Communist Party headquarters, the Athenaeum, the National Art Museum, and a memorial to the revolution's victims share this loaded urban space.

Ruins of the 15th-century princely court of Vlad the Impaler in the heart of Bucharest's Old Town..

Ornate 1900 banking palace with a glass dome, one of Bucharest's finest Beaux-Arts facades..

17th-century Brâncovenesc-style lakeside palace 15 km northwest of Bucharest..

Seat of the Romanian Orthodox patriarch, a 17th-century church on a hill overlooking the Dâmbovița River..

Tree-lined boulevard modelled on the Champs-Élysées, connecting Victory Square to the Triumphal Arch..