A tour designed to reveal to the hasty traveller some of the unique beauties behind the walls, the truth behind the myths and a few exciting landscapes which usually remain unseen while we drive too fast through life.
Details:
Meeting point: Piata Sfatului Sq. (Info center) - 8 AM
Duration : 8 AM - 6 PM
Route:
Brasov – Rasnov: visit the Fortress built in stone and brick around the year 1215 by the Teutonic Knights) - Bran (visit the Castle built by the Knights of the Teutonic Order between 1211 - 1225) - Lunch - Sinaia (visit the Peles Castle a Neo-Renaissance castle placed in an idyllic setting in the
Carpathian Mountains, on a medieval route linking Transylvania and Wallachia, built between 1873 and 1883) - Brasov
Rates:
For 2-4 participants: 77 euro/person
For 5 persons: 55 euro/person
For 6-8 persons: 49 euro/person
The rates include:
- transportation: 8+1 minibus with air conditioning system
- English / French / German speaking tour guide
- lunch
Not included: entrance fees to museums
Highlights:
Dracula’s Castle in Bran is the place where Dracula was imprisoned before he was taken to Budapest. Bran Castle is home to a rich collection of Romanian and foreign furniture and art items from the XIVth-XIXth centuries. It sits up atop a 200 ft. tall rock, overlooking the picturesque village of Bran. On the grounds bellow there is an open-air ethnographic museum of old village buildings with exhibits of furniture, household objects and costumes.
Peles Castle in Sinaia is a masterpiece of German New-Renaissance architecture, commissioned by King carol I in 1873 and completed in 1883. Its 160 rooms are adorned with the finest examples of European art, Murano crystal chandeliers, German stained-glass windows, walls covered with Cordoba leather, Meissen and Sevres porcelains, ebony and ivory sculptures.
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