Unique SHAWARMA Technique!! Bucharest Street Food + Market Tour in Romania!!
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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - Bucharest is the largest city in Romania, a vibrant capital, full of old and new, and an abundance of markets, and everything from street food to high end restaurants. In this ultimate Romanian food tour of Bucharest, we ate a variety of amazing food, and I’m going to share it all with you in this video! #Romania #RomanianFood #Bucharest
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Obor Market - To start off this day of eating, we headed to the biggest fruit and vegetable market in Bucharest, Obor Market. After walking around the amazing fruit selection, and vegetables, we had a quick cup of freshly squeezed grape juice.
Terasa Obor Mici - Located at the market is one of the best Romanians street food stalls in the city, Terasa Obor Mici. There’s nothing like a few mici in the morning with some beer. The owner here is also incredibly friendly, and they serve probably the best mici in Romania.
Argentine Steak & Sushi - Next up on this food tour of Bucharest, we had a lunch cooked by Chef Catalin Petrescu ( who uses Romanian ingredients to make Japanese food - and it’s amazing food. Cristian also supplies microgreens for this restaurant ( It was an outstanding meal.
Parliament of Romania - The most important and iconic landmark in Bucharest is the Parliament of Romania, the second largest administrative building in the world. We took a quick tour of some of the most decorated and beautiful rooms.
Origo Coffee Shop If you love good coffee, when you’re in Bucharest, Romania, this is the place to go.
Dristor Kebap - This chain of Romanian style shawarma is a must try when you’re in Bucharest. I loved the unique selection of vegetables, and especially the stir mix of all the ingredients, which I haven’t seen in other countries.
Caru' cu bere - Finally, to complete this incredible day of Romanian food in Bucharest, we went to Caru' cu bere, a historical Romanian restaurant, full of cultures, and meaty Romanian food. Every night is a party at Caru' cu bere!
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Best Hotels in Bucharest - Top 5 Hotels in Bucharest, Romania.
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Romania: Ceausescu's glamorous residence opens to public in Bucharest
The private residence of Romania's deceased former leader Nicolae Ceausescu located in Bucharest’s Primaverii neighbourhood was opened up to the public for the first time on Saturday.
Visitors will now be able to take in Ceausescu’s opulent 80-room residence, including its peacock-filled gardens, the renowned art work that hangs in its corridors, as well as diamond-studded mirrors and gold-plated ceilings.
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Villa for rent in Pipera 483 sqm, Bucharest, Romania (terrace, 5)
Villa for rent in Pipera 483 sqm (300 sqm + 183 sqm terraces and balconies) with more than 1000 sqm garden around the house, located on the shore of the Pipera Lake in the north of Bucharest.
Villa has a large living room (90 sqm) in 2 volumes, 3 bedrooms, office, kitchen with modern cabinets, dressing, a very large open terrace at the second floor (165 sqm),
boiler equipment room, laundry and dryer, cellar, disco lighting and professional audio and DJ desk, sauna, fitness room, 5 bathrooms, pantry.
All bathrooms have jacuzzi tub or shower with hydro massage.
House has modern furniture and decorations, parquet or granite floors.
Villa has an intelligent home system (audio, video, lighting), cable and wireless internet, central heating and hot water with gas (Buderus), underfloor heating and additional radiators in bathrooms, two additional solar panels for hot water and heating, additional electric convectors, air conditioning chiller system with fan convectors and underfloor heating, audio system in rooms, in 4 bathrooms and outdoor, decorative programmable color lighting, security system with various detectors (movement, gas, smoke).
Utilities -- self water supply (two wells at 70m depth), sewage - city pipeline, electricity, gas, garbage collection (all city services)
Facilities - 10m length pool with jacuzzi, electric lighting for patios and terraces
and main gateway operated by remote control
Other features -- electric generator, 2 water softener stations (house and pool), house UV water sterilizer system.
Security - human guard (cabin and monitor surveillance cameras), telephone warning system to security firms (monitoring), lightning rod.
6000 EUR / month, +40 720 637 308, terenul@gmail.com
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World's 2nd Largest Building, Ceausescu's Romanian Palace of Parliament
Built in the 80's by the dictator and mentally disturbed Nicolae Ceausescu, located in Bucharest, Romania, the Palace has 1000 rooms and is a testament to ugly excessive architecture. Now available to tour, this is one tour to take to experience how 100,000 people built an edifice to glorify 1 person and the Communist party. So come and enjoy the tour of a building that is hardly used anymore but gives a sense to the silly grandeur and symbol of crazy government intentions gone wrong.
Cozy Apartment in Bucharest Optimizes Space and Light | Bucharest, Romania | HD
Located in a newly built residential complex in Bucharest, Romania, this 538 square-foot home, named Apartment No. 3, optimizes space and light. Bogdan Ciocodeică & Diana Roşu teamed up to design a cozy apartment that offers both aesthetic harmony and functionality.
“Like with any other project, we tried to envision the owners’ daily paths, from the moment they step inside the apartment, until they go to bed at night,” the architects said. “We tried to make the space as comfortable as possible, to create a positive state of mind and that homey feeling everyone longs for.”
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Ceausescu Mansion in Bucharest, Romania
Ceausescu Mansion in Bucharest, Romania
There’s no better place to visit in Romania than Ceausescu Mansion to understand the double standards of the communist regime or the absurd cult of personality of one of its most ruthless dictators.
Opened in 2016 for visitors, Ceausescu Mansion was back in the dark and freezing communist days one of the best-kept secrets of the regime. Only the closest members of the family and the highest rank party members had access to Ceausescu’s residence. Why all the secrecy you wonder if he was ‘the first son of the nation’ who was guiding Romania to the ‘Golden Age’?
From shoemaker apprentice to communist dictator
To make the best out of your visit, you should know a few things about Nicolae Ceausescu before. Born in 1918, in a poor family of peasants, young Ceausescu aspired to be a shoemaker and didn’t complete more than his primary education studies. That didn’t prove to be a big problem for his future career as most communist party members had a complete lack of academic education.
He never got to practice his shoemaking skills as very soon after he moved to Bucharest, he became a communist activist. The Romanian Communist Party was already illegal, since 1924, by the time Ceausescu joined its very heterogeneous lines. He was imprisoned a few times, but not for such a long time as other preeminent members of the party, and many legends exist regarding his time in prison, from who his cellmates were to his love life.
Later in life, he made up for his scarce illegality activity through falsification, a preferred practice of the party. He even falsified photos to make sure he had proof of his revolutionary past that became a national celebration during his cult of personality days.
After 1948, Ceausescu meticulously created a network of supporting members at local and central level. In 1965, he was the unlikely successor of dying Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej – the first communist dictator –, but he was clever enough to surprise everyone when he won the nomination.
For over three decades, he was in complete control of all the decisions made in communist Romania. Posing as a rebel of the communist world to get funding and attention from the US, Ceausescu had life and death power in Romania and no moral or fear of God stopped him from using it.
He invented the President function for himself and awarded his ignorant, evil and revengeful wife, Elena, with the third position in the state, although she was de facto the second most powerful person of Romania and the most detested one. Even the party members hated and despised her. So bad that leaving her in charge in the days of the 1989 Revolution led to their betrayal by the army and the party.
While posing in humble and down to earth people, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu lived in ostentatious contrast to the values they were preaching and the lack of space and basic resources the Romanian people were enduring. Their top-secret residence was off the radar and off limits because the communist ideology of equality came with a stunning indoor swimming pool, a spa, thousands of dresses, a cinema room and much more. Some were more equals than others in communist Romania.
Visiting the home of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu
The home of the dictatorial couple from 1965 until their execution in December 1989, Ceausescu Mansion was, in fact, built for the first communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, who didn’t get to use it during his life.
Located on one of the most expensive streets in Bucharest, Primaverii, in a neighborhood where only the most trusted party member had their residences, the mansion also known as Primaverii Palace hides more history than we can possibly imagine.
The original construction was enlarged for the Ceausescu family and decorated with luxurious furniture, original Iranian carpets and many paintings of important Romanian artists like Dumitru Ghiata, Octav Bancila, Camil Ressu, hand-made tapestries that decorate entire walls and expensive porcelain vases. The most impressive space, the swimming pool hall, is an enormous mosaic puzzle created in two years by artists Olga Porumbaru and Florin Parvulescu.
The guided tour of the house will take you seeing the home office of Nicolae Ceausescu, his three children’s apartments, the apartment he shared with his wife and also their famous golden bathroom. The cinema room with original Phillips technology, the dining space, the cellar, the winter garden with tropical plants, an impressive wardrobe, a spa area, a day apartment for Elena Ceausescu and the incredible swimming pool complete the tour. The bunker and the portraits’ gallery are included in the private tour visits.
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Bucharest: 2nd Largest Building in the World - Michael Palin's New Europe - BBC
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After the Pentagon, the Romanian parliament building is the second largest building in the world. In this clip from the BBC travel documentary, Michael Palin visits the Bucharest building with an astonishing 1,000 rooms.
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Bucharest, Romania: Winds of Change
More info about travel to Romania: Nicolae Ceaușescu took power in Romania in 1965, and through his 24-year dictatorship his ego ballooned. The culmination of his master plan was an immense palace with more than a thousand rooms, now the Palace of the Parliament. In late 1989, with winds of change sweeping the Eastern Bloc, armed revolution spread across Romania.
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Inside the Palace of Parliament | Bucharest - Μέσα στο Παλάτι του Λαού | Βουκουρέστι
We visited the palace of parliament in bucharest, Romania in the spring of 2018. With the help of a guide we walked by the different lavish rooms and learned about the building's history.
Την άνοιξη του 2018 επισκεφτήκαμε το Παλάτι του Λαού στο Βουκουρέστι της Ρουμανίας. Με την βοήθεια ενός ξεναγού είδαμε όλη την χλιδή που περιέχει το κτήριο και μάθαμε την ιστορία της κατασκευής του.
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VILA FOR SALE OR RENT IN MOGOSOAIA-BUCHAREST-ROMANIA
Details about the property:
The property is on a 3000sqm(30000sqf) lot, on the skirts of the forest, 120m from the Bucuresti-Targoviste road. The access to the house is road with asphalt-7m wide. The land is surrounded by a concrete fence , 2.4m high ,covered with ceramic shingles and flat stones.
The gate has a video-camera and intercom and is operated by remote control.
Advantages:
• Mogosoaia is situated in the NV of Bucharest, 10km-6 miles from Piata Victoriei. The access to Mogosoaia is through Calea Grivitei- Bucurestii Noi, through the new road that links DN1 with Bucurestii Noi ( sos. Straulesti which starts near Antena1) , through DN1 –Otopeni or through Chitila
• In Mogosoaia is the palace with the same name, historic and architectural monument situated on the shore of the lake .In Mogosoaia the are also 3 forests.
• There are many local facilities : private kindergarten ,small deli shops ,pharmacy ,2 gas-stations ,motel
• Security companies that along with the local police ( one of the best equipped in the country) make Mogosoaia a safe place to live in
• Hypermarket ( Penny) is in Buftea – 3 km, Carrefour, Selgros, Metro,Ikea and a fancy Mall in Banesasa , only 4 km. on he new road Straulesti
• Restaurants in Mogosoaia and Buftea
• During the night the area is very well lighted by the public system
• Parking is easy : the front yard accommodates 8-10 big cars or 14 small .Is also available a parking on the other side of the road
• The yard is large enough to organize private parties with 200 people
• The house was never lived in ,except the last floor
Suitable for:
• Embassies , ONG or other agencies, private residence for ambassadors or chiefs of mission
• Headquarters for companies including banks
• Mini-hotel, guest house for companies,Health clinic’s etc.
The house: is 254.46sm on the ground , 1000 sm build surface , 800sm livable space
- is built of reinforced concrete and efficient bricks over 90.000, with walls of 45cm thickness, with outside stucco and stone around the base.
- the windows are PVC , insulated
- has a 100sqm stone terrace
- shingle roof
The house has -: basement, ground floor , first floor and second floor .The second floor is organized as a separate apartment , including heating.
- 4 storage rooms in attic
- under the terrace there is another storage room ( for garden utensils)
- food elevator from basement to the attic ( no mechanism)
- the floors , ceilings and outside walls are isolated with Styrofoam and mineral wool
- ceilings are with sheet rock
- american doors
- copper lighting of 2.5mm and bipolar fuses
- PVC plumbing
- heating with pexal , each radiator has it’s own circuit with no joint connection
- radiators with thermostats
- lightning rod
- grounded plugs
- 110V circuits with american plugs throughout the house
- 5KV transformer
- ceramic tiles imported from Italy and Spain
The garden( 2750sm) has different areas:
- parking, in front of the house, paved with concrete bricks, which can accommodate 10-14 cars,
- formal area with decorative trees ,bushes, pine trees ,80 rosebushes and lawn
- decorative pond , surrounded by rocks , with water fountain, mini-waterfall and an wooden bridge
- 2 gazebos
- built-in BBQ with refrigerator underneath
- 2partially covered dog paddocks
- orchard with fruit bearing trees
- vegetable garden
- vines ,strawberry ,raspberry gooseberry ,black & red currant ,little scarlet
- playground with a wooden house ,slide and sand box
- near the terrace is an area for possible pool with water and electricity already existing
- alleys in cobbled stone
- 9 garden lamps, one with photocell . The property is very well lighted by the excellent public lights which covers most of the garden
- separate room for the gardener(guard) , heated by terracotta wood stove
- direct access in the forest
The house has all the facilities ( gas, sewer-drain ,water , telephone ,cable TV, fiber –optic internet).The gas and electrical meters can be read from outside the gate without getting inside the property.
Visiting the Dracula Castle in Transylvania, Romania
A tour of Bran Castle in Transylvania, Romania, associated with the story about Count Dracula.
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Visiting the Dracula Castle in Transylvania, Romania
Zlatari Church (Biserica Zlatari) Bucharest, Romania Outside and Inside
Zlatari Church seen from outside and inside. Zlatari Church is one of the oldest monuments in the historical centre of Bucharest. It was mentioned with the name in two documents in 1667 and 1679. Zlatari is a Romanian plural word with south-Slavic origin (zlatar) meaning goldsmith. Therefore the church took its name from the group of zlatari (goldsmiths) who were living in the neighborhood.
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Bucharest: 2nd Largest Building in the World - Michael Palin's New Europe - BBC
After the Pentagon, the Romanian parliament building is the second largest building in the world. Michael Palin visits the Bucharest building with 1,000 rooms in his BBC travel documentary Palin's New Europe. Watch more high quality videos on the Explore YouTube channel from BBC Worldwide here:
Walk through Bucharest, Romania 4K
Bucharest is the capital and industrial, cultural and commercial center of Romania. Bucharest bears the epithet Little Paris. According to the latest census, about 2M people live in it.
Some of Bucharest's main attractions:
-Victoria Palace building of the Government of Romania. It is located in the large Victoria Square. It was built just before 1944. It was damaged in World War II. After reconstruction, it was opened in 1952.
-Old Town, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Bucharest. It dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. It was the center of the shop, the workshops and the intersection of roads. It is now a pedestrian zone with many cafes, restaurants and shops.
-Stavropoleos church built in 1724 at the request of the Greek monk. The Orthodox Church was built of stone and wood in a combination of Romanian and Byzantine elements.
-The Triumphal Arch, was built to honor all those who fought in the First World War. It was first built of wood in 1922 and reconstructed in granite in 1936.
-King Michael I Park. One of the largest parks in Bucharest. The park's earlier name was Herastrau Park. The park covers an area of 198 ha, of which the lake occupies 74 ha. The park was opened in 1936.
-King Carol I of Romania was the ruler of the United Principals from 1866 to 1881 and the first king of Romania from 1881 to 1914. The Revolution Square was named in 1989 when major civil demonstrations were organized against the reign of dictator Nikolae Ceausescu.
-Romanian Athenaeum, Concert Hall. Opened in 1888, it is the main concert hall and home to the George Enescu Philharmonic.
-Cismigiu park. It is located in the center of Bucharest, one of the most important parks and covers an area of 16 ha.
-Parliament House. The second largest building in the world, behind the American Pentagon. Parliament area is 340000 m2. It is the most expensive building in the world by value. It has 1100 rooms.
Bukurešt je glavni grad i industrijsku, kulturni i trgovinski centar Rumunije. Bukurešt nosi epitet Mali Pariz. Po zadnjem popisu stanovništva u njemu živi oko 2M ljudi.
Neke od glavnih atrakcija Bukurešta:
-Victoria Palace zgrada Vlade Rumunije. Smeštena je na velikom Victoria trgu. Sagrađena je nešto pre 1944. Oštećena je u II svetskom ratu. Posle rekonstrukcije, otvorena je 1952.
-Stari grad, jedan od najstarijih četvrt u Bukureštu. Datira iz vremena 15. i 16. veka. Bio je centar trgovine, radionica i raskrsnica puteva. Sada je pešačka zona sa mnoštvo kafića, restorana i prodavnica.
-Stavropoleos crkva sagrađena 1724. po želji Grčkog monaha. Pravoslavna crkva sagrađena je od kamena i drveta u kombinaciji Rumunskog i Vizantijskog elementa.
-Triumfalna kapija, sagrađena je u čast svima onima koji su se borili u Prvom Svetskom Ratu. Izgrađena je prvo od drveta 1922. godine, a 1936. rekonsturisana u granitu.
-Kralj Michael I park. Jedan među najvećim parkovima u Bukureštu. Raniji naziv parka je bio Herastrau park. Park zauzima površinu od 198 ha, od toga jezero zauzima 74 ha. Park je otvoren 1936.
-Кralj Karol I bio је vladar Ујеdinjenih Kneževina оd 1866. dо 1881. I prvi kralj Rumunije оd 1881. dо 1914. godine. Trg Revolucije dobija naziv 1989. godine kada su organizovane velike građanske demonstracije protiv vladavine diktatora Nikolae Čaušesku.
-Rumunski Аtеneum, koncertna dvorana. Otvorena je 1888 godine, glavna je koncertna dvorana i dom filharmonije George Еnescu.
-Cismigiu park. Nalazi se u centru Bukurešta, jedan od najvažnijih parkova, prostire se na površini od 16 ha.
-Palata parlamenta. Druga po veličini građevina na svetu, iza Američkog pentagona. Površina parlamenta je 340000 m2. Po vrednosti je najskuplja građevina na svetu. U njoj se nalazi 1100 prostorija.
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Tour of Ceauşescu's Palace in Bucharest, Romania
You have to see it to believe it. A guided tour of Ceauşescu's Palace (officially Palace of the Parliament, in Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului, formerly Casa Poporului), the world's largest civillian administrative building. It is the heaviest building on earth and one of the few that can still be identified from space. The as yet uncompleted Palace measures 270 m by 245 m, with a height of 86 m, and goes 92 m deep below the ground. It has 1,100 rooms and currently houses the Romanian parliament which, however, takes up only a fraction of the available space. The volume of the building was planned the be 2% greater than the Cheops pyramid in Egypt and is second only to the Pentagon in the United States.
The building is constructed entirely of materials from Romania. It is estimated to contain one million cubic meters of marble and 3,500 tonnes of crystal. 480 chandeliers as well as 1,409 ceiling lights and mirrors were manufactured. 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze for monumental doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals were used. It contains 900,000 m³ of wood for parquet and wainscotting, including walnut, oak, sweet cherry, elm, sycamore and maple as well as 200,000 m² of woolen carpets of various dimensions, with machines having had to be moved inside the building to weave some of the larger carpets. Hundreds of architects, under the leadership of Anca Petrescu, were involved in the project of building the Palace, which began in 1983. Its total costs were estimated to have been 3 billion euros at 2006 value.
Many ordinary Romanians paid a very high price for the palace's construction. It required much of Bucharest's historic district to be demolished, including 19 Orthodox churches, six synagogues and three Protestant churches. Eight churches were relocated, and 30,000 people lost their dwellings.
HILTON HOTEL in BUCHAREST OTOPENI AIRPORT
Abonează-te: There's only one hotel inside the Bucharest Otopeni Henri Coandă Airport and that's the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel.
The 4-star hotel is close to Departures Terminal, has 218 rooms, 5 conference rooms of various sizes, a fitness centre, all-day restaurant, DIY laundry or full-service, underground parking.
Made the captions in English so the clip is useful to everyone looking for accomodation in the airport.
National Theatre BUCHAREST - ROMANIA (HD1080p)
*** The NATIONAL THEATRE BUCHAREST (Romanian: Teatrul Na?ional Ion Luca Caragiale Bucure?ti) is one of the national theatres of ROMANIA, located in the capital city of BUCHAREST. ***
Luxury Penthouse Bucharest - 2018 | Sky-Line Properties
Luxury Penthouse Bucharest - 2018
Property for Rent - One Herastrau Park
Triplex - 11th, 12th and 13th floor
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One Herastrau Park is a real estate landmark developed by One United Properties, a high-end, design residence with 2 towers of 52m each, with amazing views of Herastrau Park, Floreasca Lake and the whole city of Bucharest.
Bucharest In Your Pocket - Parlament Palace Tour
Join the official tour of Romania's most famous building, Palatul Parlamentului (Parliament Palace) with tour guide Raluca Mitu.
Palatul Parlamentului (known universally as Casa Poporului, House of the People) was built during the darkest days of the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime. Standing 84m above ground level on 12 floors, the building has long been shrouded in mystery, rumour and hyperbole. Originally designed to house almost all the organs of the communist state, it today plays host to the Romanian parliament and a modern, well equipped conference centre, as well as Romanias Museum of Contemporary Art. Much of the building, however, remains unused.
The public tour of the building is thoroughly recommended (it is the only way to see the building, in fact) though the commentary consists of little more than a bored guide reeling off endless superlative statistics. Youll see plenty of grand staircases, marble-plated halls and conference rooms, while - depending on the mood of the guide - you may also have the chance to go on to the balcony, which offers the defining view of central Bucharest.
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