Events & Festivals Romania

Craftsmen’s Fair, Bucharest, May - free workshops on traditional woodcarving, glass blowing, egg painting, and more; takes place at one of Europe’s biggest and oldest outdoor museum.
The Old Bucharest Festival, May - steps back into the past with 19th-century costumes, Romantic music concerts and horse-drawn carriage rides through the Old Town.
Maidens’ Fair, Gaina Mountain, Transylvania, July - music, dancing and other traditional festivities.
Sighisoara Medieval Festival, Transylvania, July - concerts, fireworks, chivalry tournaments and archery combine for a three-day medieval extravaganza.
Dracula’s Princely Court, Bucharest - examine the spooky ruins of his princely palace.




Day 1 Bucharest
Arrival transfer.

Day 2 Bucharest - Sibiu - (280km/4h) - Cluj-Napoca (170km /2,30h)
Travel to the southern Transylvanian city of Sibiu. Explore its fascinating and well preserved historic centre. Continue on to Cluj-Napoca.

Day 3 Cluj-Napoca - Maramures (170km/3h)
Continue to Maramures and the village of Surdesti. Visit the towering wooden church and attend Ortodox church service. Enjoy the village and the display of colorful folk costumes and traditions.

Day 4 The Wooden Churches of Maramures
Explore the wooden churches of Maramures in the villages of Barsana, Budesti, Desesti and Poienile Izei. Discover a little more about the local culture by visiting the interior of a traditional house. Enjoy activities like horse-cart driving through the rolling hills, horseback riding without ever crossing a road or a fence.

Day 5 Maramures
Sighetu Marmatiei where to visit the Museum of Arrested Thought and Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance. The next stop is the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta. Enjoy the spectacle of weaving traditional carpets, dyed in vegetal colors. Stop in Vadu Izei, a living museum renowned for its immense, elaborately carved wooden gates.

Day 6 Vaser Valley
Travel to the picturesque Vaser Valley. Unique journey on a narrow gauge railway, one of the most isolated lines in Europe, just 760 mm wide and 40 km long. Adore the picturesque view of the bears and deer drinking from the river.

Day 7 Vadu Izei - Sighisoara 330km/5h - Brasov (120km/1,30h)
Back to Transylvania to find medieval towns, legendary castles, fortified churches. Stop in Sighisoara and continue to Brasov. Explore the old town with its centuries-old buildings.

Day 8 Brasov - Bucharest (160km/2,30h)
Back to Bucharest. Start from the colossal Palace of Parliament, the former home of Romania’s megalomaniac communist leader, Nicolae Ceausescu. Continue to the Revolution Square, where communist Romania came to an end. The Romanian Athenaeum is the next stop.

Day 9 Bucharest
Transfer to the airport.