Map guide Easy
Preview — City Centre Map
Three central stops from the full map, unabridged. The city pass opens the other twenty.
See the tourFree
Romania
Bucharest
Belle Époque boulevards, communist-era megastructures and a medieval core that survived both. Bucharest rewards walking — and knowing where to look.
Tours in Bucharest
Buy the map guide, a treasure hunt, or both. Each is a single payment. The free samples open with no payment and no account — start there if you would rather read us before you pay.
Map guides
Map guide Easy
Bucharest Essentials
The 23 places in Bucharest worth your time, on one map.
See the tour€9.90
Treasure hunts
Treasure hunt Easy
Preview — Mini Treasure Hunt
The first two riddles of the Old Town hunt, scored for real. The full loop has seven.
See the tourFree
Treasure hunt Moderate
Old Town Treasure Hunt
Seven riddles, seven free landmarks, about two hours on foot.
See the tour€6.90
Treasure hunt Easy
Old Town Flavours
Five riddles between the Old Town's oldest tables, with a monastery courtyard to catch your breath in. About 90 minutes on foot.
See the tour€6.90
Treasure hunt Easy
Marks of the City
Five riddles across the squares and monuments of central Bucharest.
See the tourWon, not sold
Treasure hunt Moderate
Behind the Facades
Four riddles that send you inside Bucharest's greatest collections.
See the tourWon, not sold
What the Bucharest guide covers
- Written in
- English, Romanian and French
- Narrated in
- English
- Free to enter
- 15 of 23 stops
- What is on the map
- landmarks, parks & gardens, food & drink, museums, churches & monasteries and thermal baths & spas
The map
- Landmarks
- Parks & gardens
- Food & drink
- Museums
- Churches & monasteries
- Thermal baths & spas
Every stop on the Bucharest map
23 places, each with its own page giving the address, the opening hours and what a ticket gets you. Free to read even if you never buy anything.
- Arch of TriumphFree
Granite arch marking the end of the First World War.
- CEC PalaceFree
A glass-domed French Beaux-Arts palace built for a savings bank.
- Carol ParkFree
Terraced park with an eternal flame and the city's best skyline view.
- Caru' cu BereFree
Bucharest's most ornate beer hall, pouring since 1879.
- Cișmigiu GardensFree
The city's oldest public park, laid out in 1847 around a spring.
- Cotroceni PalaceTicketed
A royal palace over a 17th-century monastery — now the president's seat.
- Cărturești CaruselFree
A white six-level bookshop inside a restored bank of 1904.
- Dimitrie Gusti National Village MuseumTicketed
Three hundred real peasant houses, moved here from across Romania.
- Grigore Antipa Natural History MuseumTicketed
A 1908 natural history museum that reinvented itself as a modern one.
- Kilometre ZeroFree
The stone disc from which every distance in Romania is measured.
- King Michael I Park (Herăstrău)Free
187 hectares around a lake, with boat trips and a Japanese garden.
- Kretzulescu ChurchFree
A 1722 Brâncovenesc church in bare brick, on Revolution Square.
- Macca–Villacrosse PassageFree
A fork-shaped arcade under amber glass, built in 1891.
- Manuc's InnFree
Bucharest's oldest inn building still in use, wrapped around a wooden courtyard.
- National Museum of Art of RomaniaTicketed
The former Royal Palace, now home to Romania's national collection.
- National Museum of Romanian HistoryTicketed
The old Postal Palace — home to Romania's gold treasure and a cast of Trajan's Column.
- Palace of the ParliamentTicketed
The heaviest building on earth, and the largest civilian administrative building.
- Revolution SquareFree
Where Ceaușescu's last speech was cut short on 21 December 1989.
- Romanian AthenaeumTicketed
The domed 1888 concert hall funded by public subscription.
- Stavropoleos MonasteryFree
A jewel-box Brâncovenesc church wedged between Old Town bars.
- The Old Princely Court (Curtea Veche)Free
The ruined palace where Bucharest is first named in writing, in 1459.
- Therme BucureștiTicketed
A vast thermal wellness centre under glass, some 20 km north of the centre.
- University SquareFree
The city's civic heart, and "kilometre zero of democracy" since 1990.
Questions about Bucharest
- How much does the Bucharest guide cost?
- The Bucharest city pass is €9.90 and lasts a year. Each treasure hunt is bought separately at €6.90 and lasts 180 days. There is no subscription and nothing renews.
- Do I need to book a time or meet a guide?
- No. Nobody is meeting you, and nothing starts at a fixed time. You buy it, it opens on your phone, and you walk it whenever you happen to be in Bucharest: before breakfast, after dinner, or spread over three separate days.
- What is the difference between the map guide and a treasure hunt?
- The map guide shows you every stop from the start and tells you about each one as you arrive. It is a guidebook you walk. A treasure hunt hides the stops behind riddles: you are told what to look for, not where it is, and each find is checked before the next riddle appears.
- Is admission to the museums and monuments included?
- No. What you buy is the guide, not the tickets. The pages tell you what each place charges and where booking ahead is the difference between walking in and going home. The treasure hunts are a separate case: they are built entirely around places that cost nothing to reach.
- What language is the Bucharest guide in?
- Bucharest is written in English, Romanian and French. Every stop, every tip and every riddle is translated in full, not machine-translated from English. The narration is recorded in English.
- What is actually on the Bucharest map?
- 23 places: landmarks, parks & gardens, food & drink, museums, churches & monasteries and thermal baths & spas. Each has its own page on this site with the address, the opening hours and what a ticket gets you, and the guide adds the story behind it and the tip only somebody who has stood there would write down.