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Snow was falling in Transylvania as we drove from our hotel near Brazov to Bran Castle. A snowfall this early in October is extremely rare but, for us, was not unwelcomed. This area of the Carpathian Mountains is covered by very tall, magnificent conifers and, cloaked in snow, the effect was magical. Bran Castle is billed as "Dracula's Castle" but the connection to Vlad Tepes, the historical figure who was the inspiration for the fictional Count Dracula more commonly known as "Vlad the Impaler, is tenuous. It is believed that Vlad the Impaler, the ruler of Wallacia (Southern Romania) might have been imprisoned briefly in the castle by the Hungarians, who controlled Transylvania at the time. In the afternoon we descended from the Carpathians and drove across the flat, bleak Wallachian Plain and returned to Bucharest. There we met Chris and Bob , who'd arrived from Philadelphia via London that afternoon. In the evening we had dinner at Caru cu Bere (The Beer Wagon), an ornate Bucharest landmark restaurant.

Statue of King Carol I

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The Rebirth Memorial Eternal Glory to the Romanian Revolution and Its Heroes from December 1989

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The National Museum of Art of Romania, Formrly the Royal Palace.

The National Museum of Art of Romania (Romanian: Muzeul Național de Artă al României) is located in the former royal palace in Revolution Square, central Bucharest, Romania, completed in 1837.[1] It features notable collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family. The museum was damaged during the 1989 Romanian Revolution that led to the downfall of Nicolae Ceaușescu. In 2000, part of the museum reopened to the public, housing the modern Romanian collection and the international collection; the comprehensive Medieval art collection, which now features works salvaged from monasteries destroyed during the Ceaușescu era, reopened in spring 2002.
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Orthodox Church, Bucharest

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The Odeon Theater

The Odeon Theatre (Teatrul Odeon in Romanian) is a theatre in Bucharest, Romania, located on Calea Victoriei, and is one of the best-known performing arts venues in Bucharest. As an institution, it descends from the Teatrul Muncitoresc CFR Giuleşti, founded 1946; it moved to its current location, the Sala Majestic, in 1974. In 1990, after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the theatre changed its name from Giuleşti to Odeon. In 1993, it won the Romanian Theatre of the Year Award. The theatre was built in 1911, and previously housed the Comedy Theatre of the Romanian National Theatre. It is part of a complex that includes a building with apartments and stores (to its north) and the Majestic Hotel (to its south).
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The Club of the National Army

The grand Cercul Militar National was built in 1912, on the site of the former Sarindar Monastery, to be a social, cultural and educational centre for Romanian army officers. It was designed in French neo-Classical style by French architect Ernest Doneaud and Romanian architects Dumitru Maimarolu and Victor Stefanescu.
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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, built between 1897 and 1900

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