Shops sell local wines and beaded jewelry, while elegant restaurants in 19th-century buildings serve traditional dishes. Buzzing pubs and discos draw crowds after dark.
Old Town
Bucharest’s grand Old Town is home to Vlad the Impaler’s former court at Curtea Veche, now an open-air museum of excavated medieval ruins, and the National Museum of Romanian History showing religious icons and royal treasures in a former palace.
