Time to See Bucharest (independent day) 54

Free day in Bucharest. Suggestions: Choral Temple (an exquisite synagogue); National Art Museum, hosted in the former Royal Palace; National History Museum; Primăverii Palace (the former residence of communist dictator Nicolae Ceauseșcu and his family). In the nearby Village Museum you may walk through an open-air landscape of authentic houses, churches and workshops brought from all regions of Romania, stepping from one historical era to another while discovering how rural families lived, worked and organized their daily life for centuries. You may taste the ample choices of local street food, very popular among the locals and increasingly sought after by foreign foodies. And the Cismigiu Garden invites you to take a stroll through its shaded alleyways or to row on its two interconnected lakes and under the original arched stone footpaths.