Cismigiu Gardens | Romania Travel Destinations

Cismigiu Gardens in Bucharest

August 30, 2012 / Attractions / Cities /

No visit to Bucharest is complete without spending at least an hour walking around Cismigiu Gardens, a park located smack dab in the center of the city. Popular year-round, this park is where Bucharest locals spend their free time on a regular basis meeting with friends, taking a coffee or beer, or even just for a leisurely stroll during pleasant weather. Immaculately maintained, Cismigiu Gardens may appear to be a better fit in a city like Vienna or Paris, but the fact that it is found in the sometimes dirty capital of Bucharest makes it all the more enchanting. The [...]

Places to visit in Bucharest

March 6, 2012 / Attractions / Cities /

Bucharest sometimes hides its most beautiful places and can be a little bit confusing with all the gray tall buildings, mixed with old beautiful 19th century houses, peaceful lakes, vast green parks and loud markets. If you’re ready for exploring, Romania’s capital will definitely surprise and charm you. Bucharest is not the “Little Paris” it was back in the 1900s but it certainly has a strange and magic mix of high life, medieval, industrial and communist flavors. Cismigiu Gardens This beautiful park was designed in 1845 by the German landscape architect Carl Meyer and it opened to the public in [...]