While it’s a great place just to wander and take in the incredible scenery and gorgeous Ottoman homes, the UNESCO World Heritage listed old town of Safranbolu has a few other sights to keep a visitor busy during their stay.
When I first arrived in Niğde, I was second guessing my choice to visit. It’s not a beautiful city by any means. Outside of the decent city center, this Central Anatolian city is an otherwise dusty and ugly town. However, once I started exploring, I realized it’s been blessed with a few unique sites built by four different civilizations.
Victory Avenue (Calea Victoriei) is a historic street that leads north from the heart of Bucharest. My posts about Old Town and Revolution Square cover a lot of the sights along the street. This entry covers some other sights between Revolution Square and Victory Square.
Revolution Square (Piața Revoluției) in Bucharest was the site of brutal dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s infamous final speech on December 21, 1989, during the Romanian Revolution.
While exploring the concrete mess along Union Boulevard (Bulevardul Unirii) in Bucharest, you’ll realize there’s not much of interest along the way. You have to go behind the buildings to really explore. Why? The blocks of buildings located in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Civic Center project (Centrul Civic) were also meant to hide churches.
Sibiu was the most important town for Transylvanian Saxons who settled in the area. It was founded in the 1191 at the site of the ancient Roman town of Cibinium.
There are plenty of great attractions to find in the historic city center of Brașov.
To the west of the historic walled city of Brașov is the neighborhood of Șchei, which was traditionally Bulgarian and Romanian. Residents of the area were not allowed to own property within the city walls until the 17th century. They could only enter the city gates at certain times and had to pay a toll to do so.
The Burgas seaside is a great place to spend a sunny day. Unfortunately, on the day I visited, it was gray and rainy, but I still enjoyed wandering around the gardens overlooking the beach.
Kavarna (Каварна) is a small Black Sea resort town in northeastern Bulgaria. Although I didn’t make it as far as the beach, I stopped and took a quick look at the town on my way to visit nearby Cape Kaliakra.