Rediscovering Bucharest with free bilingual tours

Newsroom 24/07/2012 | 09:50

Between July 28 and September 9, the Romanian Association for Culture, Education and Normality (ARCEN) invites people to discover the Romanian Capital with free, bilingual, walking tours. The third edition of the project called “Cu bastonul prin Bucuresti” (With the cane in Bucharest) will be held every weekend in George Enescu Square, meeting point in front of Athenaeum from 11.00 on Saturdays and 18:00 on Sundays. The tours will offer historical details from the interwar period in Bucharest.

For this year, the organizers chose to talk about how Bucharest’s citizens overcame the economic crisis from 1929 and details about how people spent their summer 70-80 years ago: what were the Bucharest hotspots, what the favorite dishes were, what songs were popular and how people cooled off from the heat. The tours will also tell stories of love and intrigue, as well as the famous Bucharest jokes and gossip that were listen and told from one end to the other of Calea Victoriei.

The free guided tour will last two hours and it will be available in Romanian, English and French.