Brand g Bucharest to Budapest Danube River Cruise 2028

Itinerary

9 stops · 8 nights

1. 1
   Bucharest (Romania) Start

   Embarkation

   Bucharest surprises you with the Palace of Parliament, one of the largest administrative buildings in the world. In the old town around Lipscani Street you will find pubs and the old caravanserai Hanul lui Manuc, and on Calea Victoriei there is the Athenaeum and former Royal Palace.

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   Hârșova (Romania)

   Hârșova is located in Dobruja on the right bank of the Danube, where the remains of a Roman and later Ottoman fortress stand above the river. From here, head to Constanța on the Black Sea with its Art Nouveau casino and Roman mosaics.

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   Svishtov (Bulgaria)

   Svishtov is the southernmost point of the Danube and the hometown of the writer Aleko Konstantinov. From here, head to Veliko Tarnovo, the medieval capital of Bulgaria, whose fortress Tsarevets sits on a hill above the Yantra river bend.

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   Nikopol (Bulgaria)

   Nikopol is located on the Bulgarian bank of the Danube, where a Crusader army was defeated by the Ottomans in the Middle Ages. Remnants of the fortress remain above the town, and from here you will drive to Ploven, whose Panorama Museum shows the siege in the Russo-Ottoman War.

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   Iron Gate (Serbia / Romania)

   At the Iron Gate, the Danube squeezes through a gorge over a hundred kilometers long between the Carpathians and the Balkan Mountains. From the ship, you can see the face of the Dacian king Decebalus carved into the rock and the Roman inscription Tabula Traiana on the Serbian shore.

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   Belgrade (Serbia)

   Belgrade is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, overseen by the Kalemegdan Fortress. You stroll through the pedestrian street Knez Mihailova, visit the church of St. Sava and sit in the evenings in the bars of Skadarlija or on the rafts on the riverbank.

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   Mohács (Hungary)

   Mohács is located on the Danube River in southern Hungary, near the borders with Croatia and Serbia. The place is known for the Busójárás, a winter carnival with wooden masks and fur costumes, which is part of UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage, and for the memorial to the battle against the Ottomans.

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   Kalocsa (Hungary)

   Kalocsa is known for peppers and for its colorful floral embroidery, which you can see on traditional costumes and painted house walls. At the Paprika Museum, you can learn how the spice is grown and processed, and in the puszta around the city, riders show off their horse skills.

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   Budapest (Hungary) Finish

   Disembarkation

   Budapest is located on both sides of the Danube: Buda Castle, Matthias Church and Fisherman's Bastion, in Pest the Parliament and St. Stephen's Basilica. In the Széchenyi or Rudas baths you can relax in the thermal water, and in the evening you can wander through the ruin bars in the Jewish quarter.

The ship · Amadeus Nova

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