Bucharest: enjoy the outdoors

Vitamin D is important to spending time outside is super healthy. Take some time to walk through some of the parks and outdoor places of Bucharest. I selected 3, but depends on time and how far you are from them...you can only do 2 or fit even more things.  

Village Museum

Address: Soseaua Pavel Dimitrievici Kiseleff, sector 1 28-30, Bucuresti 011347, Romania
​Opening Hours: check the website

​"Village Museum official opening took place on 10 May 1936 in the presence of King Carol II, and to the public a week later, May 17, 1936."​ (Source)

Official Name: Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum.
"Creating Village Museum is the result of intense and sustained research, theoretical and field of museological experiments for over a decade, coordinated by Professor Dimitrie Gusti, founder of Sociological School of Bucharest. As head of the Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Gusti organizes between 1925-1935, with specialists from various fields (sociologists, ethnographers, folklorists, geographers, statisticians, doctors) and his students monographic research campaigns, interdisciplinary, a relatively large number of villages" (Source)

Villages like "Fundu Moldova – jud. Suceava, Nereju – jud. Vrancea, Dragus – jud. Brasov, Dragomiresti - jud. Maramures, Clopotiva - jud. Hunedoara Runcu - jud. Gorj, Rusetu – County. Buzau etc" (Source) have been used as initial research

"Beyond the vicissitudes own communist regime, which Romania has passed and that the museum has felt the full, because the professional capacity of director Gheorghe Focsa (former student of D. Gusti) and his refusal to make concessions constraints and pressures of the old regime, the museum has not only to survive, but also to record achievements. (Source) Seems Mr. Gheroghe Focsa did a great job. Check one of the links in the Sources I added, you get so much more on the story of this wonderful museum 

Below it's a traditional house from the Arges county, I highlight it as this is the region from where my grandparents come. 

Part of the family :) me in the window on the left & my parents walking in the park on the right 

And as you might already know, I am very proud of our national blouse (ie) and so here some models you could by within the museum. 

Carol Park

Believe it or not, it was my first time in this Park. To be fair it is a bit far from my house but still. The park is clean and nicely maintained and you have a few things you can check out around.

"The mausoleum was built in honor of revolutionary socialist militants. Designed by architects Horia Maicu and Nicolae Cucu, it was inaugurated on 30 December 1963, the 16th anniversary of the Romanian People's Republic."  (source)

"Monument of the Heroes for the Freedom of the People and of the Motherland, for Socialism"

Below you have on the left one of the Giants' Statues and on the right Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum. In the middle and old tree and one of the favorite activities of old people in Romania, Backgammon table

"Located in front of the park’s main entrance, the fountain dates from 1935 when it was built for the first edition of a popular celebration called “The Bucharest Month”. “The Bucharest Month” had only six editions being held every year between May 9 and June 9 until the starting of the war in 1940. The fountain, looking like a huge footed serving bowl was designed by architect Octav Doicescu and erected by the architects August Schmiedigen and Dorin Pavel. Its name comes from the twelve mosaic representations of the zodiac signs made by scultptor Mac Constantinescu." (Source)

Zodic fountain

Herastrau Park

This is the park where i was going very often during my childhood with my parents. I enjoyed it a lot as it's big and you can run around all you want. you can link visiting the park with passing by the "arc de triomphe" (below), the media house (casa presei) or the village museum.  

You can take the opportunity of cycling, running or even skateboarding in the Park. 

or enjoy the views over the lake, btw in case you like eating "up in the sky", the round building you is is called NOR Sky Bucharest, offering a nice view over the city. 

And so I hope you end up with a very active and nice day in Bucharest