Herăstrău & the North

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Herăstrău & the North and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The Romanian Athenaeum10 min taxi3.5 km
• The National Art Museum11 min taxi3.6 km
• Revolution Square11 min taxi3.7 km
• Romanian food13 min taxi4.2 km
• Stavropoleos Monastery13 min taxi4.4 km
• The Old Town (Lipscani)14 min taxi4.6 km
• Bucharest nightlife14 min taxi4.6 km
• The Palace of the Parliament15 min taxi4.9 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 5.The Village Museum — A wonderful open-air museum on the shore of Herăstrău lake — hundreds of authentic traditional houses, churches, windmills and farmsteads brought from every region of Romania and reassembled among the trees, a whole rural country in miniature. A delightful, peaceful stroll through centuries of folk architecture and village life; one of Europe's best ethnographic museums and a lovely half-day, especially combined with the park around it. Charming and evocative.
• 8.Herăstrău Park & lake — Bucharest's biggest and most beautiful park — a vast green expanse around a large lake in the leafy north, with shady paths, gardens, boat trips, waterside restaurants and terraces where the city comes to walk, cycle and relax. A gorgeous escape from the urban bustle and a window into local life, especially lovely on a warm evening; hire a pedal boat, stroll the lakeshore, and enjoy the greenest, most relaxed side of the city.
• 13.The Arch of Triumph — Bucharest's own Arc de Triomphe — a grand stone triumphal arch on a leafy northern boulevard, built to celebrate Romania's WWI victory, a proud symbol of the 'Little Paris' era. Climb it on the rare open days for a view down the tree-lined avenue, or simply admire it on the way to Herăstrău park nearby; it neatly captures the city's Francophile 19th-century ambitions. A handsome landmark in the elegant north.