Bucharest rarely tops the city-break option list, but to ignore the capital of Romania is a mistake. The city is full of historic churches and excellent museums, and home to a collection of quirkier crowd-pullers, including the heaviest building in the world and the alleged gravesite of Vlad the Impaler, the notorious 15th-century Romanian ruler who was the inspiration for Dracula. Interested now?
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