The "Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum

The "Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum is one of the biggest attractions of Bucharest. The museum was since it`s opening in 1936 and until present, one of the few places what you can visit and go home after with an accurate impression of what Romanian folklore is like. It contains 322 buildings, including 47 homes, household, three wooden churches and 3 windmills. Rested on a side of Herastrau lake the museum looks peaceful and calm, as a foreign piece of world dropped from the sky in the heart of Bucharest present. As it`s founder, Dimitrie Gusti , used to call it: "a sad sound of the bells of Romanian history", this place can only fulfill my heart with joy and pride, each time i go and visit it. And for a brief time I imagine myself walking along with the brave countryman and drinking a pint of wine under a straw roof, and cannot help but wander if the happiness was not much simple back then.

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The Cave of Bears

First time I ever had contact with The Cave of Bears was when I was around 12 and I was going there in a school trip with my classmates. Maybe I was not able to admire the formations of stalactites and stalagmites which united the ceiling of the cave with it`s floor or the beautiful animal fossils which disappeared long before I was born but i can still remember the chills and the coldness of the cave breathe. Some history to begin with: the cave was discovered by accident in 1975 and consists in galleries located on two levels, with a length of over  1,500 m. Is situated in the heart of Apuseni Mountains near the Bihor county. The upper floor is open for tourists and is a breath taking journey trough corridors scattered with wild animals bones and petrified water columns. Now, at the peak of my youth I look upon this cave and I can not get rid of the feeling that the water drops that even now pour from it`s ceilings are the tears of our nation that is still tearing it`s uniqueness.

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The MNAC Terrace

As even few Bucharest`s people know, on the top of The House of People there is actually a terrace where you can relax, have a tea or a coffee and enjoy an unique view over the city. I will not get into heavy details concerning the history of the Parliament Palace, because actually I was never fascinated by our politics or communist past or even our messy present. So, the only thing that I enjoy going thru the massive walls and climbing the brute stone stairs and even waiting patiently to go thru the metal detectors is the coffee shop that rests on the top of the 12 levels from the surface and another 8 on the ground. The coffee and the terrace that is an annex of it, belongs to the National Museum of Contemporary Art. It is open from Wednesday to Sunday between 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and after an exciting journey through abstract art galleries you lay down on a wooden chair and look upon the Bucharest`s horizon. Much to see unfortunately you have none. Beside the mixture of old buildings and twinkling skyscrapers you can reflect upon a sadness and a quietness  that seems to surround the city. What is indeed unique about the view is the immensity of the Bucharest. A city that describes the poverty and the wealth of Romania, a country that yet bleeds it`s history thru it`s national patrimonies. What else is remained to say... I think the idea of selling a bear on top of the People Palace was not what Ceausescu had in mind when he raise this place up.

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