Local info

Tourist Info Center at "Piata Universitatii" Passage (at the entrence to "Universitate" subway station): http://en.seebucharest.ro/touristic_info?cat_str_key=bucharest Bucharest City Tour is the best way to get familiar with the capital of Romania – Bucharest City – a town dating back to 15th century. The chipset way (approx. 6 €)– is to choose the Bucharest City Tour by bus. The panoramic tour includes: Herăstrău Park, “Dimitrie Gusti” National, The Arch of Triumph, The Museum of the Romanian Peasant ”Grigore Antipa” Museum The National Museum of Geology  Creţulescu Church The Romanian Athenaeum The former Royal Palace The National Museum of Romanian History The CEC Palace The Palace of the Parliament The Architectural Ensemble on Mitropoly Hill and the Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral The Bucharest City Museum The Museum of Romanian Literature The Victoria Palace Charles de Gaulle’s Statue

More information about Bucharest City Tour: http://bucharestcitytour.ratb.ro/descriere_eng.html

What else can we visit in Bucharest:

• The Palace of the Parliament: http://www.cdep.ro/pls/cic/site.visits?idv=2&idl=EN
• Cotroceni National Museum: http://www.muzeulcotroceni.ro/engleza/index_eng.html
• Village Museum: http://www.muzeul-satului.ro

USEFUL INFORMATION

• The Romanian currency is LEU.
• The notes are: 1 LEU, 10 LEI, 50 LEI, 100 LEI, 500 LEI.
• Information about means of transportation in Bucharest (tram, trolleybus, bus): http://www.ratb.ro/
• Subway information (metro network): http://www.metrorex.ro/first_page_p785-2
• The price of the taxi is 1, 39 – 3, 50 LEI/km (around 0,31 - 0,79 EURO/km).
• A bus or troleybus ticket costs 1.3 LEI (around 0.29 EURO).
• Subway (Metro) cards cost: 5 LEI (around 1.13 EURO) for two ways, and 20 LEI (around 4.53 EURO) for ten ways.                   
• 1 EURO~4.4 RON (http://coinmill.com/EUR_RON.html).
• Official exchange rate: http://www.cursbnr.ro/

• TOURIST INFORMATION

http://www.inyourpocket.com/romania/bucharest/en 

• WEATHER

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/15420.html

• TRAVEL AND VISA
  

Upon request, the Symposium Organizer will send you a letter of invitation to obtain a visa. Applications for a letter of invitation should be sent to the Symposium Organizer before May 1^st, 2015. Applications received after May 1^st, 2015, will not be dealt with.


Further information follows.