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Rick Steves' Europe
Romania
Season 9
Episode 905
Rick and his team tour Romania's vibrant capital, Bucharest, with its "Little Paris of the East" architecture and lingering reminders of a brutal communist dictator. Then they head into Transylvania, where they visit fortified churches, cobbled merchant towns like Sighi?oara, and castles made famous by an imported German king and the real-life Dracula. Finally, they explore Maramure?.
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