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At around 3:30 our tour was winding down and the bus took us to the JW Marriott which was very near the Palace of Parliament. The Viking Desk was set up and had our keys ready to go and paperwork for the next morning. The Hotel was was a true palace in itself! We have never stayed in such a lavish Marriott before.. I actually took video of the bathroom and sent it to our daughters. Felt like the Beverly Hillbillies in a fancy hotel for the first time!๐ Too tired to walk back to the Old Town for dinner we ate at the hotel. They had a great assortment of restaurants.. a steakhouse, an Italian restaurant, and a sports bar. We chose the Italian one (very delicious pizza and eggplant parm) and saw a few friends from our cruise.. we greet each other so warmly and were grateful for the opportunity to hug goodbye. It was short night's sleep as we were up at 2:00am and in the lobby at 3:00am for the bus transfer to the airport. Our Air France flight to Paris was at 6:20am.
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Our sweet and knowledgeable guide was very chatty and told us a lot about Romanian history during our 3 hour drive. Once we got to Bucharest our first stop was the main attraction of the tour.. The Palace of the Parliament. What can you say about a 3.54 million square foot building built by a megalomaniac dictator? It's a lot of bathrooms to clean and rugs to shampoo.๐คจ Here is an interesting link about the building. https://passportsymphony.com/heaviest-building-in-the-world/
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It's one of a handful of 360 panorama paintings in the world. There is one just like it in Gettysburg, PA that we actually just happened to visit in July. Also interesting is that the United States manufactured the "best" weapons so many of the guns the soldiers used were made in the USA and shipped to Bulgaria. Remington rifles. The first machine gun.. it shot 300 rounds in one minutes. A lot of period artwork too.
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From Wikipedia.. Eleven Russian and two Bulgarian artists painted and constructed the panoramic painting which includes a 115ร15-meter main canvas and 12-meter foreground. The goal of Ovetchkin and the artists who created the panorama was to create a feeling of empathy for the battle that was fought on the site as well as a feeling of authenticity of the events that occurred on 11 September 1877. The panorama opened to the public on 10 December 1977, 100 years to the day that Field Marshal Osman Pasha surrendered to Colonel Mihail Cerchez, ending the Pleven Epope.