The Danube from Romania to Budapest

Overview

A 9-night voyage aboard Avalon Illumination, departing Bucharest on 11 May 2027 and arriving in Budapest, calling at 13 destinations along the way.

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   Day 1 ·Bucharest, RomaniaEmbark

   11 May 2027

   Bucharest, in southern Romania, is the country's capital and commercial center. Its iconic landmark is the massive, communist-era Palatul Parlamentului government building, which has 1,100 rooms. Nearby, the historic Lipscani district is home to an energetic nightlife scene as well as tiny Eastern Orthodox Stavropoleos Church and 15th-century Curtea Veche Palace, where Prince Vlad III (“The Impaler”) once ruled.
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   Day 2 ·Oltenita

   12 May 2027

   Oltenița is a city in Muntenia, Romania in the Călărași County on the left bank of the river Argeș where its waters flows into the Danube. Oltenița stands across the Danube from the Bulgarian city of Tutrakan.
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   Day 3 ·Rousse

   13 May 2027

   Ruse, is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria. Ruse is in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, approximately 75 km south of Bucharest, Romania's capital, 200 km from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and 300 km from the capital Sofia.
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   Day 3 ·Veliko Tarnovo

   13 May 2027

   Veliko Tarnovo is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.
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   Day 3 ·Arbanassi

   13 May 2027

   Arbanasi is a village in Veliko Tarnovo Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province of central northern Bulgaria, set on a high plateau between the larger towns of Veliko Tarnovo and Gorna Oryahovitsa.
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   Day 4 ·Vidin, Bulgaria

   14 May 2027

   Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin.
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   Day 5 ·Iron Gates

   15 May 2027
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   Day 6 ·Belgrade, Serbia

   16 May 2027

   Belgrade is the capital of the southeast European country of Serbia. Its most significant landmark is the Beogradska Tvrđava, an imposing fortress at the confluence of the Danube and the Sava rivers. The fort is a testament to the city’s strategic importance to the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Serbian and Austrian empires, and it's now the site of several museums as well as Kalemegdan, a vast park.
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   Day 7 ·Novi Sad

   17 May 2027

   Novi Sad is a city in northern Serbia on the banks of the Danube River. Standing atop a riverside bluff, much of Petrovaradin Fortress dates to the 17th and 18th centuries, with an iconic clock tower and a network of tunnels. Across the river is the old quarter, Stari Grad, site of the Gothic Revival Name of Mary Church and the neo-Renaissance City Hall.
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    Day 8 ·Vukovar

    18 May 2027

    Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of Vukovar-Syrmia County. The city's registered population was 26,468 in the 2011 census, with a total of 27,683 in the municipality.
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    Day 8 ·Ilok

    18 May 2027
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    Day 9 ·Mohacs

    19 May 2027

    Mohács is a town in Baranya county, Hungary on the right bank of the Danube.
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    Day 10 ·Budapest, HungaryDisembark

    20 May 2027

    Budapest, Hungary’s capital, is bisected by the River Danube. Its 19th-century Chain Bridge connects the hilly Buda district with flat Pest. A funicular runs up Castle Hill to Buda’s Old Town, where the Budapest History Museum traces city life from Roman times onward.

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