Yet Bucharest has been a cultural gem for hundreds of years.

Learn a little more about your own backyard during this half-term holiday at these local cultural gems.

Begin your journey by exploring one of the world's most fascinating cultural gems, the Vatican Museum!

Williamsburg, Virginia is a cultural gem, a place of living history, a lovely colonial smorgasbord.

Poland's second largest city, Krakow is one of Eastern Europe's historical and cultural gems.

And, in fact, wonderful art museums, ballet, opera and one of the country's outstanding bookstores make Denver a cultural gem.

Use your time to wander the cobbled streets and back lanes of this cultural and historic gem.

In fact it's more a question of what to miss out: Villa Pia is surrounded by cultural gems.

Don't sit idly by and let New York City lose a cultural gem.

State ownership is vital," he said, "to prevent a cultural gem from being developed into condos or commercial use if it fell into private hands.