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Top 5 Shopping Destinations in Eastern Europe

2012-06-05 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Prague shopping.

If shopping is your thing, and Europe is your chosen destination this Summer, then what lies to the East is simply a must see for any stylish traveler. Paris, Rome, Milan, Budapest, Bucharest, and Bratislava, not many people make such parallels. But, for a unique look at chic places to be a clothes horse, check out these top shopping hot spots in Eastern Europe.

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Sun Plaza Mall: Sunniest Mall in Bucharest, Romania

2012-03-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Claiming itself to be the largest shopping center in Eastern Europe, Sun Plaza Mall was inaugurated on February 25, 2010 and since then, has received two CIJ Awards in the categories of “Best Shopping Centre Development” and “Best Overall Development” and it has also achieved an official record, accepted by the Guinness Book – In 2010, it created the world’s largest indoor Christmas display, using 449,658 lights.

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Sun Plaza – Romania’s Guinness Book Poster Child

2011-02-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sun Plaza in the Spring season

Located in Bucharest, Romania, the Sun Plaza shopping center is an indoor shopping complex that landed a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in November of 2010, when it displayed an indoor Christmas lights decoration featuring 449,658 light bulbs.

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