Tag Archive | romania
Beautiful Romania : Timisoara.
Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with a population of 303,708 inhabitants (the third most populous city in the country, as of 2011), and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center […]
Beautiful Romania : Lake Sfanta Ana.
Lake Sfanta Ana is the only crater lake in Romania located in the volcanic crater named “Puciosul” of the Eastern Carpathians, near Tuşnad in the Natural Reserve of Mohoș, Harghita County, Romania.Palynology studies concluded that the history of Lake Saint Anne began about 9,800-8,800 years ago, at the stage of peat bog and shallow lake.It […]
Beautiful Romania : Fagaras Mountains.
Fagaraș Mountains are the highest mountains of the Southern Carpathians, in Romania. The highest peaks are Moldoveanu (2544 m), Negoiu (2535 m), Viștea Mare (2527 m), Lespezi (2522 m), Vânătoarea lui Buteanu (2507 m), and Dara (2501 m). They are bordered in the north by the Făgăraș Depression, through which the Olt river flows, and […]
Beautiful Romania : Cisnadioara, Sibiu.
Cisnădioara is a village located 2 km west of Cisnădie. Initially, it was listed as one of the ten possessions of the Cistercian abbey at Cârţa. The fortified church, built entirely of stone, was first referred to in a document dated November 20, 1223, which mentioned its donation to the abbey. The oldest Romanesque style […]
Beautiful Romania : Bucharest.
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of the Danube.Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. It became the capital […]
Beautiful Romania : Danube Valley.
Danube, the second river from Europe (2857km.) after Volga, in length as well as in debit, has as source Padurea Neagra Mountains (Germany) and disgorges in Black Sea trough its three channels: Chilia, Sulina si Sf Gheorghe. In its way, passes several mountains, eight countries (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine) and three […]
Beautiful Romania : Old Casino, Constanta.
The Casino’s history begins in 1880, shortly after the Independence War with the Ottoman Empire (1877). The Casino was one of the first buildings in the city, almost immediately after that city was taken by the Romanian government and changed its name from the turkish Kustenge in Constanţa. At that time, the Casino was called […]
Beautiful Romania : Fagaras Fortress.
The feudal Castle in Fagaras, whose construction began in the late fourteenth century and continued through successive additions until the middle of the eighteenth century, was preceded by a wooden fort, surrounded by a moat and wave of land, archaeological attested to XII century. This fort, evidence of local feudal political organization as a “voivodat”, […]
Beautiful Romania : Mogosoaia Palace.
Mogoșoaia Palace is situated about 10 kilometres from Bucharest, Romania. It was built between 1698-1702 by Constantin Brâncoveanu in what is called the Romanian Renaissance style or Brâncovenesc style, a combination of Venetian and Ottoman elements. The palace bears the name of the widow of the Romanian boyar Mogoș, who owned the land it was […]
Beautiful Romania : The Red Lake, Harghita.
Red Lake is a natural storage lake formed in 1837 and it’s located near the foot of Hasmasul Mare mountain, near Gheorgheni. After measurements made in 1987 the lake sizes are: 2830 m perimeter, area 114,676 m², 587,503 m³ volume of water accumulated. The lake is shaped like the letter L, and has two arms: […]
