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Archive for the Romania Category
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Scarisoara – an ice cave and the oldest glacier in the world
Summer and cold? Heaven for me (someone living in the heat of Bucharest during summer). We’ve spent one of the first days of our vacation in the Apuseni Mountains (Western Carpathians) from this year visiting two caves: the one at Scarisoara and
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The Turda Saline – a great place to visit in Romania for pleasure, fun and health
Located at 30 km from the city of Cluj, along DN1 (national road 1), Turda is a town famous in history for its salt mine. The first documented proof of salt extraction in Turda dates from 1271. Between 2008-2010 the salt mine in Turda was renovate
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The beautiful and dear Aiud
by Valentina Roman Aiud is a city located in Transylvania which has an interesting story related to medieval and contemporary times. Here you can find many historical buildings, museums and churches. It is a small city, having a not very attrac
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Photo of the week: Saint Elijah Monastery (Manastirea Sfantul Ilie)
In this year's vacation we saw an interesting, rather new, monastery in the Western Carpathians, in the Albac village: The Monastery of St. Elijah/Elias (in Romanian Manastirea Sfantul Ilie). Today a photo of the entrance in this monastery. Enjoy!
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Mountain – fossilized snails
In this year’s vacation we went in the Apuseni mountains. One day we went visiting the memorial house of Avram Iancu, an important leader in Romania’s history. We will soon present this memorial house here. On the road to this museum we passed
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Traveling in medieval times – Corvins’ Castle
by Valentina Roman If you love the medieval atmosphere, you should definitely go to Hunedoara - the place were you can find the most important Gothic-style secular building in Transylvania. I guess you know about “Transylvania”, due of Drac
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Photo of the week: back in time – cradle
This is the original cradle of one of the most important figures in Romania’s history: Avram Iancu - his memorial house will be presented here soon.
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Photo of the week: Turda Saline (Romania), boats section
A picture from this year's vacation - Turda Saline. Of course full details on this saline to come soon here on the blog.
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The Merry Cemetery at Sapanta (Maramures, Romania)
In the north part of Romania there is a special touristic point of interest: a happy cemetery. How can there be a "happy" epithet near "cemetery". Is there something merry about a burial place? In 1934 Stan Ioan Patras wrote a short epitaph on
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A white peacock? Yes, along with an “usual” one
In Bucharest there is a great park - Herastrau (already mentioned in the post on the Village Museum ). I'm preparing a long walk through the entire park so I'll offer you a photo post on the park. Until then, however, a friend of mine - Mirela - m
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