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Cluj
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de Arges | Horezu |
Iasi
| Piatra Neamt
| Pitesti
| Ramnicu Valcea
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Mare |
Sibiu
| Sighetu
Marmatiei | Sighisoara
| Suceava
| Targoviste
| Targu
Mures | Timisoara
Alba
Iulia - Restaurants&Bars
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During the Medial Ages but also
in the modern perioad, Alba Iulia was known as an eventful town,
having an important role in the social and political life of Transylvania.
In 1559, the town is conquered by Michael The Brave and in 1600
he united Moldova with the rest of the country. Nowadays Alba
Iulia is distinguished as one of the most beautiful Romanian towns.
From a tourist point of view the
county town holds pride of place. There are many places of interest
but the Citadel, built between 1715 and 1738 on the site
of previous fortifications: the Roman Castrum of the 13th Legion
Gemina (the 2nd and the 3rd centuries) and the Balgrad Citadel
(the 8th and the 13th centuries) is undoubtedly the most important
one. The Citadel hosts the National Union Museum with its tow
buildings: the Union Hall and the Babylon building (a monument
of architecture). The documentary library "Batthyanaeum" with
60,000 books, set up in 1794, is a cultural institution of world
repute. The Roman Catholic Cathedral (the 13th century)
can be found here also. It is the oldest and most valuable monument
of architecture of Transylvania. The Cathedral of Reunion
stands next to it. It was built between 1921 and 1922 symbolizing
the Romanian people's idea of unity.
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Bacau -
Accomodation
The
Bacau county is situated in the Eastern part of Romania, it is 2,8
per cent of Romania's surface. The Municipality of Bacau is the
capital city of this county.
The land of Bacau county which has a varied and picturesque relief
with the Eastern Carpathians and hilly regions washed by the Bistrita,
Trotus, Siret, Tazlau, Casin and Slanic Rivers with their wonderful
valleys and rich flora, is an important point of tourist attraction
consisting in watering places, different natural landscapes, historic
and art monuments, memorial houses. On its surface, forests cover
ha 26,700. The cultivated fields are the other part. At the end
of 1995 the population was of 753,479 inhabitants.
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Baia
Mare - Restaurants&Bars
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Situated at the foot of Gutai
Mountains, on the banks of river Sasar, Baia Mare has been certified
since 1329 and it was called "the town of the Ladies' River".
The eventful history also reveal the relationship between the
Romanian people with those who wanted to occupy the territory.
Baia Mare, the county town, boasts
architectural monuments dating back to the 15th century: Stephen's
Tower, the butchers' bastion or the Elisabeta House.
The Ethnography, Fine Arts of archaeology Museums
are illustrative of the local specific character. Pride of place
is held by the Mineralogy Museum, probably the most visited museum,
unique in the world due to the minerals it displays.
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Buzau
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The
name Buzau comes from the Greek Mousaios, the town lying at the
junction of the four Romanian provinces: Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania
and Dobrogea.
An
important industrial centre, with modern branches, which emerged
between 1970-1990, the town has two representative architectural
objectives: the Bishop Palace, going back to the 15th century and
restored by Matei Basarab in the 16th century, and the Communal
Palace built at the beginning of this century, nowadays the headquarters
of the Town Council.
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Horezu
The name of this town is connected
to the Horezu ceramics, which is known and appreciated in the
25 countries. The skill of inhabitants in the art of clay molding
is recognized through a traditional event-taking place in Horezu
every year. This event is called "The Hurez Cock" ("Cocosul de
Hurez") where masters in ceramics come from all over the country
and from abroad. That is why the town is also called "the capital
of ceramics".
Horezu is not remarkable only
for its ceramics. There is an outdoor museum here, which is unique
in Europe: the Museum of Found Stones. In 1994, a group of archaeologists
discovered near Costesti century-old blocks of stone. Nature twit
its unlimited powers shaped them into different forms of a Dacian,
horse or spear. The Museum of Found Stones, situated on the national
road DN67, only 10km from Horezu has been included among the UNESCO
sights.
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Piatra
Neamt
The county town is situated at an altitude of
345 m in the central zone of Moldavia at the junction of rivers
Bistrita and Cuejdi.
It was mentioned for the first time in a document
in 1387.
Archaeological findings at Izvoare, Valeni and
Batca Doamnei attest that there had been an intense Neolithic
life (the 6th -2nd centuries BC). Important vestiges belong to
the Geto-Dacian civilization proving that there had been a powerfully
developed settlement-Petrodava-in the area.
Among the major attractions of the town that are
worth seeing are:
- The Neamt County Museum - archaeological
and coin collections, exhibits attesting to the modern and contemporary
history of the place, ethnography, fine arts.
- The Fine Art Museum - Romanian fine
art works, tapestry
- The Ethnography Museum - folk costumes,
traditional peasant implements;
- The natural Science Museum - cases
displaying elements of the flora and fauna of the county, collections
of minerals, botanical and geological collections.
- The Princely Court - cellars, inner
walls and old foundations.
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Pitesti
The county town was mentioned for the first time
in a written document on 20 May 1388, signed by Prince Mircea
the Old. The continuity of life on these lands is attested by
archaeological findings.
With its more than 200,000 inhabitants, Pitesti
is 120 km far from Bucharest and only 20 km south of parallel
45, being crossed by the rivers Arges and Doamnei While strolling
through the town, the visitors are tempted to spend some quiet
moments in one of its many parks and gardens (strand, expo-park,
Public Gardens, the Trivale forest and park), which render it
a specific charm. In spring the town is crowded with the tourists
who come for the annual feast of flowers called the "Tulip Symphony",
Pitesti being now known as the "Town of Tulips". Art lovers can
visit the County and Fine Arts Museums,
the Naive Art Gallery, monuments of mediaeval architecture, memorial
houses, art galleries.
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Ramnicu
Valcea
Ramnicu
Valcea stands the place on which thousands years ago there were
permanent and regular human settlements. Archaeological vestiges
discovered up-to-now put the early history of the settlements
nearby to some Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Dacian-Roman building
vestiges proving the continuity of an urban life from the early
history to present times can also be found everywhere. Since early
Middle Age, Ramnicu Valcea is formed as an important fortified
town, taking full advantage of its geographical location on a
very important trade road.
Ramnicu
Valcea has become an important cultural center under the rules
of Matei Basarab and Constantin Brancoveanu: after having built
the first paper mill in Valachia and setting up the printing machine
to Govora in 1705, the scholar Antim Ivireanul brought to Ramnicu
Valcea a new printing machine which will render "the book of Ramnic"
very famous to all the Romanian Countries. Due to this fact, the
great historian Nicolae Iorga used to call Ramnicu Valcea as 'the
capital of the Romanian printing".
On
29th July 1848, the Romania's actual anthem 'Awake you up, Romanian!'
was firstly and officially sang by the Ramnic's inhabitants who
had gathered on the site of the actual Park Zavoi in a large public
Assembly, similar to that of the Islaz Assembly.
Nowadays,
Ramnicu Valcea is a town of 125,000 inhabitants, in full progress,
trying to join both the modern development and the preservation
of the historical monuments and sites together.
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Sighetu
Marmatiei
The second largest town of the county, Sighetu
Marmatiei is an important tourist and cultural center. Worth mentioning
is the Ethnography and Folk Art Museum, with an outdoor section.
Sighet hosts an already famous Festival of Winter Folk Customs
and Traditions every year at the end of December. Also here one
may visit the former prison now called "Memorial to Arrested Thought"
and arranged as museum.
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Sighisoara
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Sighisoara,
situated in Romania center-in Transylvania
province, is renewed by its architecture dating from 14th century.
You have to walk up from the city to the medieval citadel and enter
through the 60-meter-tall clock tower (built in 1360).
The
ocher-colored house named "Casa Vlad Dracul", where the father
of Vlad Tepes, better known as Dracula, once lived, now is a cozy
restaurant. You can find inside Gothic-style furniture and serve
good soups and traditional Romanian dishes. The covered stairway
with 176 steps was made in 17th century. Museums, the Church on
trop of the Hill (14th century) and the Monastery Church (15th
century) both built in the Gothic style are attractions for numerous
tourists.
If
you came in Romania in August don't
miss the "Medieval Art and Theatre Festival" that took
place one week every year in the "Pearl of Transylvania" (Sighisoara).
Actors wearing medieval clothes play drama in the citadel and
music bands play on an installed stage in the centre of the city.
Beer and "mici" (traditional prepared meat) are provided by all
the brand name beer factories from Romania during the festival.
Targu
Mures - Restaurants&Bars
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Tg-Mures is situated in the heart
of Transylvania in picturesque surroundings. The river Mures flows
through the city and its surrounding hills are covered in ash
and oak forests. Romanians and Hungarians both make up the population
of some 160,000 inhabitants. It is the cultural and industrial
centre of the region and also this judicial and administrative
seat
Documents show that the history
of the city goes back more than six centuries. Traces of commercial
activity carried out by the Romans have been found outside the
city, at Cristesti.
Although its architecture does
not reflect that of a typical medieval town, it has many fine
old buildings of interest. The oldest building is the Protestant
church, which was built in the 15th century by voivode Iancu de
Hunedoara, who was also known for his participation in the Last
Crusade. The church has the characteristic features of the Gothic
style and is situated in the town's fortress. The fortress itself,
with its towers and brick walls, is the only one of its kind to
have remained intact.
The cultural history of the town
boasts of many important personalities. Today the cultural activity
is reflected in both the Romanian and Hungarian theatre performed
at the National Theatre, the Philharmonic Orchestra, the History
Museum, (which includes a Natural Science section), the public
libraries and art galleries. Among its academic institutions there
are the three universities: "Petru Maior" University, the University
of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Academy of Dramatic Art. There
is also a Social and Humanities Research Institute within the
Romanian Academy.
The town is well served by communications
and can be reached by road, rail and air. The airport caters for
both national and international flights.
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