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Bucharest Classic Car Show 2011

Aleksandr Shatskih

For the second year in a row, Bucharest will host the Bucharest Classic Car Show, an event organized by World Trade Center Bucharest, and the Retromobil Club of Romania.

15 years ago

Carpathian Nations Agree Sustainable Tourism Deal

Aleksandr Shatskih

The seven Eastern European countries that share the Carpathian Mountains have made an important deal to jointly manage the development of sustainable tourism in the region, it has been announced. Sustainable tourism is of course, fundamentally important to the region, hence the countries willingness to adopt the UN Environment Program and UNWTO-drafted Protocol on Sustainable […]

15 years ago

Fronius Residence Offers Free Guided Tours of Sighisoara

Aleksandr Shatskih

Aside five-star luxury accommodation in Romania’s walled old town, the Fronius Residence offers free guided tours of the Citadel.

15 years ago

Piatra Neamt and the Potential of Romanian Travel

Aleksandr Shatskih

The region of Piatra Neamt, with its beautiful surroundings – nature parks, medieval fortresses, traditional villages, monasteries and year round festivals – is a travel operator’s dream. It’s a place that is bursting with tourism potential, and yet, it just hasn’t happened. The problems lie not just with the local authorities, but with local tour […]

15 years ago

A Royal Date with Count Dracula?

Aleksandr Shatskih

It would be Romanian tourism’s biggest boost since Count Dracula. The tiny Transylvanian village of Viscri has surprisingly been mentioned as one of the potential honeymoon destinations for Prince William and soon-to-be Princess Kate.

15 years ago

Romania Tourism Fair Holiday Market in Full Swing

Mihaela Lica Butler

Holiday Market, an international tourism fair, opened its gates at The Parliament Palace in Bucharest on March 17. The fair remains open till Sunday March 20, 2011.

15 years ago

Romania Celebrates March 1st with Mărțișor

Mihaela Lica Butler

Romania and Bulgaria celebrate the 1st of March with a very interesting tradition. Mărțișor in Romania, and Martenitsa in Bulgaria, are all about welcoming the upcoming spring, and more.

15 years ago

Dragobete, Romania’s Equivalent of Valentine’s Day, Celebrated Today

Mihaela Lica Butler

Dragobete, the Romanian celebration of love, is gaining momentum. If you are a Romanian, Happy Dragobete!

15 years ago

Sun Plaza – Romania’s Guinness Book Poster Child

Aleksandr Shatskih

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.

15 years ago

Brâncuşi’s Gate of the Kiss – A Metaphor of Romanian Spirit

Mihaela Lica Butler

Romania celebrates today Constantin Brâncuşi’s 135th birthday – a reason for Argophilia to invite you to Târgu Jiu, to see the sculptor’s finest outdoors works.

15 years ago

Foreign Visits to Romania on the Rise

Mihaela Lica Butler

Foreign tourism in Romania is in recovery mode, but the country still has a lot to do to enrich the tourist market in the country with authentic values.

15 years ago

The Wooden Churches of Maramureş

Aleksandr Shatskih

Visitors to Rogoz will find one of Romania’s greatest architectural treasures, a painstakingly detailed church known as the Wooden Church of the Holy Archangels. Situated along the valley of the Lapus River, where once a different church once stood in the spot, the current edifice was constructed in 1663 by the villagers of there.

15 years ago

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