The Amazing Romania

Romania is a unique country, located in the central-eastern Europe. Although, its not among the first destinations that someone would choose to visit, yet it’s a magnificent and a beautiful country with many amazing things to see. The future visitor should not worry about the communication when he gets there, as Romanian language sits among the easiest ones and with a small preparation and some Romanian Lessons prior to the journey, he should be able to feel (almost) like a local!

In the past, it was harder for someone to obtain the resources in order to help him learn it, but recently, all the material is available online, numerous applications, sites that offer online Romanian lessons for them who are willing to learn this pretty interesting language.

In this article we will present some amazing and interesting facts about Romania. Did you know that 7 Romanian landmarks are declared Unesco patrimony? These are: The Danube Delta, the painted churches in the north of Moldavia, the Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, the historic center of Sighisoara, the Horezu Monastery, the villages with the fortified churches in Transylvania and the wooden churches in Maramures.

Speaking about wooden churches, the highest in Europe is located in Maramures as it was mentioned and is Peri Monastery. It is 78 meters high with its cross at 7 meter high.

In the second place, this time, in Europe, regarding the Cave Glacier, is the Scarisoara cave, which is located at the foot of the Bihor Mountains, with 75.000 cubic meter and more than 3.500 years of history. A really great and breathtaking site.

Romania’s culture is premium, so the visitor will notice that this country is full of museums. Among them, the Astra Museum in Sibiu, is the second largest open-air museum in the world. It hosts works of traditional, pre-industrial folk civilization. This museum is expanded in approximately 1000 square meters with even a lake in it.

Another interesting cultural fact about Romania is, the Calusul dance, an extremely old dance, which is believed to represent both the galloping of a horse and dances with the fairies. The dancers are known for their ability to create the impression of flying in the air!

Remaining on the cultural site of our facts about Romania, the castle of Dracula, probably the most famous landmark in this country, could not be out of our list. Inspired by Count Dracula, Bram Stoker created the fictional version of Vlad the Impaler.

Additionally and as far as language and specifically written language concerned, according to some archaeologists, the oldest forms of writing in the world, were discovered in a village named Tartaria in Romania. Of course, this discovery had nothing to do with the Romanian language as we know it.

An amazing fact about Romania, is that in there, is located the second-largest administrative building for civilian use in the world which is also the most expensive administrative building and the heaviest in the world, according to the Guiness Book. It contains 1.100 rooms!

Among others first places in Europe or worldwide, we can find also the most beautiful road in the world. It is called Transfagarasan and definitely will challenge our driving skills containing 90 klm in the heart of the nature, giving us the most wonderful view as we are driving higher to the top.

These were only some of the cool and interesting facts that someone can find in Romania. We can reassure you that there are plenty of them more to discover in every domain that someone will have in his mind and it will help him to decide to visit this country (cultural, natural, religious and so on).