Romania Our country

About Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south.

Maramures MONUMENTS

1. Museum of Maramures Museum of Maramures is designed as a village in the open air, they were built or homes and households to subareas in Maramures. They represent a set of rustic architectural monuments, very old old. 2. Mocanita Mocanita is steam train that takes you the most beautiful and wild scenery of Maramures Mountains, the valley is more like a canyon vessels where steep cliffs alternate with thick forests, beautiful meadows and springs.

3. Merry Cemetery from Sapanta Merry Cemetery in Sapanta has got the name because of the crosses on the graves that are colorful and satirical epitaph inscribed with poems. It has become over time a sight that brought fame to some locality where found - Sapanta. 4. Horse Falls Horse Falls is located near Borsa resort, in the Rodna Mountains. Water is collected in a cirque flows over a steep limestone called Horse Bridge, in several steps, resulting in the highest waterfall in Romania.

Prahova MONUMENTS

1. Peles Castel Peles Castle in Sinaia, the most impressive castle in Romania, is a major tourist landmark in the Prahova Valley. Peles Castle now houses an extensive museum with valuable collections of paintings, sculptures, armor, carpets etc. 2. Mountain of Salt Salt Mountain is located in Prahova Slanic the Slanic built city, with street entrance Baciului bathroom.

3. Cross Heros Cross Heroes is a monument built between on Mount Caraiman to honor the memory of heroes who died in WWI. Name of the monument is the Cross Heroes, but popular is called Cross Caraiman. 4. Peak Babele Monument located on the plateau near the chalet Babele Bucegi and the Sphinx. Their appearance on legends and theories formed. Some scholars consider that agents model were supported by water and wind frozen and thawed. It has in mind alternating rocks, sandstones and limestones of the plateau. But human intervention can not be denied to finishing forms more or less regular. So far, no scientific evidence could not explain the entire phenomenon and thus legends around these rocks is still developing, connecting the supernatural with the reality

Targu Jiu MONUMENTS

1. The Endless Column Inaugurated on October 27, 1938, column has a height of meters and consists of 15 modules octahedral, with the upper and lower extremities half a module. Sculpture is a stylization of specific funeral columns southern Romania. Her original name was "Column endless gratitude" and dedicated to the Roman soldiers of World War who died in 1916 fighting on the banks of the Jiu.

2. Kissing gate Kissing Gate is a sculpture, made ​​ by Constantin Brancusi, part of the triptych monumental ensemble from Targu Jiu. Kissing gate, which is located on the driveway at the entrance of the town park, is carved porous stone, extracted from quarries located in the neighborhood, consisting of thick columns, rectangular, which supports an architrave with a larger size than the columns. 3. Table of Scilence Table of Silence, Gate of Infinity Column with Kiss is one of the three pieces of monumental sculpture in Targu Jiu Ensemble Monumental Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Table of Silence, worked in limestone, is mass confrontation in the battle before the combatants to attend. Time is now being represented by the circular arrangement of the 12 seats, hourglasses, you measure. Everything is silent.

Danube Delta LANDSKAPES

The Danube Delta is the largest and best preserved delta in Europe. It covers an area of 3446 km ² is limited to the southwest of Dobrogea Plateau, east of the Black Sea and north of Ukraine. The Danube Delta deal with Razim Sinoe an area of ​​ 5050 km ² of which 732 km ² is located in Ukraine. Once in Patlageanca, the Danube is divided in two branches, Chilia (N) and Tulcea (S), the latter bifurcates in Santa Gheorghe arm Sulina and St. George. While Chilia (104 km), forms the northern border with Ukraine and carries most of the water and silt forming the Danube Delta, Sulina is situated in the middle of the Danube Delta and bring a water intake 18% of the total reaching the delta. Sulina is always dragged the entire length of 71 km, to allow navigation in good condition. George Sf course is oriented to the southeast, and runs on 112 km, carrying 22% of Danube flow. Islands formed when flowing Sacalin considered a top secondary delta.