Wallachia is located in the south of Romania. Its northern border is marked by the Southern Carpathians, the river Danube on the south. Land, mountainous in the north, and towards the south it gradually becomes plain highlands and lowlands, rozciąga się od Żelaznej Bramy na …
Category Archives: Romania
Food
Self-catering in Romania will not cause any trouble to the traveler. In stores without a problem (Read: there are no queues) you can get basic food items, at much more favorable prices than in Poland. Going to the mountains, …
Active recreation – Holidays
ACTIVE RECREATION
Skiing
All famous ski resorts, mainly Sinaia, Busteni, Predeal and Poiana Brasov, are situated in the Carpathians. They have a nice background: cable cars, chairlifts and modern hotels. The ski slopes in Sinai are located on the …
Insurance
PERSONAL INSURANCE
Insurance of treatment costs
It guarantees your reimbursement: direct medical assistance, including transport costs to an outpatient clinic or hospital, further outpatient or inpatient treatment (but only up to the point, when the patient's condition allows him to be transported to Poland), research, treatments, …
Main attractions
MAIN ATTRACTIONS
Museum and gallery
The Archaeological Museum of Constana has one of the best collections of Greek and Roman products in Eastern Europe. Cluj Ethnographic Museum, The Museum of Folk Techniques in Sibiu and the Village Museum in Bucharest perfectly present Romanian folk culture. …
Planning a trip
TRAVEL PLANNING
Climate – when to go
The average annual temperature is 11 ° C in the eastern part and on the coast, but only 2 ° C in the mountains. Winters can be extremely frosty and foggy, with significant snowfall from mid-December to mid-April. Hot, sunny …
Tongue
TONGUE
Romanian is closer to ancient Latin than to the other Romance languages. The amazing fact, although it comes almost exclusively from spoken Latin (Brought by Roman soldiers and administrators), retained the classic grammatical structures and basic vocabulary. Between VII …
Culture and art
PIECE
The most magnificent monuments of Romanian plastic art are wall paintings covering the facades of 16th-century Orthodox churches in northern Moldova and in Wallachia. It is also worth mentioning the icons painted on wood and glass, to this day emerging in Transylvania.
Recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of painting …
Population
POPULATION
Romania counts 20 million people, of which 53% are city dwellers. The average population density is 98 people per km2. The largest city is Bucharest (2,5 million inhabitants), the next one is Constanta (350 000), Jassy (345 000), Timisoara (334 000), Kluż-Napoka (328 …
Economy
ECONOMY
The transition from a centrally planned to a market economy has not been easy. Romania exports mineral resources, chemical products, industrial machinery, textiles and semi-finished products. The basic principle of Ceausescu's policy was self-sufficiency. From 1980 r. everything was done, to pay off 10 billions of dollars in foreign debt. …