A country to enjoy

legacies of a troubled but inspiring heritage

legends like that of count dracula or the real history of romania are testimonies of such an exciting past. such a heritage is to be found in the high-roofed wooden churches of transylvania. admire the 16th century artistic treasures of the bucovina monasteries, or listen spellbound to george enescus romanian rhapsody with brilliantly inspired from folklore themes. the most decisive influence on this countrys development was that of ancient rome.
music and traditional dress
are part of the romanian life

six hundred thousand years of history

signs of human life are to be found in the carpathian mountains since around 600.000 bc. although there had been greek colonies on the black sea coast since the 6th century bc, the first centralised kingdom was of a thracian people called the dacians.
this dacian civilisation reached its heyday under decebalus, in...