This Balkan country with a Romance language is a place of fascinating contrasts, from relatively modern capital Bucharest to beach resorts to mountain villages with age-old lifestyles. And of course there's Transylvania, the beautiful home of you-know-who!

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Timişoara a European Capital of Culture for 2023

Timişoara 2023 A six-hour-40-minute drive or three hour flight from Bucharest, the country’s third largest city, in the central west has some 306,000 and traces its origins to a settlement of the Indo-European Bronze-Age Dacian people who inhabited this area in the 8th-7th centuries BCE – although as it was founded in 1315 on the site of an ancient Roman fortress and surrounding swampland. Much more recently, this was the place where the popular revolt which eventually toppled the 24-year…

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Bucharest one of "10 of Europe's Cheapest Cities to Visit"

    The second smallest continent across the globe, Europe, is filled with scenic beauties. From eating fresh croissants in Paris to splurging on a water taxi in Venice. Europe has everything a traveler would want. You can experience all kinds of adventures here. Want to travel to Europe now? Many budget-friendly cities in Europe will allow you to enjoy Europe without burning a hole in your pocket. Read about these tickets before booking Direct flights to Germany from USA.   The first thing to…

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Writing 'In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey and Travel Guide'

My obsession to travel to every site related to either the fictional Count Dracula or his real historical counterpart, Prince Vlad Dracula the Impaler, grew out of a visit to Whitby, England, where part of the novel Dracula takes place.  I stood on the cemetery hill where, in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray spent hour after hour sitting on their "favourite seat" (a bench placed over a suicide's grave near the edge of the cliff), gazing out toward the "headland called…

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  • María José February 7, 2023 at 11:30am
    The traditional Romanian women's blouse, the "ia", was in December 2022 amongst the latest additions to UNESCO's Intangible World Heritage list, but its local manufacturers are under threat from cheap Chinese imports. Radio Free Europe recently covered the issue here: https://www.rferl.org/a/ia-blouse-romanian-traditional-clothing-une...
    Romania's Traditional Clothing Makers Call For Action After UNESCO Listing
    Producers of Romania and Moldova's traditional blouse, the ia, hope its recent addition to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage will boost c…
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