Tourist in Romania (english)
20 Reasons to visit Romania!
In a world full of beauty and amazing attractions it’s sometimes hard to choose a new destination for your holiday. Some people will tell you that Romania is a small country from Eastern Europe, with a harsh heritage from the Communist era. But what you don’t know is that Romania is rising above its past and shines like a brilliant star on the constellation of Europe.
Here you will find tall mountains with breathtaking views, seashores with long, amazing beaches, small villages full of colors and welcoming people, beautiful churches and museums, elegant hotels, narrow streets with bars and restaurants for all tastes, culture and history, places where you can party all day and all night long, delicious food and inspiring folks who are ready to speak loud and proud about their country and about their big dreams.
And you know what: maybe it’s time to visit Romania!
Here are the reasons:
1. Iasi is a city full of grace and elegance. Visit the Palace of Culture and Panoramic Restaurant (Unirea Hotel) for a breathtaking view of the city.
2. Voronet Village is a pearl on the Romania’s crown.
3. Traditions, amazing food and people from Bucovina.
4. Maramures is a dreamy land. You can have an extraordinary ride with a vintage train, witnessing an enchanted scenery of mountains, forests and rivers. And you can visit the only Merry Cemetery in the entire world.
5. Player Club Bucharest, an amazing place where you can spend 24 hours: a day at the pool and a night to remember in the club, dancing with the most attractive Romanian people.
6. Wonderful beaches, clubs, hotels and wineyards along the Black Sea.
7. The churches.
8. Discover the Black Sea by means of a sailing vessel, at Limanu, Mangalia.
9. The Danube Delta, a land of miracles. One of the best places in the country.
10. The magical green hills and peaceful landscapes.
11. The Parliament House, the biggest building in Europe and second in the world.
12. Iacobeni, a small, secret village from Suceava that looks heavenly.
13. Boutique hotels with elegant design and impressive views, scattered all over the country.
14. The mountains, Balea Lake, Transfagarasan, Rodnei, Caraiman.
15. Museums, art, culture, theaters (in every big city), live concerts, events, conferences.
16. Orsova and the Danube River. The monastery of Saint Ana.
17. Turda Salt Mine.
18. Sibiu and Sighisoara, history, traditions, thin fresh air and wonderful stories.
19. Bran Castle or Dracula’s Castle. And many, many other castles, palaces and towers that will make you believe you are in a movie.
20. Amazing cities with 5 stars hotels and beautiful stories: Cluj, Timisoara, Brasov, Constanta.
There are thousands of reasons to visit Romania. These are just memories from my travels and the places I vouch for any time.
Sourse and photo: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1256857
This weekend the famous Cantacuzino estate located in Floresti – Prahova County will host the Karpatia Horse Trials, an international equestrian event now at its second edition.
Photo credit: Karpatia Horse Trials facebook page
For three days, the grounds of the Cantacuzino estate will provide the lively, elegant and smartly-fitted setting for horsemanship afficionados and lovers of Romania’s aristocracy history, featuring in the program the Concours Complet International (CCI 3 *), as well as related events, such as a hound parade and an exhibition of vintage cars, informs a release to AGERPRES.
”The extraordinary success enjoyed by the 2014 edition of the Karpatia Horse Trials was an encouragement to all those involved to further develop this wonderful project. This year will witness several firsts in the Romanian equestrian events: the CCI 3 * — the qualifiers for the Olympic Games, and foreign competitors who have never before come to Romania with their own horses. They will travel for days to get to Floresti, coming from as far as the UK, India, Belgium or Spain. We are thrilled by this attendance that is probably unique in the history of Romanian equitation, but at the same time, we are aware of the responsibility we have towards these competitors. One cannot afford not to be a good host, when your guests travel such a long way to get to Romania,” said event director Mihnea Virgolici.
”As for the cross-country track I can say without exaggeration that we are on equal standing with any other top event from elsewhere in the world. For this edition we built particularly spectacular elements that will keep the spectators on the edge. We worked hard to prepare this cocktail of sport-entertainment-show-emotions-adrenaline and we are sure that all those in attendance will be delighted with what they’ll find here,” the director added.
Access to the event is free on October 9 and 10, and on October 11 it will be by ticket or subscription that can be purchased at the entrance or online on the www.bilete.ro website and the bilete.ro points of sale. Children aged less than 10 have free access, accompanied by an adult.
Subscriptions and tickets can be purchased until October 8 for 25 lei a subscription and 15 lei a day ticket. Tickets purchased after October 9 cost 20 lei and a subscription is 35 lei. AGERPRES
In the book “the appliance of Uriel”, two British researchers have pieced “Heavenly computer” from the book of Enoh and solar calendar were obtained from History.
“The appliance of Uriel” Sarmisegetusa was more mobile, with wooden elements
Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas followed exactly the instructions “are being told when cerestri’s book” the antediluvian patriarch Enoh.
“Book of the heavenly are being told when” his teachings on Enoh including Angels we have left some people, elected by them, in order to measure the “routes are being told when and the relations between them, According to their classes, and the season (…) and their laws “.
A “way in but” the …
“Uriel’s Machine”, by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, sactuarele reconstructs circular astrological and astronomical role
It’s about an astronomical calculation, a calendar (“but the path”), whose elements were “poles, portals and Windows “, arranged in concentric circles, with a “Horseshoe” in 21 the pillars in the Centre-the place of observation. It is studied with the help of the Sun and Moon moves, eclipses of the Sun and the Moon, Lunar node positions, the change in the Solstice and echinoctiu ….. According to “the book of Enoh”, the Angel Uriel Patriarch gave the secret of building this device, whose elements differed from area to area, Depending on the latitude at which the measurements were made. The “device of Uriel” depended on agriculture, so sedentary life and developing societies. Who were these “messengers of God”?
… the date of God’s messengers
Knight and Lomas followed indications from Enoh’s book and it came out the timing of Sarmisegetusa
The mysterious “book of Enoh” was never included in the religious teachings for people, on the grounds that she could not have understood the human mind. In it are described the facts “Angels”, or “messengers of God”, some very special beings, very high, who have violated many divine commandments, and even have taken soate pamantence, the deed for which have not been forgiven, especially when their children were born Giants. This is also the only remaining reference to them in the books of the Old Testament. “There were Giants in the Earth in those days, After you have impreunat the sons of God with the daughters of men, and they were born they children; they were uriasii that were in the old “. From the “Dictionary of General mythology” of V. Kernbach, We learn that Enoh was a Patriarch who lived before the flood. He was liking the “messengers of God”, they took with them 200 of years, during which time they have learned all the secrets of the Earth and the sky, that put him to write them, to let the inheritance of humanity.
Consultant with pamantencele messengers
Stone circles at Avebury are older than those at Stonehenge
Enoh left written testimony as messengers of God on Earth were 200 and they had 18 bosses, and he drove everyone’s used to be called Samiza. We quote a few paragraphs from the translation of Kernbach :
‘ (1). When people have multiplied in those days, they started as their daughters to be born beautiful and graceful;
2. And when the angels, children of heaven, they have seen, They told some others: Let us choose between the women and men to have children with each other;
3. Then Samiza, their boss, told them: I am afraid much as you will not reach your goal;
4. And if you do so, I’m afraid that I will support your crime punishment alone;
5. But they vowed that he will give up;
6. And they swore to each other with mutual curses (…)
10. And they chose each cite a woman and came and lived with them and they have learned magic, all incantarile and roots of trees and properties;
11. And these women remained heavy and mosquitoes are born “.
Further, It tells how the messengers of God had taught their sons all the mysteries of heaven and Earth, “and this was in heaven and they have spotted its reputation”, bringing upon themselves and divine mania progeniturilor.
Teaching for people
It can be assumed that Enoch was the son of a “Messenger”, This would explain why it has enjoyed sympathy and especially why it was so long-lived. “The messengers” took him on trips for 200 of years, some space, so far, that “Earth is no no longer see a darkness reigned fully” (“Book of Enoch”, After V. Kernbach ). They took him in a distant land, where Uriel and others have tried to make him understand how to build the “computer” astronomical, researched in detail of the British Knight and Lomas. Then, they put it in writing- 366 of manuscripts, one year-all that aratasera and invatasera, then left him a year among his, to give instruction in reading work, then they took it with them.
The secret place where she was trained as Enoch
Enoch was carried away by the angels into a secret place, where the Angel Uriel i showed a “camera” with which they could measure “are being told when their routes laws”, as well as “what happens in all the years of the world until it is over the new creation”. Restoring your device of Uriel, “book of Enoch”, Knight and Lomas and realized as it corresponds to megalitilor of Stonehenge and concluded that there, in Salisbury Plain, the observer they were re-organizing their angels and there had been led Enoch. As an antediluvian patriarch Enoch, times Stonehenge is older than historians say (3.000 – 1.600 i. C), or not there was! But the two Britons may lose sight of a location element from the story of the Patriarch: “West, they pick up a Mountain large and stately, Sherry “! What is not at Stonehenge! More interesting than the location of the initiation is the “computer” pieced them and included in their book “the appliance of Uriel”. It looks exactly like … the sanctuary of Sarmisegetuza, to be more precise,”solar calendar”, with his orientation observation direction N-S and E-w and the calculation of the year close! Paul Lacey Kunwar, in “the impact of Rome over the Dacians”, He wrote that “the Dacians knew and used a solar calendar that is considered the most accurate of antiquity. Dacic had year 365,242197 days, girl 365,242198 reached by modern astronomy. History of the Dacian calendar allowed a year counting days using poles willing in the shape of a circle, as they walked out of his Knight and Lomas. But, the megalithic complex of Stonehenge have an error “the device of Uriel”: comes with year 366 days! So, the model had to be sought from other latitude! Unlike “year megalithic, dacic was amazing year of precisely, rather, it will look to be inspired by “the appliance of Uriel”.
Astronomical and astrological knowledge of Dacians
Sanctuary of Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, It is the oldest solar sanctuary, with 7000 years older than Stonehenge
Jordanes, that i knew the Gauls through sec.VI CE, record as: “during the great priest Deceneu, the Dacians knew theory 12 zodiac signs, How do I grow and lowers the orbit of the Moon, the Golden Globe of the Sun surpasses the earthly globe, under what name and under what the signs 346 Star pass from sunrise to sunset, eclipses, rotation of the sky, predetermined rules of heavenly bodies moving … “. I Mean, exactly why do you and Angel had taught Enoch Uriel. Nicolae Popa, a comparative analysis on the author of the History and of Stonehenge, He noted that both avenues are shrines are similar. The centerline of the hearth fire that sectioneaza divides the outer circle into two equal halves from the point of view of the positions of masts.: twice 34 of positions. Horseshoes, at Stonehenge, and History,presents a number of identical positions: 21. The arrangement of groups of positions lespezilor River which sustain the pillars is identical. Nicolae Popa believes that both monuments belong to the same cultural and religious tradition of some Neolithic populations and have served both to measure time, and a ritualistic destination. Construction of Sarmisegetuza would prove in addition, front of the Stonehenge, a high degree of perfection in terms of accuracy of time calculation. The “Heavenly computer” on which the Angel Uriel showed him of Enoch is found in all the sanctuaries of Dacians. Maybe in the mountains of Dacia was held initiating the antediluvian patriarch. In addition, the sanctuaries are attributed by historians of the Getae and masagetilor. By foreign scholars, as local and not award anything, than, can, “cheese”, “the Lamb”, “ied” … Circular sanctuaries abound in Romania, Adamclisi, Sara, The Citadel, Racos- 3sanctuaries, and, the last discovered ( in April 2005), from Holland Park, Black Church Hill.Indeed, good place! This sanctuary is much larger and, It seems, more complex than that of History.
Good place, the parallel 45!
“The apparatus of the Angels” in the territory of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were periods in stone, as they remain standing for posterity. Of the Dacians were more “flexible”, with wooden poles for the variable elements of the “computer” and those of andesite fixed. It can be concluded that the Dacians very well mastered priests technique in the construction of these devices “with circular pillars, portals and Windows “. I helped calculations and “good” that they chose, close to the parallel 45, and at the 45 degrees, any formula for calculating astronomical simplify because the tangent and cotangent of latitude equals 1 and replace, and the sine and cosine are radical 2 on 2 and, as, replace. In other words, not scranteau minds in calculations!That’s why the “path” was so accurate, while others, having the same astronomical model, failed to reach the precision “Dacian year”.
Astrological predictions
Sanctuary of Stonehenge has the same constituents as the History, only it’s more massive
As astronomers have observed the British tied to complex of Stonehenge, both the large Sanctuary History, and the other found so far, not only have the exact orientation North-South and East-West, but I am so aligned, order of the rising sun’s rays that pass through from an il end to the other in just one day per year, on 22 December, When the Sun is declinatia maxima and start Winter charge. At that time, the entire globe where performance is the Sun and Moon cults, ceremonies were taking place of fire, as the Sun not to “freeze” or go away. On this occasion were made and general forecasts. It has been found at Dacian sanctuaries the positioning of “Monthly nodes”, points that have great meaning for astrologers. Their inclusion in the “appliances” of Uriel was justified by the fact that the “theirs” i have taught their sons how to predict “what happens in all the years”, in zodiac. All astrologers that respects tin cont de “Monthly nodes”, because the South Node shows the baggage with which we are born, While the North node is in the way that a man has to go. From the perspective of geocentrica, The monthly result nodes directly from Sun and Moon moves around the Earth, that influence the size of the spiritual life. The Sun symbolizes the spirit of,masculinity, action. The Moon is an exponent of the soul, femininity, receptivitatii.
Source: suprisingromania
THE GIST:
– Dwarf dinosaurs existed on a Late Cretaceous island, a new analysis of bones confirms.
– Dwarf dinosaurs appear to have emerged from a process called progenesis, which shortens the developmental period.
– The dwarf dinosaurs lived fast, reaching sexual maturity at earlier ages than their mainland counterparts, and they likely died young.
A new study not only confirms the existence of dwarf dinosaurs, but also explains how dinosaurs shrank during the Late Cretaceous at a Neverland-like place — Hateg Island, Romania — where dinos never really grew up.
According to the study, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, the unusual phenomenon appears to have only affected some of the island’s dinosaur residents.
Benton, who directs the Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research Group at the University of Bristol, and his colleagues conducted one of the most extensive studies yet on the Hateg Island dinosaur remains. They analyzed the dinosaurs’ limb proportions and bone growth patterns, comparing them with those of mainland dinos.
The analysis determined that at least four of the Hateg dinosaurs were dwarves.
The diminutive dinosaurs included the titanosaurian sauropodMagyarosaurus, which had a body length of about 16 to 19 feet. That’s impressive by human standards, but is miniature compared to a sauropod such as Argentinosaurus, which grew to be at least 82 feet long.
Another small dinosaur was the hadrosaurid Telmatosaurus. Its 13-foot-long body contrasted with the average size of other hadrosaurids, which were 23 to 33 feet long, according to Benton.
Two species of Zalmoxes dinosaurs also appear to have been dwarves, with one — Zalmoxes robustus — measuring about 10 feet in length.
“So these forms are all typically half the length of their close relatives on larger land masses, and this equates to a body mass of perhaps one-eighth that of the relatives,” said Benton. “Body mass is what matters most in biological terms, such as physiology and food intake.”
Magnified sections of the dinosaurs’ bones revealed that the animals were adults and not juveniles. The scientists believe the dinosaurs likely shrank due to a process called progenesis, which shortens the developmental period. Sexual maturity happened early, and these dinosaurs may have also died two to five years younger than their “normal”-sized counterparts.
“This in-depth study by Benton and colleagues is both fascinating and provocative,” paleontologist Scott Sampson, a research curator at the Utah Museum of Natural History, told Discovery News, “demonstrating that the largest group of animals ever to walk the earth included dwarfed varieties.”
Sampson added that the study also supports “the more general ‘island rule’– the idea that, when marooned on islands, evolution tends to make large animals smaller, and small animals larger.”
Scientists continue to debate why this happens on islands. Reduced supplies of food, smaller ranges, and few larger predators have all been theorized.
“I think most biologists accept that there is something going on, and that the island rule has validity,” Benton said.
sources: new discovery
Brașov is located in the central part of the country, about 166 kilometres (103 miles) north of Bucharest and 380 km (236 mi) from the Black Sea. It is surrounded by the Southern Carpathians and is part of the Transylvania region.
With its central location, Brașov is a suitable location from which to explore Romania, and the distances to several tourist destinations (including the Black Sea resorts, the monasteries in northern Moldavia, and the wooden churches of Maramureș) are similar. It is also the largest city in a mountain resorts area. The old city is very well preserved and is best seen by taking the cable-car to the top of Tâmpa Mountain.
The world’s allegedly biggest pretzel, dubbed the Giants’ Food, was baked on Sunday at the 23 Medieval Sighisoara Festival in Transylvania. Organizers are going to submit a homologation request to the Guinness Book.
A huge baking plate held 100 kilograms of dough over a wood fire, as the attendance cheered, “Giants, may your hunger be appeased!” Alas, the baker — Dionisie Pajin of Sighisoara — warned that the pretzel would be inevitably white on top, as it was not baked in an oven and the sun cannot produce a brown crust.
Nevertheless, the resulting pretzel, bagel or whatever one might call it had 20 metres in diameter, or a linear length of 64 metres. It required a custom-made baking plate made of steel sheet in Targu Mures, the county seat. AGERPRES
The 4.53 metres long ‘Titans’ Sword’ forged at the 23rd Medieval Sighisoara Festival was set into a rock on Sunday, awaiting the eventual registration by the Guinness Book.
“Knights! Today good God’s great will was done in Medieval Sighisoara. We, the Order of the Wolf Knights, recognized by God’s will; we, the Knights of the Order of Medias; we, Argotica of Sibiu; we, the Carpathian Knights; we, the Esquires of Muhlbach; we, the Commanderies of the Templars of St Bernard of Sighisoara, Targu Mures, Ardud and Bucharest praise the God’s great will. The Scena Theatre and the Order of the Wolf Knights wanted to bring to you — knights and tourists — and to the Medieval Sighisoara Festival the first Romanian Excalibur. Knights, three ‘Vivat!’,” called Liviu Pancu, the art director of the festival.
It was for the technical director Dan Gliga, however, to explain the technological feat of a team of three craftsmen: a 4.53 metres long, 20 centimeters wide, 2 centimeters thick blade made of three layers of steel band, with copper coats of arms, two wolf heads on the hilt, weighing 135 kilograms.
The knights ‘stuck’ it into a 1.8 tonnes rock brought from a distant quarry and prepared by inserting and gluing in place a sheath into a 50-centimetre long bore, leaving only a slot apparent, where the sword was inserted. AGERPRES
The lamb meat dishes cannot miss from the Romanians’ table at Easter time, be it sour soup, haggis, stew or steak, the preparation, however, varying from area to area.
Photo credit: (c) Nicolae BADEA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE
Cosmin Toma, a chef from Alba Iulia, over the years picked several traditional recipes from the cuisine of the peasants living in the Apuseni or the Sebes Mountains, recipes which he collected in a cook book, called “Culinary journey in Alba County.” Among these recipes there are some cooked on the occasion of the Easter holiday.
* The lamb head sour soup recipe requires four litres of water, a lamb head, one and a half kg of lamb legs, 100 grams of carrots, parsley root and white onion, 50 grams of wheat, 400 millilitres of bortsch, 100 grams of sour cream, 20 grams of green lovage, 50 milliliters of oil, one egg and 30 grams of salt.
“The leg bones, together with the lamb head, are put to boil, with the foam cleared during boiling so the lamb sour soup be clear. When there is no brownish foam over the water, the carrots, the parsley rood and the onion are added, after having been previously fried in oil. All ingredients are left to boil for one hour, then the wheat and the bortsch are added, and everything is left to boil for 20 more minutes. Meanwhile, the lovage is finely cut and added to the sour soup. After boiling, the soup is left to cool for five minutes and the sour cream whipped with the egg, mixed with some soup, are added over the entire mixture,” Cosmin Toma describes the preparation of this sour soup.
* In Sebes Mountains, an area where sheep breeding is among the main occupations of the locals, the housewives know how to prepare several dishes based on lamb or kid meat. Such a recipe, a dish never missing from the Easter menu, is “gusita” [haggis]. To prepare it, the ingredients are lamb organs (liver, spleen, heart, kidney) and peritoneum, as well as 500 grams of green onion, 300 grams of green parsley, 200 grams of smoked pork bacon, 50 grams of pork fat, 30 eggs, 50 grams of pepper and 50 grams of salt.
“The lamb organs are boiled, collecting the foam from time to time. After boiling, they are placed on a tray and left to cool, then they are minced, together with the green onion, the green parsley, the smoked pork bacon and ten boiled eggs. The mixture is mixed with other ten raw eggs, salt and pepper, and is kneaded until it becomes a paste. A 7-10 cm deep tray is anointed with pork fat and the peritoneum is placed on the bottom, after which the mixture is poured on it. The other eggs are boiled, left to cool, then cut in four pieces and placed over the mixture, at a 2-3 cm distance from each other. When ready, the mixture is covered with the sides of the peritoneum and baked in the hot oven for 90 minutes,” chef Cosmin Toma explains the preparation manner for the haggis in Sebes Mountains.
* Another recipe picked by Toma from the villages of the Sebes Mountains is the lamb steak, needing four kilograms of lamb leg, 200 grams of white onion, 100 grams of garlic, 300 millilitres of white wine, 50 grams of pork fat and 20 grams each of paprika, salt and pepper.
“The meat cut in pieces and held over night in salt, pepper and paprika is placed in a deep tray, rubbed with pork fat. Then the round cut onion, the finely chopped garlic and the white wine are added. The steak is cooked in the hot oven for two or three hours, depending on how crunchy people want to make the steak,” Cosmin Toma says.
Cosmin Toma is the author of six cook books, among which the biggest cook book, measuring one metre in height and 70 centimetres width, enclosing over 200 recipes and over 100 photographs. The tome “Toma’s cooking workshop,” including both traditional and high class recipes, also belonging to other chefs, will be also printed in a standard format, the author hopes.
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