-RUMANIA- 'Transilvania, los Cárpatos, Moldavia, Bucovina y las Ciudades Fortaleza'
near Sărindăreanca, Județul Ilfov (România)
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Romania, crossroads of Western, Byzantine and Eastern influences. A country rich in history and also with a troubled past.
The Romanian culture, the language, are a mixture of the Mediterranean and the Eastern world, Russian and Turkish
From Bucharest we will head to Brasov, a city founded by Saxon settlers. We will enter the mountains of the Carpathians, we will know Bran and the misty hills where Count Dracula's castle stands. Going down to the plains, cities like Sighisoara await us. At the foot of the Făgăraș mountains we will visit Sibiu, one of the fortified cities of Transylvania.
We go into Moldavia and Bucovina, a region full of Orthodox Monasteries, many of them declared World Heritage Sites.
A country of legends and myths like the hackneyed Count Dracula and much more recent events that have shaken European history, but above all with an extraordinary variety of landscapes.
Waypoints
Aetopuerto OTP de Bucarest
Museo de la Aldea.
Village Museum located outdoors in the Herăstrău Park, where we will immerse ourselves, taking a pleasant walk, through the culture and traditions of the Romanian people, through its traditional architecture. It is one of the first ethnographic museums in the world and the second in the open air after Stockholm. With an area of one hundred thousand square meters, made up of some 340 buildings, including houses, farms, churches and mills, as well as some 50,000 everyday objects that perfectly recreate Romanian villages from different regions, so that when you go through it, you travel through all of Romania, a good introduction into the traditions and cultures of this fascinating country.
Catedral ortodoxa
Atravesando los Carpatos
Bram 'castillo del conde dracula'
One of its main attractions is visiting the castle, the museum of popular architecture and the market for handicrafts. The castle, built in the 13th century by the religious order of the Teutonic Knights who came from Palestine, to protect the southeastern border of Transylvania from the attack of Cumans and Patzinaks originating from the Central Asian steppes, is presented as the castle of Count Dracula. It is thought that Vlad Tepes himself, the former prince of Wallachia, was in his dungeons where he spent a few days in prison on his way to prison in Budapest. However, its spectacular location and imposing architecture could well have inspired Bram Stoker to describe the environments of his famous novel. Located in a magnificent setting, the castle is the prototype of the medieval fortress of Transylvania. Lastly, it was the summer residence of the last kings of Romania. From its high towers we can see a magnificent landscape while dreaming of the legend...
Brasov
This is one of the oldest cities in Transylvania, founded by the Saxon Germans in the Middle Ages, having from its origins a great commercial activity as it was the common point of three States: Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania. Its historic center is cute and small. The city surprises with its careful architecture where fortunately the abstraction of the so-called "progressive architecture" of the communist regime of Ceaușescu did not arrive. The buildings and urbanism of the old town have been quite well preserved. In addition to the architecture, the atmosphere of the city is unique: surrounded by forests, large squares with lively terraces such as Sfatului Square, pedestrian streets, breweries, beautiful cafes such as "La Cafeteca" where we encourage you to have a coffee from the many that have a pleasant atmosphere and good music... Other places of interest are: Old Town Hall, the pedestrian Republicii street, the Orthodox Cathedral, the Municipal Museum...
Campulung
In the valley of Moldavia, at the foot of the Rarău mountains is Câmpulung Moldovanesc. The city is in the so-called "land of bison" where the voivode Dragos founded his kingdom in the 14th century. Area of extensive forests has the Museum of Wood and the curious Museum of the Spoon. It is an ideal place in the heart of the Monasteries region.
Por el paso del borgo
Bistrita
Bistrița, where the aforementioned novelist Bram Stoker narrates some chapters of his famous novel about Dracula: "Before me," says the protagonist Harker, "was an old gentleman, freshly shaven, except for his whitish mustache, dressed in black from head to toe, not the slightest shade of color anywhere. He held in his hand an ancient silver lamp whose flame burned without any protective glass screen, flickering in the draft and casting long, flickering shadows around it. It is another medieval city with a small historic quarter,
Sighisoara
monumental and walled medieval city. Surely from this afternoon we can begin to enjoy the magical corners of this legendary city. Numerous lively terraces in summer, little bars with excellent wines, restaurants with traditional cuisine... one of the most charming cities in Transylvania, together with Brașov and Sibiu. Of Roman origin in the 12th century it was occupied by the Saxons who baptized it with the name of Schöessburg. The medieval city consists of two well-differentiated areas: the lower and the upper. From the first one you pass to the second through a neighborhood that stretches along the slope of the mountain, on the top of which stood the village with sumptuous buildings, towers and defense walls. Walking through the citadel is like going back to the Middle Ages: towers, bastions, walls. The Clock Tower, the Town Hall, the Orthodox Cathedral, the Sighișoara Towers…
Biertran
another of the interesting towns in the area. Archetype of the Saxon way of life, this small town of 3,000 inhabitants shows us the way of life of this historic town that occupied a good part of Transylvana as a human shield against invasions from the East. With its fortified church (S XIV) on the UNESCO list and the bucolic rural landscape that surrounds us, it will not take us long to understand the reason for the Saxon roots in these lands.
Sibiu
Sibiu is among the Romanian cities that best preserve their medieval architecture. In 2007 it was the European Capital of Culture, which meant that a large part of the city was renovated and rehabilitated. Sibiu is divided between the "upper city" located on the hill and the "lower city". It is advisable to stop at the Plaza Mayor and visit one of the many art galleries, the Bruckenthal Museum, get lost in the labyrinth of stepped streets flanked by old wooden houses, drink beer on a terrace or in its hundred-year-old cellars... or enjoy a a cafe with rich cakes and chocolates in beautiful “cafés” like the “Café Wien”. Other places with greater interest in the old city are the Evangelical Church and the Orthodox Cathedral, the Passage of the Stairs and the well-preserved walls and bastions. Sibiu was one of the best fortified cities in Transylvania, a set of towers and turrets transports us to another era. From the top of the towers we will see in the background the mountains of the Western Carpathians, the so-called Făgăraș mountains.
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Hola Carmen. Soy Paco (compañero de viaje) Gracias por compartir la ruta ☺️
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