Other few reasons to visit romania

After few turists traveled to Romania on vacation, they were absolutely inspired by this country. This often-overlooked tourist destination is a hidden gem filled with beautiful forests, regal castles and epic mountains.

Owing to its rich medieval history, Romania is positively saturated with beautiful castles in various states of repair. The country also has a huge amount of undisturbed forest (and the largest population of brown bears in Europe), making it a great destination for nature lovers. With the Carpathian mountains running through the center of the country, the combination makes for some unforgettably memorable views.

If you're from Romania or if you've been there on vacation, we'd love to see your favorite  sights! 

 

Big waterfall

Romania has so many hidden wonderful places that are little known – even to Romanians. The news was about the Bigar waterfall located in the Caras-Severin County, which ranks first in a recent chart of unique waterfalls. This hidden place, somewhere on the road between the village of Oravita and the village of Bozovici, in the Anina mountains on the national road number 57 B, lies exactly on 45th parallel.

The Bigar waterfall is called  “the miracle from the Minis gorge” by the locals. The Bigar falls come from the Minis River and flow over an 8-meter wall of moss. The other name of the Bigar waterfall is Coronini, after the 19th century Banat region governor Johann Baptist Coronini-Cronberg. Many other attractions await the passionate traveler in the Bigar-Coronini waterfall area. The Minis gap is one of the most amazing locations in the Banat Mountains, as so are the pools in the Minis Valley, the Buhui Lake and the Buhui cave.

The Caras-Severin County is one of Romania’s richest areas for natural attractions and there are a lot of ways to spend healthy holidays there in the great outdoors. The Caras-Severin County is a historical area in the Banat region (one of the Romanian historical regions), located in the south western part of Romania at 453 kilometers from the capital Bucharest. It is the third largest county in our country and it is the entrance gate of the Danube to Romania. In this county, there are more than 52 protected natural areas, but the most famous are: Semenic National park, Cheile Nerei National park, Domogled national park and Portile de Fier National Park. Any of these marvelous natural places are great to visit in any season.

One of the most famous and oldest spa localities in Romania, called Baile Herculane, is also located in Caras-Severin County. Tourists can enjoy river rafting, canyoning, mountain climbing, waterfall descents, paintball, biking and motor biking, snowboarding, scientific tourism, spa tourism, hunting, fishing and railroad tourism on the oldest railroad in the country, the Anina-Oravita route. The climate in the area is the mildest of the entire country, temperate continental type with some sub Mediterranean characteristics as well as Adriatic climate. At the same time, the Caras-Severin County has an interesting population mixture where the Romanians, Serbians, Croatians, Hungarians, Germans, Roma and Ukrainians have been living in peace for centuries, everyone contributing to the history and the traditions of the region.

The Caras-Severin County is pretty much unknown to foreigners, so we’ll be discovering step by step the beauties of this hidden treasure of Romania

Romanian Tunnel Of Love

If you wonder where this is and what is it about this place that makes it so special, here are some information:

The railway that connects CaransebesshBoutzari-Subcetate is a secondary railway in Romania; it is simple and non electrified; the route between Caransebesh and Boutzari was inaugurated on the 11th of November 1908, while the one between Boutzari-Subcetate, on 1st of May 1909.

Due to the high slope declivities up to 50 mm/m on the route between Boutzari and Sarmizegetuza, the trains’ circulation was done on a rack-railway. Between 1908 and 1978 (year when the section Bouţari-Sarmizegetuza was closed to passenger trains) the train traction was made – for the entire distance- with steam engines.

In the year of 1995 the second railway section which connected Sarmisegetuza and Hatzeg was closed for passengers’ trains; following that, during the year of 2000, the railway between Boutari and Hateg was dismantled, and passed over under the SAAF administration.

 Nowadays  on the  railway  Caransebes-Boutzari are running passenger and  goods trains, and on the railway section  Hatzeg-Subcetate temporarily run only goods trains.

 The photographs you can see below have been made and published by the photographer Florin Avramescu, to demonstrate that this special place is located in Romania. On the internet are circulating photos with a similar location in Ukraine.

Transfaragasan,Transylvania

The Transfăgărășan  or DN7C, also known as Ceaușescu's Folly, is a paved mountain road crossing the southern section of the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. It has national-road ranking and is the second-highest paved road in the country after the Transalpina. It starts near the village of Bascov, near Pitești, and stretches 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the crossroad between the DN1 and Sibiu, between the highest peaks in the country, Moldoveanu and Negoiu. The road, built in the early 1970s as a strategic military route, connects the historic regions of Transylvania and Wallachia.

The Transfăgărășan was constructed between 1970 and 1974 during the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu as a response to the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union.Ceaușescu wanted to ensure quick military access across the mountains in case of a Soviet invasion. At the time, Romania already had several strategic mountain passes through the Southern Carpathians, whether inherited from the pre-communist era (the DN1 and the high-pass DN67C) or built during the initial years of the Communist regime (the DN66). These passes, however, were mainly through river valleys, and would be easy for the Soviets to block and attack. Ceauşescu therefore ordered the construction of a road across the Făgăraş Mountains, which divide northwestern and southern Romania.