Transylvania, Danube Delta, Black Sea, Wallachia
After visiting the Maramures and Bucovina, we passed through the gorges and the lake
Bicaz red, coming in
Piatra Neamt, a beautiful modern city with the river and a beautiful garden square and raised a small town, pedestrian, with an interesting church buildings and some finely crafted.
You get past the Red Lake in
Transylvania, we passed Gheorgheni, but with a cittàinsignificante previous path of the woods and turns apprezzevoli.
In
Transylvania Ecom a basin, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, we visited three medieval towns and historic, very beautiful:
Sighisoara, the piùpiccola and romantic, the famous birthplace of Vlad Tepes or Dracula. In its native home have made a nice restaurant, but rather expensive.
The Citadel is going to go up stairs and doors of the old ancient city walls to arrive at the clock tower very beautiful and impressive. Around there is a church with a huge roof, several squares, hotels and restaurants.
On top of a wooden ladder and closed ancient church is another important museum and a German cemetery.
Below the city with various pastel-colored houses, considered a historic monument, and interesting old buildings with walls, a beautiful garden park, the river and the Orthodox Church aldilàuna round white domes.
From west to
Sibiu Sighisoara, we stopped to admire that
Medias Evere a town gem, with its beautiful piazza occupied mainly by a beautifully landscaped garden and an ancient church and fortified.
Here we are in fact fortified churches in the area that is surrounded by high walls for protection such as imposing a fine paesone
Biertan standing next to houses with low roofs and huge featured.
Sibiu instead of about 200,000 inhabitants anda cittàelegante with a square surrounded by great many beautiful buildings and a pedestrian street full of bars and restaurants at. In 2007 was the city of European culture and I think that it goes back to those years, the beautifully executed restoration of the historic center.
There is also a building that contains one of Bruckenthal gives the most important art galleries in the country and it deserves a visit.
There are the ancient walls with a walk and the towers of the corporations in which it was once divided the city.
Brasov, the old Saxon Kronstadt (these towns were in fact founded by the Saxons called by the locals to defend against the Turks) is the largest of these and in my opinion the city Piubello
Romania.
It looks German, neat and clean, with the usual lovely piazza with a fountain, the Church Negra, and many beautiful buildings. Here too wide pedestrian area, high walls and a green mountain with
Brasov written in large letters at the top, Hollywood-style.
There is a road Narrowest of the world for those not familiar with the Venetian streets and many parks and manicured gardens. Around the beautiful city hall there are the graves of a dozen Romanians martyrs who fell during the 1989 revolution that portòalla fall of the Ceausescu regime and a monument fon perpetual flame that burns in memory of the fallen.
The square was crowded, with stage and Jazz festival, while that of
Sibiu was the theater festival complete with a parade of young artists in colorful carnival costumes and the local band.
In
Cluj Napoca instead was the film festival and other festivals in another square in
Bucharest, in short, the cultural life of the Romanians èsempre very active and involves them in ongoing events involving locals and tourists passing through.
Finally the TRANSFARAGARASAN a particular street, that is a road that crosses the mountains and Faragarasan that communicates with the underly
Transylvania Wallachia.
This road was built by the communist regime wanted and at great expense and many human sacrifices. It seems that many were forced to work on political prisoners.
E 'spectacular .... and dangerous in the sense that we have met many huge stones fell from the mountains, there are the usual craters of Maramures to watch and at some point you meet the snow, swept to the edges. You can barely move, hoping to meet someone in the opposite direction, before reaching the lake ice above and to the shelter.
The day after our passage, rough and reckless, summer car buried by an avalanche that had fallen due to the significant increase in the temperature of those days.
We went well but it was better to avoid that danger.
Cause no-directions which are sometimes just a sentence for the passenger and the navigator hired, but that did not work for electrical problems, we missed the street's famous castle of Vlad Tepes who has nothing to do with Dracula but which takes its name from a local stream, eponymous hero of
Romania. We'll make later than the end of the trip when we return in the area.
Meanwhile, we did not lose the Bran Castle which is believed to Dracula, but in fact it was his father, Vlad Tepes passòsolo few months there as a child and became the summer residence of the monarchs newer Romanians.
It 'a fairly high castle and white with a small inner courtyard and well, with modest furniture and recently, not at all impressive and beautiful as some would have you believe.
It seems that the real Dracula's Castle is to POIANIRI Wallachia in the ruins of which are on top of a mountain that is reached by climbing around 1,500 steps that we have avoided the hot and muggy that we found along the famous Transfagarasan in Wallachia in the opposite direction from South to North after risking their lives in the opposite treatment.
For the record in that area there is a massive dam that gave rise to a huge artificial lake and spectacular.
From
Brasov we head towards
Ploiesti, an industrial city north of
Bucharest and from there via Buzau and Braila come to GAL pronounced Galaz.
The journey of 4-5 hours was easy because the traffic was limited, good roads, surrounded by endless campaigns long straightness of grain, hemp, tobacco and interspersed with red poppies and other flowers purple.
In Galatians we take a ferry that allows us to cross the Danube and landed on the other side we get to the town in
Tulcea quick reference for the visit to the Delta.
There is a real river port with many yachts and ferry boats that organize tours in the delta, but we continued to
Mughiroi a small village where we stayed in the bungalows of the campsite Iulian, boy who took us around with his boat through the channels of the Delta.
It 'was a great half day trip during which we admired the various banks of canals and lakes surrounded by green trees growing in water, lotus flowers, many birds, but also fishermen's cottages, houses and boarding houses.
It was worth coming here to admire one of the last havens even if Ceasescu with his insane policy did his best to destroy this paradise and succeeded in diverting the migration of birds that are now only half a million and amounted to the first well-twelve million !
Back in
Tulcea we were disappointed for not going to Sfanta Gheorghe, on the coast in what is a beautiful place with natural beach, but you have to be right in the days of the ferry that goes from
Tulcea every other day in day out and we were in the course wrong day.
From
Tulcea continue south and arrive at
Histria, the oldest Greek colony in
Romania. A nice surprise for me as Istrian!
And 'the Pompeii of
Romania with the fairly well-preserved remains of the walls surrounding a large lake and a beautiful museum that preserves the best finds.
It 's time to bathe and rest after thousands