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Romania-a great place to visit!

Romania is a small,but yet great country in the South East of Europe.Though my country is supposed to be in recession I would neverleave it for good.I have been to England and Italy and even if I had a blast there,I couldn't wait to come home to smell the scent of grass and wind and spring that is more obvious here than anywhere else.

Situated at a crossroads of civilizations, graced with a harmoniously distributed relief, Romania brought an original touch in the concert of universal history and culture, attesting to a tormented but not less glorious past. The history of the Romanians is, undoubtedly, part of the European history, perhabs one of the most eventful. the Romanians are the sole descendants of the Eastern Roman world, and their language, along with Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian, is one of the major of-spring of Latin. They are the sole people who by their name - roman (deriving from the Latin romanus) have preserved to this day the memory of the Seal of Rome, a memory to be perpetuted later in the name adopted by the nation State Romania. It is a Romance isle that has endured in a sea of Slavic and Finno-Ugric neighbours, in a region that had been devastated for more than a millennium by all the migratory waves known by Europe.
Christians of Orthodox rite, the Romanians lived from the Middle Ages to the modern times in three neighbouring self-dependent principalities: Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania.
Later on, in spite of the hostility and open opposition of the same great and powerful neighbours, they managed to achieve national unity in 1859, a process eventually completed in 1918. At the end of World War I, the centuries-old dream of reunification of all the Romanians within the boundaries of one single nation-state came true, paid with the sacrifice of over 800,000 lives. The ensuring two decades of economic, political and cultural advance are cut short soon after the outbreak of World War II, in 1940, when one third of the country's area and population is amputated. In 1945, after 4 years of war which left another 700,000 people dead, the nearly one-century long democratic traditions (with all the inherent imperfections) are cut short by Soviet troops and the forcible imposition of the communist regime.

That devastating dictatorial rule is brought to an end by the people's revolt of December 1989, which closes the historical gap Romania lived in for 45 years and opened a new page in Romania's contemporary history. Conditions were created for a final breakaway from the communist regime and paved the way for the restoration of democracy based on the multi-party system and a market economy. The adoption of the new Constitution on 21 November 1991, the free parliamentary and presidential elections of May 1990 and September 1992 were as many steps on the path to the irreversible breakaway from the totalitarian past.

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Tourism in Romania

The main tourist spots in Romania are: the Capital (Bucharest), the Black Sea coast with its belt of resorts (Mamaia, Eforie Nord, Neptun etc.), the Danube Delta, the Carpati Mountains, specially the Prahova Valley and Poiana Brasov (the most frequented mountain zone), Bucovina (in the north of Moldavia) with the famous monasteries and churches with outer frescoes dating back to the 16th century and declared UNESCO patrimony, Maramures, the Southern part of Transylvania, including the Hateg land and the surrounding zone (the cradle of the Dacian kingdom, and later on of the Roman province of Dacia) and Nothern Oltenia.

Besides these well-defined tourist areas, in Romania there are many other tourist centres, towns and spas. They include Iasi (the former capital of Moldavia), Cluj-Napoca (the main town of mediaeval Transylvania), Timisoara (the multiethnic and multicultural metropolis of the Banat), Tārgoviste (the princely residence of Wallachia, before Bucharest replaced it), Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara etc.
The Danube riverside with the Iron Gates Straits, the Fagaras Massif (with the most spectacular alpine relief in Romania) or the Retezat National Park in the Southern Carpathians amaze visitors by their matchless beauty.

Some historical sites and their natural environments proved to be very attractive for foreign tourists by the popular legends related to them(e.g.Dracula's story)