ABOUT ROMANIA
Foreign visitors consider Romanians to be the friendliest and most hospitable people on earth. Romanians are by nature fun loving, warm, playful, with a good sense of humor. Come and learn a little more about Romania!
Capital: Bucharest (Bucuresti)
Population: 21,150,000 (2008)
Official Language: Romanian
Ethnic Groups: Romanian 89%, Hungarian 7.5%, Gipsy 1.9%, German, Other 1.6%
Religions: Christian Orthodox 87%, Roman Catholic 5%, Protestant 5%, Jewish
TRY A FEW WORDS IN ROMANIAN LANGUAGE :
Buna seara - Good evening
Multumesc - thank you
Bun - delious
Va rog - please
Noroc - chears
Multumesc pentru masa - thank you for the meal
Ma numesc …. - my name it`s …...
Imi pare bine - nice to meet you
Pa pa - bye bye
La revedere - see you again
1.Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci is the most-famous Romanian sporting personality with her historic perfect score of 10 at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
2.The Palace of Parliament, located in Bucharest, ranks as the biggest office building in Europe and second-largest in the world, after the U.S. Pentagon?
3.Voronet Monastery, located in northeastern Romania, is also known as the ‘Sistine Chapel of the East’?
4. The insulin was discovered by a Romanian physiologist ?
Located in Sinaia near to the famous city Brasov , Peles Castle is considered by many one of the most beautiful castles in all of Europe. It was the final resting place for several Romanian monarchs including King Carol I, who died here in 1914. The castle was built in wood, stone, bricks and marble and comprises more than 160 rooms.

The wooden churches are a distinct feature of Maramures. The farmers woodcarving talent shows up in a display of beauty .
These churches are built in the 17th and 18th centuries without the help of any iron nails, yet reach impressive heights.
Here you will find the highest wooden building in Europe reaching 72 m
About 180km north-west of Brasov is the famous medieval city SIGHISOARA.
It is a place straight out of the pages of a fairytale - one of the best preserved mediaeval citadels in Eastern Europe
A magical mix of winding cobbled alleys, steep stairways, secluded squares, towers and turrets.
Sighisoara is one of the 7 fortified Saxon cities in Transylvania
The Danube Delta, is situated about 200 km north-easterly from Bukarest, on the Romanian Black Sea Coast and it`s the second longest river in europe.
The Danube Delta, which goes across over 4100 square kilometers was declared by UNESCO in 1991 to a world natural heritage.
Over than 320 bird species were observed here, among 180 species of breeding birds, about 1160 plants and over 50 fish species are to be found here.
If you don’t have time for a trip to Romania check this out :

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS
In “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” brilliantly directed movie alert the world to be insistently alive ? is embodied by a young university student who, one wintry day in the late 1980s, helps her roommate with an abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania when such procedures were illegal, not uncommon and too often fatal.
It’s a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting intellectual and aesthetic achievement.

GYPSY CARAVAN
This rich feature documentary celebrates the luscious music of top international Gypsy performers and interweaves stirring real life tales of their home life and social background. The movie takes place in Spain, Macedonia, Romania and India, as well as in Europe and in the USA . Starring famous musicians like Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haiduks, Maharaja, Antonio el Pipa and Esma Redzepova.