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Hunting Manor in Miclosoara, Transylvania

February 3rd 2007 06:10

Every once in a while I amaze myself with how much I don’t know about my country. What is even more amazing is that some truly appealing travel destinations are never promoted. Thus, lots of Romanians don’t know about them. So it took a visit to CNN’s Travel Section to see this:

“There is only one count in this remote Transylvanian village of 512 souls nestled in the wilds of the Carpathian Mountains -- and it isn't Count Dracula.
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Kiz Kulesi

October 16th 2006 10:17

K is not the type of guy that calls several times a day to talk to me. He’s quite the opposite, I am the one who needs to hear him more. Therefore, I was quite surprised when he called, the second time that day. I picked up the phone thinking there’s something important for me to know.

It was, in a way. He told me to change channels and watch AXN. It was the Amazing Race and the teams were going to Istanbul. More than that, they were going to a specific place where we had been together: Kiz Kulesi or Maiden’s Tower. Dating back from 341 BC, in 410 BC it became a customs area on the Bosphorous, but the tower on this structure was built only in 1110. In 1719 it was burnt down by a fire and then repaired in 1725

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Himalayan Journal

September 26th 2006 10:34

The online edition of the Evenimantul Zilei daily newspaper will host climber Constantin Lacatusu’s blog. The new featured blog will describe his ongoing expedition in the Himalayas.

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Bucharest, Happy Anniversary

September 22nd 2006 07:26

Capital of the Walachian and Moldavian region united under the name of the Romanian state since 1862, Bucharest celebrates for three days 547 from its first mentioning in an official document.

Vlad Tepes, also known as the Impaler or Dracula (let’s thank Bram Stocker for that), mentioned Bucharest in a letter dating from 1459. He built a fortress in Bucharest to hold back the Turks threatening the Walachian state. For more historical details, visit this link

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