Showing posts with label Transylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transylvania. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sibiu , Hermannstadt - The City's Eyes














































Sibiu is a city in TransylvaniaRomania
Sibiu is the symbol of a deep and abiding culture that has stood the test of centuries. Labyrinth of stones and secrets, lights and shades, the old town shows stories of the time passing and where the time seems to have stopped as well.
The old Sibiu possesses much of its erstwhile charm, a character carefully preserved, hopefully for posterity.

“Enchanting picturesque” would be the words to describe the special aura which emanates from Sibiu. The tiled roofs with odd angles ventilation slats watching the town creates an eerie very unique impression.


Monday, August 15, 2011

Forgotten Roads - Tabla Buţii



 Don't come after



Ask the mountains 

 Why couldn't this go on?



 Couldn't our happiness go on?



Ask the sun that lightens up the sky


Ask the mountains


Ask the green in the woods and the trees


Ask the mountains


 Why couldn't this go on?



Couldn't our happiness go on?


 Ask the mountains



Wild woods, highlands
















 Don't come after



 Please don't follow me along



When you read this I'll be gone







Tabla Buţii is a "pass" - an alpine passage at the height of 1340m, in the Curvature Carpathians.
The link through this thoroughfare was always made between the Southern Carpathians towards Muntenia and the interior bend of the Carpathians's curvature to the North - West through Ţara Bârsei with Transylvania.
This pathway is easily accessible thanks to the landscape - not very hilly, being the shortest way between Transylvania towards the Occident and the Danube's exits to the Black Sea, towards Levant.
 Tabla Buţii spot is the summit, the peak between the Valley of the Teleajen that rises from Muntenia and the origins of Buzău in the Ciucaş Massif towards Transylvania.
The name of Tabla Buţii comes from the printed "tables" - applied in the past on the barrells filled with merchandise during customs, because there was a custom between Ţara Românească and Transylvania.


Sunday, August 7, 2011

Viscri, Transylvania and HRH The Prince of Wales









































This post was made in case you thought there
was nothing to be done in and around Romania.


Visiting Viscri, in central Romania, is like journeying into the past —
 to a medieval landscape and existence that has been bypassed by all things modern.

The village of Viscri (German: Deutschweißkirch is part of Buneşti commune in Romania.
The village is small, with a population of roughly 400 people and  is part of the Saxon villages
with fortified churches in Transylvania ( the name "Transylvania" is Latin for "Beyond the Forest") , designated in 1993 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

In 2006, The Prince of Wales bought and restored two 18th Century Saxon houses
 in the Transylvanian villages of Malancrav and Viscri
to help protect the unique way of life that has existed
for hundreds of years and promote sustainable tourism.
His Royal Highness , Charles - The Prince of Wales  has a long-standing interest in Romania and has visited the country
regularly since his first visit in 1998.

Viscri
London Evening Standard






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