Constanta is the oldest city in Romania. First documented dating back to 657 BC the current place peninsula (and even under water today, opposite the Casino) to form a Greek colony called Tomis. The village was conquered by the Romans in 71 BC and Constantiana renamed after Emperor Constantine’s sister. During the thirteenth century the Great Sea (Black Sea as it was called then) was dominated by Italian merchants from Genoa who helped develop the city. Subsequently, Constanta declining Ottoman rule and became a simple fishing village of Greek and breeders of horses and sheep, Tatars. City has become a city where construction Cernavoda-Constanta railway and port in 1865, the Romanian grain exports. After the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), the Dobrogea became part of the Kingdom of Romania, Constanta, the main port of the state increased continuously, holding that role until today.

Constanta Port covers an area of 39.26 km², has a length of about 30 km, is the largest port in the Black Sea and is in 4th place in Europe.

Constanta is an industrial center, commercial and tourist national importance. In the first half of 2008 in Constanta and neighboring towns were established company in November 3144, placing the county in third place nationally, where 12,845 units in Bucharest and Cluj county business 4091. Here is Romania’s largest port and the fourth of Europe, in which the shipyard work, one of the largest by number of vessels built and repaired.

Tourism is an important economic industry. Although Constanta has been promoted as a seaside resort by King Carol I, development of shipping industry had the effect of decreasing the beaches. However, because placement near tourist destinations, many people discover and visit the monuments of the city. It also finds is a center of commerce and education, which are also important aspects of the local economy.

Constanta has two beaches furnished by the city: Modern beach located near the Tomis Marina and near Peninsular Beach Slippers 3 in the North of the city to Mamaia. There are sandy medium with recreational facilities, terraces, restaurants, services, lifeguard, soccer fields and volleyball. etc.
Point of interest, historical monuments, museums.

Constanta offers many possibilities for leisure tourists from that listed by the best known:

Tomis Marina Located near the famous casino and the beach, Modern “port is a device acvatoriu concrete dams that are anchored yachts, yachts and pleasure boats. The only place where you can see the yachts coming from various corners of the world and where you can make excursions by sea on the few boats for recreation. Some restaurants under docks port offers a great view and a menu rich in marine specialties. In close proximity are the Genovese Lighthouse (built by the British in 1860). An area which should be avoided if you come in Constanta, here You will feel the scent of the sea and distant travel meleguri.

Navy Museum sole museum of its kind in the country has a very interesting collection of various artifacts in the history of civil and military navigation and input price is affordable.

Aquarium If you have children and want to offer them a very pleasant time, the most appropriate place in Constanta is the Aquarium, where performances are held several times a day Aquarium is located near Mamaia and is easily reached by route No 40.

Tank opposite the Casino is the Constanta Aquarium with an interesting collection of different species of fish and various animals marine.De the beach, Modern”is reached on foot in 5 minutes.

National Museum of History and Archeology. Located in Ovidiu Square, where there is the famous statue of the same name, the museum houses exhibits and artifacts of the ancient citadel of Tomis but also many other relics of the civilization of the Black Sea coast in ancient times such as: building Roman mosaic, Tomis Fortress ruins etc.

Theaters: Oleg Danovschi Ballet Theater, one of the most famous ballet theaters in our country expects its audience with an original repertoire, backed by a band of special artistic: Theater Lyric Theater Review Fantasio are also other possible places to spend their Time for fans of the genre art.

Religious buildings: The Mosque of Constanta-built (1910) Moorish style is a faithful copy of the great mosques of Turkey Koni with a very high minaret (50m) of which opens a panorama of harbor and city incantattoare and frumosa a mural inside. Orthodox Cathedral of consistently high in 1895 in the traditional style of the Romanian Country Greek Church where making jobs in Greek.

Accommodation, Hotels, Villas, Hostels, Apartments

A constant benefit of the classic accommodation consists of hotels and tourist complexes but also great possibilities of accommodation to the citizens of the town houses, apartments or villas private property. In general this system of quality accommodation and service charges vary greatly and can find solutions suitable for every budget and desired comfort. Accommodation during your vacation at the seaside in Constanta can be an acceptable solution considering these issues: affordable prices for accommodation, transportation network that allows during the summer season with a good connection Mamaia well with other south coast resorts , cheaper than in town to restaurants, shops, markets, etc. than resorts, entertainment possibilities there in resorts such as theaters, cinemas, museums, etc. Tomis Marina.

Wondering in one of my walks through the forest Ceala I learned with some astonishment (it due to an information board), that there was a city somewhere in the forest.About 30 min. thru the forest pass the pond Maltaret, out of the ground waves which is a nursery of shrubs, nothing reminds us that a couple hundred years (possibly thousands) there was a human settlement with the role of the city, which gave the battle or to conquer them.Fortress Ceala – vestige of a Turkish fortress, the stand of cypress swamp.

Josh Gates and his Destination Truth team have formerly travelled around the world for two seasons to explore supernatural peculiarities, moving towards their mission to expose the reality behind more mysterious secrets. Local authorities claim that this forest is home to numerous appearances of shadows and momentary beams of light. The most fascinating and shocking thing was the presence of presence of a “crop circle” in the forest, a mysteriously sparse piece of land destitute of the thick vegetation that surrounds it. The cameraman was hardly rescued by team, when he is knocked to the ground in the crop circle by an invisible power. These things have been experienced by the local residents for at least five decades.

This is very interesting reality TV show that has captured the attention of those who are interested in supernatural powers and their presence in the world because human beings are enough to scare each so no need to be scared of theses mysterious things. In the next episode, the team moves towards the Yucatán to explore the secret of the Alux, a pygmy like creature described by Mayan people.

Lake Ghioroc with an area of over 10 hectares and equipped with a beach, is one of the local tourist attraction centers. Fishing and bathing in the lake, the source aquifers are delicious cousins in Arad.
Common Ghioroc is located on Channel Matca, in the foothills of Zarand. Village of residence is situated at 22 km from the city Arad.
* The Roman Catholic Church (1779-1781)
* Church of the Holy Martyr Demetrios (1793)
* Monument dedicated to fallen heroes in battle in 1944
* Museum Vine and Wine
* Agricultural Museum
* Lake Ghioroc

Transylvania concept is, in terms of geographical and political understanding two distinct first concern, in a restrictive sense, only the intra-region, bounded by the Eastern Carpathians, Southern Carpathians and west of the Western Carpathians (Apuseni Mountains). This macro-regions was called in medieval Transylvania, Transylvania Princely Voivodeship ( “land beyond the forest”), its total area measuring approximately 57,000 kilometers².

The second meaning of the name refers, by extension, also in Maramures, Crisana, Satu-mare, known as Partium held, that “the parties” from Hungary, side by mid-century XVI historic core of the Transylvanian plateau, forming with the Principality of Transylvania.Ie: counties (counties) Maramures, Salaj, Satu Mare, Bihor and Arad. Surface area was even higher Partium. For example, under the Treaty of Speyer (1571), were part of Partium districts (counties) Maramures, Bihor, Zarand, Solnocul the Middle Crisna province (country) Chioarului and districts (counties) Arad and Severin.

Sometimes, Transylvania is given a very broad sense, it designated the Romanian territory west of the eastern Carpathians and north of the Southern Carpathians, thus including the Banat. Fluctuating nature of the contents limit is due to the complex evolution, historical-political, the region of age postromanã to modern times.

The total area of Transylvania, with Banat Crisana, Satmar and Maramures, totaling 100,293 km ², which repreprezinta 42.1% of the total area of Romania. Population living in this area include 7,221,733 inhabitants, a figure which represents about one third of the population of Romania.

Transylvania is the geographically a high plateau, south of the country separated by Romanian Southern Carpathians and east of Moldova in Eastern Carpathians. The western part of Transylvania (Crisan) has borders with Hungary. To the north, is bordered by Ukraine (Transcarpathian region – which includes northern Maramures history – and Ivano-Frankivsk). Plateau heights between 305 and 488 meters is irrigated by the rivers Mures River, tributaries of the Tisa and Olt River, tributary of the Danube. The largest city in the region, according to the census of 2002, Cluj-Napoca (its historic capital, alternative Sibiu and Alba Iulia) followed by Brasov.

At the end of World War I, in the context of the dual monarchy collapsed, Hungary proclaimed its independence, including in its territory and Transylvania. In these circumstances, the leaders of the Romanian National Party and the Social Democratic Party Romanian National Council established in Arad on November 3, 1918. On November 13, 1918, in Belgrade, the Hungarian government signed an armistice with the Entente, setting a demarcation line, which left the control of northern and central Hungary, Transylvania and Banat, under control of Serbia. Under these conditions, the Romanians held on November 18 / December 1, 1918 a National Assembly in Alba Iulia in 1228 designating delegates. The meeting had aprticipat approximately 100,000 people and was conducted in a decent and festive atmosphere. [30] The National Assembly decides the union with Romania Romanian-inhabited territories. After the 1918 union with Romania for a year and half, Transylvania remains autonomous under Roman rule, being managed by a Board Dirigent.

Case Assembly shall be sent King Ferdinand that on December 11/24 sanctioned union with Romania “lands covered by the decision of the National Assembly in Alba Iulia.” However, Romanian authorities do not exercise control over all the territories concerned. Romanian Army had stopped the Mures line and north of this no Dirigent Council nor still less the Kingdom of Romania was not exercised effective authority. Entente Powers ordonasera end any military operations to negotiate peace with Hungary.

Meanwhile, on March 21, 1919 power in Hungary was taken over by communists, who proclaimed the Soviet Republic of Hungary led by Bela Kun, a native of Cluj. Hungarian communist forces attacked the Czechoslovak army and Romanian troops from the territory of Transylvania in hopes of making the junction with the Soviet troops who in turn attacked in Bessarabia and Ukraine. In July 1919 the Romanian army started at the request of the Entente, the offensive against the Hungarian forces, and on August 3, 1919 occupied Budapest, breaking the Soviet regime of Bela Kun. The Romanian army withdrew from Budapest in October 1919. During stationary in Hungary, the Romanian army held several points of distribution of food to starving people, especially in large cities.

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 shall be the border between the Kingdom of Romania and Hungary. Northern border with Czechoslovakia and Poland and the south-west with Yugoslavia is set at August 10, 1920 by the Treaty of Sèvres. The latter treaty was painful for Romania as the Romanian forced abandonment of the historical Maramures and Banat, but the Entente Powers had pushed for its completion as set borders between countries become allies after the First World War. In terms of the Hungarian state, the Treaty of Trianon is considered dictate, as they say, was not taken into account the views and some existential interests of the Hungarian state, Hungary’s borders were established not on ethnic grounds (Wilson plan) but the geopolitical and strategic-economic criteria. As a result, cities and regions Hungarian majority and minority Romanian, Serbian, Slovak was found in neighboring states railway lines and interrupting the flow of goods to and from those cities (Arad, Oradea, Subotica, Košice, Muncaciu, Novi Sad AND . a.). Treaty of Trianon placed 33% of polluting Hungarian Hungary before the war abroad.

Between the two wars, Hungary led a sustained struggle to annul the Treaty of Trianon, which the Hungarians felt a historical injustice. Some historians and politicians claim that Hungarians with Romanian land reform of 1921, which affected vast land ownership in Romania, including the Hungarian property owners, while a while after the war, Hungary’s economy has been crippled by new borders Why split what had previously been forced a single economic space [citation needed]. In the words of the Hungarian head of state between the two world wars, Admiral Miklos Horthy, “an enemy of Hungary is Romania, so that the largest territorial claims are against them.” [Citation needed]

In these circumstances the successor states of the dual monarchy tried to organize alliances able to fight the revision of peace treaties. Of these the most lasting was the Little Entente, the alliance between Romania,Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. However, the system of peace treaties of Versailles was put in danger when Hitler came to power in 1933, it proclaimed that the main objective review of the Versailles Treaty, amid political weakness (appeasement policy) of France and Great Britain before the German National Socialist dictatorship. The Munich Agreement of 1938 which incorporated the Reich and the dissolution of the Czech Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia in 1939 marked the end of the Little Entente.

In 1940, in the context of the rise of Nazi Germany and Romania’s isolation following the collapse of its system of alliances (fall of France and Great Britain isolation), Hungary calls for review after World War frontier. King Charles II and Gigurtu government talks but negotiations have accepted the principle of Turnu Severin in summer 1940 did not lead to any results. Accordingly, foreign ministers of Italy and the Reich, Joachim von Ribbentropp and Galeazzo Ciano summoned in Vienna on August 30, 1940 the foreign ministers of Romania and Hungary, and imposed an agreement that the transition in Hungary constituted a territory of 43,492 square kilometers, with a Romanian population of 1% (as of January 1941 the Hungarian census, 1.5%, or 106,900 Romanian, Hungarian population accounting for 98.5%, or 2,344,000 people) [31], a territory known as behalf of Northern Transylvania (Hungarian Észak-Erdély). The agreement, called in Romanian historiography Vienna Award, and the Hungarian “Second Vienna Award” (the first being that the Hungarian and were surrendered in 1939 territories “Upper Hungary” / Felvidék, that southern Slovakia Today, with a predominantly Hungarian population), provides current territorial Hungary joining Satu Mare, Salaj, Maramures, Bistrita-Nasaud, Harghita, Covasna (mostly), Mures (part), Cluj (the largest part), Brunswick (the north) and part of Arad county. Southern Transylvania (the counties of Brasov, Sibiu, Alba, Hunedoara, parts of the counties of Cluj, Arad and Mures) and Banat (Timis and Caras-Severin county) remained in the composition of the Romanian kingdom.

Case of discontent both states, both Romania and Hungary, which is then desirable to annex the entire region. Submission of Hungarian army in Transylvania was marked by serious atrocities committed against minorities. For example, in northern Transylvania, Hungarian soldiers have committed atrocities and massacres against the Romanian inhabitants of several villages (Moses, Ip Jolted etc.), topping the number of dead at around 1700. Number of torture amounted to thousands.

By Article 19 of the Armistice Convention signed on September 12, 1944 by Romania with the Allies in the Second World War, after the coup led by King Michael of August 23, 1944, shall provide that the allied “agree that Transylvania (or most of them), be returned Romania, provided confirmation of the Treaty of Peace. Soviet state sought to use the postwar period the question of Transylvania in political relations between Romania and Hungary. It is significant that although the Romanian army participated in fighting in northern Transylvania, the Soviet army did not allow recovery Romanian civil authorities in the territory ceded to Vienna until March 6, 1945, in Bucharest on the Communist-dominated government was installed and led Dr. Petru Groza.

In the period between 1945-1947, until the conclusion of peace treaties between the Allies and Romania and Hungary (both have had the status of countries defeated in the Second World War), in Hungary there were steps to keep even a small part the territory acquired in 1940 (being focused on the present county of Satu Mare). However, peace treaties of Paris, in 1947, confirms the return to existing on 1 January 1938 border between Romania and Hungary (the border established by the Treaty of Trianon) and validity of the Vienna Diktat.

The name comes from the Dacian tribe of Carpi, who lived in Moldova, the eastern slopes of the Carpathians, a name which, in turn, probably came from an Indo-European word meaning stone.

The highest peak is Gerlach whole Carpathians, 2655 m, in Slovakia and in Romania is Moldoveanu Peak, with 2544 m, situated in the Fagaras Mountains of Southern Carpathians.

Unlike the Alps, the Carpathians have large mountainous and their heights in the form of large areas covered with grassland. Carpathians belongs to the largest volcanic chain in Europe. Along with a large crystalline rocks and volcanic sedimentary rocks have an extension, giving a relief with gentle slopes.

Carpathians begin on the Danube near Bratislava. They surround Transcarpathia and Transylvania in a large semicircle, continues southeast, and end on the Danube near Orsova, Romania. The total length of the Carpathians is 1500 km, and the mountain chain width varies between 12 km and 500 km. The greatest width of the Carpathians corresponds with the highest altitude. Mountain chain is the largest width in hilly Plateau of Transylvania, and at the foot of the Tatra Mountains (the highest height of the Carpathians, with Gerlach know, which is 2 655 m altitude, the territory of Slovakia on the border with Poland. It covers an area 190 000 km2 and, after the Alps, is the most extensive mountain range in Europe.

U can find many 5 star hotels or lower standards all over in the Carpatian Mountains chain and have a great vacation any time of the year, specially in winter when all is covered in snow. Settle your self at pension Dracula for a mystic vacation any time wich was named after Vlad Tepes also knowned  as Dracula.

It is one of the main tourist attractions of the Apuseni Mountains, it being in Bihor county, close to town Chişcău, Pietroasa commune, at an altitude of 482 m.The interior is distinguished by the diversity of existing formations of stalactites and stalagmites, and the impressive amount of traces and fossils of bear`s cave – Ursus spelaeus – who disappeared 15,000 years ago. In addition it has been discovered and fossil chamois, ibex, lion and hyena caves. On entering the cave is a flag made from a waiting room, ticket office, a bar, a small museum and a stand speleological Souvenirs and crafts of the region.

With a length of over 1500 meters, the cave consists of galleries located on two levels: first gallery, the upper 488 meters in length can be visited by tourists, and the second 521 m long is reserved for research scientific.

Simplified diagram of the cave
Upper gallery available visit, is composed of 3 different galleries and halls.

The name is due to the numerous cave fossils “of  bear`s cave (Ursus spelaeus) found here. The cave was a place of shelter for these animals 15,000 years ago. In his old age, like many other mamaifere (ex. African elephant) of bear`s cave retreated to die in the same place as the predecessors. Witness the numerous cemeteries are discovered in caves in Romania (cave churches, cave with bones) or elsewhere where the skeletons were found intact, undisturbed.The entrance was clogged meantime. The cave remained so closed until September 17, 1975, when the gap was opened artificially

underground portion dynamiting the entrance, through the work of mining limestone (marble).The open pit has lowered for the first time, mineral Curta Traian from place Chişcău. It has come access gallery to the Great Hall.

A first exploration of the cave took place on September 20, 1975 made by the group of amateur speleologists “Speodava” Dr. Petru Groza of the town (now city Stei). Based on comprehensive studies undertaken by the Institute of Speleology “Emil Racoviţă” with Crisurilor Museum in Oradea, were established improvement solutions and specific measures of protection. After 5 years of world-class accommodation at July 14, 1980, the cave was opened to visitors. Annual cave is visited by over 200,000 visitors.

These stories come from the locals who encounterd or had a strange expirience in or near the Hoia Baciu forest. A native Tascau Matthew, says that in one nig

ht hhe walked in the woods to shorten the way home, barely reached the forest entrance road whet without warning a devil appeared in his way, about 2 m high, horns and ugly.

Matthew remained breathless, amazed and stuned,it didnt even knew what was happening to him, the only thing taht he could do was fall on hes knees and pray with his eyes close. About 7-9 minutes later he open his eyes continuing to pray and to his joy he was alone again, scarred and shocked he hurryed home and told all his strange and frightening encounter.