Have you ever heard about …ROMANIA?

General Information Position Central Europe

Neighbor Countries Ukraine, Hungary, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Serbia

Capital Bucharest

Home City Craiova

Language Romanian

Surface 238.391 km2

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Population 21.610.213 (in 2006)

Currency Leu (RON) (1 EUR = 4.5 RON)

National day 1st of December

Religion Christian

Anthem Deşteaptă-te, române! (Awaken, Romanian! )

Landscapes…Let’s Start with : The Black Sea

The Carpathians …

the Sphinx and Babele (similar to Cappadocia)

The Danube Delta …

Romanescu Park

Places to see

Traditional Food & Drink

SARMALE (stuffed cabbage):

Minced meat (beef, pork, veal, lamb, or goat) rice, onions and various spices, including salt ,pepper and various local herbs mixed together and rolled into large plant leaves as : cabbage (fresh or pickled), grape leaves etc.

Mămăliga : is cooked by boiling water, salt and cornmeal in a special-shaped pot called ceaun. Is often served with yogurt cream and cheese on the side or crushed in a bowl of hot milk.

Slănină (lard) :fat from the pork`s stomach , kept 2-3 weeks in a very salty water in which one can put garlic scrubbed with hot or sweet paprika and smoked in a room for a couple of days.

Ţuică & Pălincă

Ţuică & Pălincă : drinks made of plums , apples, pears, apricots and sometimes cherries, and even from mulberry (dude). They are double distillated drinks left for fermentation.

Sweets

Cozonac : is a sweet bread, to which milk, sugar, eggs, butter and raisins are added.

Holidays Christmas :

Singing Christmas carols and going with the star .

Going with the goat before “New Year”.

Easter :

The art of painting Easter eggs

“Christ is risen”

"He is truly risen!"

So..why ROMANIA ?

Come visit Romania !

THANK YOU !