Travel in Transylvania

Transylvania, situated in the central part of Romania is the most cosmopolitan province: its inhabitants, are Romanians, Magyars, Gypsies, Germans, Jews and Ukrainians.

The landscape, picturesque and attractive for tourists, consists mainly in hills and mountains. Among them we have to mention the Apuseni Mountains which are a synthesis of the Romanian Carpathians.

The touristic potential of Transylvania is extremely rich - this is the ideal region where the pleasure tourism, rest, short holidays or different sports can be done. In the mountainous zone, the eye and heart are fascinated by the wonderful landscapes of Transylvania. The karst zone includes some caves of a great speleologic value. In the mountain forests the wild boars, bears, lynxes, deer and wolf still survive in their authentic environment. Also the flora counts numerous of endemic and unique species, especially in the karst zones of the mountains.

Transylvania offers a hospitable home to all its guests who want to see, to feel the nature and peoples in an exceptional tourist region confirmed as such by the ones who visited it. The folk customs and traditions are a point of interest both for Romanian and foreign tourists. Among them we have to mention the Fair of Girls on the on the Gaina Mountain organized every year on about July, 20th (Sf. Ilie).

Points of tourist interest are also museums and hundreds of architectural monuments in all European styles from the Gothic, baroque and Renaissance to the Secession and modern ones. There are old architectural piles of buildings which are relevant to the history and civilization of the region. Among them there are the fortified Transylvanian Saxon churches which are a characteristic defining phenomenon for the civilization and culture of Transylvania.

Dracula's Land, Transylvania is tiring in history and legends; it has preserved an enormous treasure of folklore and popular art, a land of matchless underground wealth, a land that has for centuries bred tough, industrious people, with beautiful faces, garments, and unrivaled hospitality.