Corvin Castle

Contemporary documents mention the existence of a fortification, on the present site of castrelului, with the fourteenth century, the royal camp with an ellipsoidal shape in the north wing of a tower of refuge, barred on the south side with a stone wall. The possession of the family of Anjou, became the property of Corvin family in the early fifteenth century (1409), while Prince Voicu, which included a donation form and the city of Hunedoara. At this point chronologically Corvin family name is mentioned when King Sigismund of Luxembourg offers those mentioned as a reward for outstanding military merits.     Son of Voicu, Ioan of Hunedoara (Hunyadi Johannes of) amplify existing building in the fourteenth century, after the second stage of construction, resulting in a new enclosure, fitted with seven defensive towers (4 and 3 circular quadrilaterals) – between 1441 to 1446 and built a large chapel, the palace itself (Room Diet, Knights Hall), spiral stair tower and the south side, built in the annexes, in the second stage (1446-1453).   After a series of confrontations with Ottoman Impreriul, John Corvin, military governor of the Hungarian kingdom come, dies after battle of Belgrade (11 June). Elizabeth Szilagyi, his wife and Matthias Corvinus, son, one of the most brilliant medieval kings of Hungary, made ​​loggia of the north wing (Matthew Loggia), construction finalizeza chapel, hall of diet and beauty still works at the castle.

In the fifteenth century, the castle remains a singular example of a noble residence to Transylvanian fortified specific imbinaelemente Construction of the Gothic style late Renaissance, early stage.

Corvin family owns the castle and Hunedoara until 1508, then owners will follow 22 until the eighteenth century, when it became the property of the Habsburg Empire and the castle became the seat of administration of mines and iron storage products (1724-1854).

The destiny of the seventeenth century castle is linked to the personality of Prince Gabriel Bethlen (1613-1629), the operating changes and adapts the order inside the castle defensive requirements of the moment by costruirea White Tower, the artillery platform, the outer enclosure of the palace Bethlen – that combines features mature Renaissance and late – opening new entry gate by the tower again.

After a series of minor changes and fires, the last placed in 1854, destroying the entire wooden structure of the castle, is initiated first restoration (1868-1874), after which the shingle roof was replaced with the brick, it raised some towers and neo-Gothic facade is built in right Bethlen palace, with works and arrangements intrerioare.

Turning to the museum (1974) is preceded by another stage of restoration and consolidation (1956-1968) continued this work after 1997 and until now.

Chapel

The building is considered one of the parties representative of the fifteenth century, representing a mixture of Romanesque (polygonal shape) and late Gothic fashion. Inteventiile placed at the beginning of the seventeenth century affected the original architecture of the chapel. Existence in the Middle Media painting was largely damaged, fragments of it being able to see the altar and the entrance area (the cross of consecrated).

   Matthew Loggia

It remains one of the earliest manifestations of Renaissance art in Transylvania, by overlapping open terraces and fresco paintings that decorate the interior loggia. This painting secular, singular in Transylvania, located mid-century style of XV, illustrates Corvin family legend.

   Fountain

This objective is a sheltered courtyard, is dated to the mid fifteenth century. In digging this fantanisunt about a writer and a legend, the first being embedded in the chapel buttresses, written in ancient Arabic. Incriptiei correct translation is: “I Hasan, I put this inscription in time when I was a slave to giaours in the city near the church.”

Legend tells us that after a struggle, three Turkish prisoners arrive in the city of Hunedoara. After agreement with the owner of the castle, on receipt of freedom, they had to dig a well. After 15 years of work, are not released because water dan de Hunedoara between timpIoan heir dies and do not give freedom promised. Then one of the Turks inscriprie dig a stone that can be translated, according to legend “of water but not have soul.”

 Capistrano Tower

This tower is part of the fortified enclosure suitable fifteenth century, the room was originally used by Franciscan father, John of Capistrano, John Corvin confessor until the second half of XV century.

Room Diet

Is a space dedicated to ceremonies, conducted in the mid-fifteenth century in late Gothic style. Changes in the seventeenth century have left a beautiful fresco secular, current form due to the restoration of the period 1956-1968.

 Bethlen wing

Built in the first half of XVII century old tower between the parties and drummer tower over the walls inside the old ground floor consists of bedroom and living room upstairs. In the nineteenth century was added a gallery, neo-Gothic architecture worked as canons.

 

Knights Hall

Is completed in 1452 and is built in late Gothic style, functionality being the dining room at ocaziifestive, as suggested by typological correspondences in the rural Germans.

Gallery Tower NeBoisa

These parts of the same overall doau innovative defensive, dated in the first half of the fifteenth century Transylvanian ilustreza military art, a trend initiated since the twelfth century crusader knights. NeBoisa called Ensemble (not afraid) consists of a gallery supported by high stone pilasters and a massive tower before, with four levels of defense.

  Old tower gate

The castle served as the first entry in the first half of the seventeenth century, when closed with a circular tower with three levels of defense, called the White Tower, in order to strengthen the defense system on the southeast side of the castle.

  Terrace artierie

Terrace is a purely military construction completed inside XV century, the platform was erected in the early seventeenth century in the time of Prince Gabriel Bethlen

  Administrative Palace

This sector, built on three levels of living, marks the afectta side of restorations, the current appearance is due to the eighteenth century, government officials here being installed mine. Baroque ceilings conserve decorative elements.

 

 

Bran Castle

Located 30 km from Brasov, between Bucegi and Stone Craiului Bran Castle (Vlad the Devil, Dracula, Törzburg German, Hungarian Törcsvár) is an important national monument and landmark in Romania’s tourism, due to both its beauty , the landscape, and the legend of Count Dracula, whose spirit haunts these ancient places.

Bran Castle (in glory – Bran = gate) first appeared in documents in the first reign of Laiota Basarab (1473-1476).

Bran Castle, situated beyond the pass, to Transylvania was built by German Teutonic knight Dietrich, after 1212. Made of wood at first, it is replaced by Germans with one stone, built by 1377 under the reign of King Louis. By the end of the fifteenth century – a century king Vladislav Brasov sold for 1,000 florins with all surrounding land. German name “Torzburg” probably derives from the name Tydricus, as that city was called the sheepfold was built after 1377. The Hungarian name became “Terch” or “Torcs”. Romanian form “Turciu”, first used by Mircea the Old (1413), was kept on behalf Turcu river, which flows near the city.

Built on the steep cliffs of Magura Bran, Bran Castle was originally formed from a defensive position with two rows of walls that closed the pass from the south, of which some fragments have been preserved, low building of the customs office was not kept in shape initial assumption that the old office building was much better than that followed strengthened citadel that contained the actual enclosure wall, dungeon, round tower and the tower gate. Enclosure wall is built of rough stone, limestone, brick portions were then. Wall is shooting holes in the form of rectangles arranged vertically. Only four of these holes (two downstairs and two upstairs) are arranged horizontally
and closed with thick wooden shutter. That kind of shooting holes are found in Rasnov, as well as other cities Rupea peasant in Transylvania.

Dungeon located on the northern side is higher that the rest of the building (it has 4 floors) and is supported by massive stone walls. He has only two rooms and a narrow wooden staircase up to the roof where an observation post. Both curtain dungeon and what it contains, have a line of battlements gradually rounded. Round Tower is today a nearly circular section, but this form dates only from 1593, when the old tower was destroyed by an explosion caused by lightning, will then be rebuilt. This type of towers began to be used only in sec.al fifteenth – century and later, when cities were built in the blind spot. After reconstruction, the tower had the same goal: the ground floor housed gunpowder and the first floor and two rooms were some of which is assumed as one – not to know that – it was in sec. eighteenth – century used as a prison.

Gate tower was replaced in 1622-1625 with rectangular tower. The old gate can be locked with a grill that beams down with the help of pulleys. At the entrance could be reached only with a mobile stairs descended 15 meters to the base rock. In the courtyard, very narrow, the workers dug a deep well in rock nearly 57 m. At the first floor of the tower square, responds in the backyard. So here you can reach a scale wooden furniture. The first room was used as the emergency room and have three shooting holes with wooden shutter and three openings for firearms. Ornamentation old observation tower is still influential Romanian and dates from the time of Gabriel Bethlen.

Dwellings on the northern side, however, are past that period. On the first floor are six rooms: the vestibule, “hall” with fresco ceiling room with ogival vaults, a small kitchen in the first hall gives a second vestibule leads into a vaulted hall ogival windows.

Under the tower stairs, narrow room is a prison that was Fortress. On the second floor is a vestibule, a former kitchen, a small room gives the room the new tower of the gate, a low room with painted beams in the last century Saxon motifs and four windows in deep recesses. Here one can find a small room and give to the wooden gallery courtyard. In the courtyard are two cellars, bread oven and a prison.

Peles Castle

Peles Castle was built at the initiative of the first King of Romania, Carol I, outside the perimeter of Neagului Bridge, city with an area of ​​24 km in 1874, when, at the initiative of the sovereign, the village received the name of Sinaia. A year later, in the center of the first houses are built houses, and in 1876 started construction of the railway Ploiesti – Predeal, which crosses and Sinaia. Simultaneously, between 1873 and 1875 the foundation has been built Peles Castle. Commissioning ceremony of the foundation stone of residence took place in a festive setting on 10/22 August 1875.

Age: 1873 – 1914, on an area of ​​1,000 hectares or estate called Burnt Stone Sinaia, purchased by King Carol I from Eforia Hospital in 1871.

Authors: Architects: Wilhelm von Doderer (1872-1876), professor at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, Johannes Schultz (1873, project supervisor, Doderer’s assistant, and from 1876 to 1883, chief architect), Émile André Lecomte du Nouy (1890 – 1892), Karel Liman (1896 – 1924), Jean Ernest, contractors, builders and owners of construction materials deposits.

Legal Status: former royal residence (1883 – 1947), nationalized in 1948, the museum in 1953 in 1975 and from 1990 to today, ownership of 2007 His Majesty, King Michael I of Romania and Romanian state-run public institution under the aegis Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

The historical context of the building: Peles Castle was built at the initiative of King Charles I, to serve as a summer residence, invested with political functions, cultural and symbolic. After 1914, Peles Castle has exercised the function of representation and the museum, but not to be lived for six months a year as the founding ruler used. By 1947, space becomes Aulic for official visits to military ceremonies or houses. The most important event in Sinaia and Peles Castle hosted by King Michael’s abdication in December 1947 was linked to celebrate the semi castle in 1933 by King Charles II (1930-1940). From January to March 1948, the castle is closed by order of communist authorities and heritage assets are inventoried. Most of the collections of paintings, furniture, textiles, decorative art pieces and books were transferred to the Museum of Art in the capital. In May of that year, other parts have entered the custody of various cultural institutions in large cities of Romania, Bucharest, Brasov, Sibiu, etc.. Since 1953, the castle became the National Museum, open to the public, while other property situated on the Peles, and Pelişor castles, private residence of the royal couple second, Ferdinand I, Mary and Arbour, the former hunting house first king of Romania and residence of the kings Charles II and Michael will become creative and rest houses for writers, artists musicology and approved by the communist regime. Two decades later, in 1975, more critical conservation status of the property determines the extent of its closure and evacuation of a large part of the heritage museum in deposits arranged in an old family mansion Bibescu of Posada, a town located about 20 km south of Sinaia. Between 1966 and 1982, in a former royal castle of dependency, near it, was arranged Museum of Decorative Art (Ceramics), the representative pieces of old harness royal collections. Along with massive work of restoration, the castle houses until 1989, since removal of the communist regime in Romania, a series of visits by heads of state. Since 1990, respectively 1993 and until today, the castles Peles and Pelişor are reopened to visitation. In 2007, after five years of negotiations between the Romanian and the royal house, to reach an agreement, which Peles castle, the castle Pelişor and the whole area consists of former outbuildings royal Peles, have returned the property of King Michael I (1927 -1930, 1940-1947), but continues to be administered by the Romanian state. An exception is the castle Arbour, building inaugurated in 1881. Agreement with the Royal Household, expired in 2009, when the castle in 2010 Pelişor if Peles Castle was again extended.

In 1932, the Watchtower has fallen prey to a devastating fire. It was rebuilt a year later during King Charles II (1930-1940). In the 1970s, the original building and added a new wing and interiors have undergone significant changes. After 1989, the building became the Romanian presidency of the protocol house, a status which continues to hold.

Project implementation period, manufacturers, materials: Peles Castle initial development plans have been entrusted to the architect Wilhelm von Doderer (1825-1900), professor at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna. Doderer submitted three proposals sovereign architectural architecture inspired by French Renaissance castles in the Loire Valley, and in style buildings on the Ringstrasse in Vienna. Projects are rejected by Charles I in 1876 and works management is entrusted to the German architect, Johannes Schultz, who plans elaborate castle in the first phase of construction (1879-1883). Swiss chalet-looking building, composed of two stories proposed by Schultz, was decorated on the outside German-style Fachwerk.

The 1890 is built on the site covered terrace on the south wing, Hall Moors, after the French architect assigned projects, Émile André Lecomte de Nouy, ​​disciple famous French architect, Le Duc Violet.

In 1894, at the head works is called the Czech architect Karel Liman (1860? – 1928). Under his leadership, between 1895-1897 are arranged by Elizabeth Chapel upstairs apartments principeselor of Wied and Hohenzollern on the northern side and mezzanine.

In 1884 electricity network is installed, the castle having a proper generator and the power plant was built in 1897.

Between 1903 – 1906, Liman designs marble gallery, concert hall, music room and bathroom than Queen and arranged rooms on Level II, the first correspondent Attic: Mrs. Mavrogheni room, the great lady of the Palace and the apartments guests from wing north of the castle.

Between 1906-1914, the planning work undertaken outside terraces. In 1906 the castle’s central tower is erected, where a year later was mounted clock with three dials, creation of tower clocks Factory Royal Court of Bavaria, Johann Mannhardt. Also, old music hall are arranged, Hall and Hall Florentina columns, the first place chess rooms and royal living room is extended. Upstairs, on the north wing is built apartment Prime Minister.

Between 1905 – 1906, are designed vast imperial apartment consisting of large hall, lounge, bedroom, Budoir, bathroom and living room apartment princes Jack and heirs, Ferdinand – Mary.

In 1906, there are changes on the ground floor theaters. Also now, the room is adapted to film screenings, by arranging the projection booth. Film equipment was modernized in 1939, the Concordia Society in Bucharest, at the express request of King Charles II.

Between 1908 – 1911, it completed construction of the Halls of weapons, and decorations Florentine Room, the plans of architect Karel Liman and Tiersch Ferdinand, the latter, counselor of King Louis II of Bavaria.

Between 1907 and 1911, hall of honor is arranged instead of the two courtyards, the main reception hall of the castle. The lobby is decorated in German Renaissance style with baroque accents subtle, by Bernhard Ludwig in Vienna, which works closely with the architect Liman. The inspiration of the hall is the Hall of the Palace Fredenhagen Lübeck Chamber of Commerce. In parallel, are built on the ground floor, chess room and billiard room, continuing the Moorish Hall.

Finally, between 1911-1914 is decorated with busts of Roman emperors terrace and the south-east wing is designed by architect Liman Hall Councils and decorator Viennese Bernhard Ludwig. Death of King Charles I on 27 September 1914, marks the end of the vast architectural projects coordinated by the sovereign.

Suppliers of art: Of the major suppliers for the first phase of construction, and Hamburg remember Heymann house workshop led by Bemba in Cologne, Mainz August. Among those who have worked consistently to provide decoration and decorative art pieces for the castle, from 1883 to 1914, he noted Dollitschek Joseph, architect and decorator in Vienna, Anton Pössenbacher in Munich, designer furnishings and furniture and L. Bernheimer, in the same city, a provider of home decoration, furniture, oriental carpets, habitat & Polako in Vienna, like Smyrna carpets suppliers, workshops Zettler of Munich, 1882, the creators of stained glass. These were worked by forty artists and technicians for three years after color sketches made by teachers and Julius E. Widmann Juers. X. F. Barth. The other author of the Peles Castle was stained Zwölfer A., ​​the owner of a famous Viennese shop with branches in Bucharest. Collections of decorative art were established by co-opting some famous western companies of the time: Odiot, in Paris, Eduard Wollenweber, and Paul Telge Munich, Berlin, designers and suppliers of cutlery. They were joined Josef Resch, famous jewelry store in Paris and JA Eysseric, famous manufacturer of furniture in Nuremberg.

Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains form an arc in the very center of Romania. In fact, 31% of the country is mountainous. In this area there are many places of natural beauty desosebita: mountains, gorges, lakes, caves, mud volcanoes and fossil deposits. Hundreds of species of flora and fauna are protected in 400 parks and nature reserves. Carpathian Mountains are home to a number of popular resorts for the possibilities it offers for skiing, hiking mounted, swimming.

 

Winter resort
Prahova Valley, at the foot of Bucegi is the most popular ski area in Romania with four main resorts: Sinaia, logs, Predeal and Poiana Brasov. It is also a very suitable area for hiking. Sinaia with northern neighbor, logs, is in the western valley Bucegi mountains about an hour north of Bucharest. At Sinaia Peles Castle is also found. Further north, guarding both sides of the road Predeal between Bucharest and Brasov. It is the most popular winter resort, snow lasts longer than 100 days a year. Poiana Brasov, at 3400 feet elevation, is located 9 miles from Brasov bus. It is the most well-equipped resort with 12 ski runs. They are found here and football, basketball, handball, swimming pools, fitness clubs and saunas. The best known resorts in the Eastern Carpathians suntT: Durau, Worcester and Borsa. Worcester is located at the foothills of Rura-Giumala. It is well known for mineral waters, as for the ski slopes. Borsa is situated further north, at the foot of Rodna and Maramures. Besides winter sports, exerts a special attraction of the hills around. Lies at the foot of the mountain lasted Ceahlau.
 Hiking and camping

Retezat Mountains, Southern Carpathians in the west are the rocky massif in Romania. Declared National Park in 1935, has an area of ​​32 000 acres, 100 glacial lakes and over 300 floral species. Paltinis resort, near Sibiu, the medieval fortress is like a best place to spend a vacation in the mountains. Eastern handbooks at Campulung at Rarau Mountains, there are Petrele Lady, a limestone rock 230 feet high, and trees Slatioara 400 years old and with over 160 feet tall. Gorge Gorge, 3 miles long, with walls of 980 feet and shelters over 300 species of flowers, is a real challenge for climbers and cavers. Piatra Neamt is one of the most important fossil deposits of marine fauna.

Caves

Bear Cave is located at 1600 feet altitude in the Apuseni Mountains Padeş plateau, near the town knows. It has 3300 feet lungume on two levels, containing skeletons of bears. Woman’s Cave is located in the southwestern Carpathian mountains in southern Skull.

Spring is the deepest cave Tausoarelor in Romanian, descending 1500 feet in the southern part of the northern Carpathians Rodna Mountains, close to Nasaud Topolnita Cave is one of the largest caves in the world, avadn 33 000 feet long. Is in Mehedinti plateau, near Turnu Severin. Created by four rivers that disappear inside the cave, has four levels, falls

 

Danube Delta

To understand a part of what complexity means Delta is not enough to read this, but you have to visit this vast and complex natural environment, to walk the boat on canals and lakes, reed and listen to sounds of nature rustle and only then you realize how rich we are such a wonderful place called Heaven birds and fish.

A place you need to keep it for future generations even as it is now. An exotic, where you can see if you get a chance over 1830 species of trees and plants, over 2440 species of insects, 91 species of mollusks, 11 species of reptiles, 10 species of amphibians, 320 species of birds and 44 mammal species, many of which are declared monuments of nature and unique species. And do not forget that in its waters live 133 species of fish, which is an important source of food for birds and aquatic mammals and an important scientific and economic resource. Here you have the opportunity to meet together all vegetable-lake species in Europe, which is reflected in multiple media life: floating submerged vegetation, Riparian vegetation that forms on the flooding of the ponds and lakes, grassland vegetation of marine sand banks, vegetation areas and areas with salty water temporarily.

You will see a land that is the most important resting place for migratory birds traveling between the Arctic and tropical region, five of the most important roads of passage passing by. Many of these birds will certainly accompany your walks along the boat. In addition to migratory species, nest here and a large number of rare species, as guest of summer, as others, guests for the winter, hatch in northern Europe and come to spend winter in the Delta. Here’s the visit, the Danube Delta is the second in Europe in size, after the Volga River delta, with approximately 4180 km2, and but if we consider the complex Razim – Sinoe and Danube estuary, this area extends to approximately 5500 km2 . Belongs to the Danube Delta in Romania a rate of 82%, the rest being located in Ukraine.

Delta area is divided into three types of zones: 20 strictly protected areas, which totals an area of ​​506 km2 buffer zone with an area of ​​2233 km2 and economic areas with a total area of ​​3060 km2. Surfaces with fixed vegetation occupies 43%, forests (both natural and planted ones) occupy about 4%, agricultural land occupies 11.5% and grasslands surfaces occupy about 6%. Delta lakes, now reduced to a total of 479 decorations from previous years due, take a percentage of 7.8% of the delta. From geographically, Delta is the most humid part of Europe, the lower, the new region of plains, mainly dominated surfaces with small height compared to level 0 of the Black Sea, the greatest heights as a marine sand banks in Letea Caraorman 13 m and 8 m from the level 0 to the Black Sea, a rate below 21% share is negative in the remaining 79% Lying above sea level. The average altitude is 0.52 m. The Danube Delta Patlageanca arrived in the Danube (west of Tulcea) bifurcates into two branches, Chilia north and south of Tulcea arm, the arm which then, in Ceatalul Ismail splits in Sulina (west-east direction) and arm Saint George (NW-SE direction). Arms length Danube: Chilia 120 km, 70 km and St. George Arm Sulina 64 km. Depth of water in the Danube Delta: 39 m Chilia, 34 m to Tulcea, 26 m on the arm of Saint George and 18 m on the Sulina branch. The greatest depth of the Delta, excluding the Danube arms, is in Lake Belciug, 7 m, the rest of the lakes depths exceeding 3 m (Lake Razim). As a location, geographic coordinates are between 44 degrees 47’25 “and 45 ° 37’30” North and 28 degrees latidudine 44’25 “and 29 degrees 46’00” east longitude, being limited to the southwest of Dobrogea Plateau, forms the border with Ukraine to the north and east flows into the Black Sea.

Monasteries in Romania

Certainly there is no other place in the world as Bukovina in northern Moldavia, Romania, where a group of Orthodox monasteries painted with such a high quality exterior frescoes, waiting to be seen. The rarity and beauty of the painted monasteries are part of UNESCO World Heritage. Wooden Churches of Maramures belong to another group, which are unique examples that combine Gothic style with traditional timber construction.

Bucovina

Bucovina is among the most attractive and frequented tourist areas on the map of Romania. Otherwise no accident, this area, known today around the world, has been awarded the International Award 1975 “Pomme d’Or” by the International Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers and multisecularele architectural monuments with frescoes inside and outside in this part of the country were put on the list of UNESCO monuments of universal art.

The impressive number of churches in Bucovina, Romania, with interesting frescoes interior and exterior has been preserved since medieval times. Because of their uniqueness and artistic value, they were added to the International Cultural Heritage List of UNESCO in 1993. Indeed, there is no other place on earth where there is such a group of churches, with such high quality exterior frescoes.

Maramures  

The entire region of Maramures is an “open museum”, known and unchanged lifestyle villages and well-preserved wooden churches. Perhaps that is one of the best known regions of Romania – but not many visitors.
Wooden Churches of Maramures are outstanding examples of Orthodox architecture well preserved Gothic-influenced and Orthodox.

Churches demonstrate a high level of artistic maturity and craftsmanship: they are narrow, tall towers built of logs having one or two characteristic shingle roofs. Church walls are constructed of oak logs placed horizontally. Are exceptional expressions of cultural heritage of this beautiful mountain areas in northern Romania

Virgin Forest

Virgin forests are the last areas of the world where nature survives in its pure form, without any human intervention.
What is the current situation?
When you think of virgin forests probably come to mind landscapes of the Amazon basin in Siberia or northern Pacific coast of North America. That’s because in Europe and virgin forests have almost disappeared. “Civilized countries” have paid a high price for their modernization, destroying forests and unconsciously. Yet in Romania still have virgin forests. Eco-Carpathian region still hosts 322,000 hectares of such forests, of which the vast majority, 250,000 ha are in Romania.

But although we pride ourselves on the largest area of ​​virgin forests in the region, only 18% of them have some protected status, in that they are included in protected areas. An even smaller percentage enjoys full protection. The rest, over 80% have no form of protection and are in danger of being destroyed legally.
How to get here and where we are going?
The main reasons for the virgin forests have survived in the past is their inaccessibility and low economic value of timber from old trees. Today, however, virgin forests are more vulnerable than ever before economic and social pressures.

The increasing demand for forest products, diversification of ownership connected with the economic objectives of the new owners, construction of new roads that facilitate access to the forests far away from danger and technological advance of logging machinery are the main reasons that make us worry very much about the chance of these forests to survive in the near future.
What can we do?
Saving can only virgin forests by providing full protection status. A status that would receive as soon as the authorities would change their framing of “protection forests” (which may occur for extracting wood) in “strictly protected forests” and would agree to provide compensation to those who hold these forests and could not capitalize on them. But for this to happen, we all need to show that we care about the fate of these unique and spectacular forests.
Why is it worth fighting?
Only then our country will keep that legacy few forests, one of the few on the planet, where nature is untouched and follows its natural course. Just as we could and we pride ourselves on the highest biodiversity in the entire European Union. For a virgin forest can live over 13 000 different species and their incredible delicate and interdependence is one that can maintain, further, a balanced and healthy ecosystem that will give us new people, clean water, clean air and effective protection of soils.

The day virgin forests will enjoy 100% protection, we know that we saved an important part of our country’s heritage. And I made another step – perhaps among the most important, looking ahead – to a society where we know we can change things for the better.

Romania

• Romania’s relief is characterized by four features: variety, proportionality, complementary and symmetrical arrangement, given the large number of forms of relief, almost equal distribution of the main relief units (35% mountains, 35% hills and plateaus and plains 30%) and group relief.  Romanian Carpathians extend the ring, which closes the great depression in the center of the country, one of Transylvania.  are middle altitude mountains, fragmented, with an alpine, alpine meadows and large areas of erosion , whose maximum height is reached the top of Moldoveanu (Fagaras Mountains) at 2544 meters. In Romania, the Carpathians have a length of 910 km.

  Outside the Carpathian Mountains is a ring of hills – Sub-and Western Hills – the most densely populated places,  because rich subsoil resources (oil, coal, salt) and favorable conditions of culture-vine grape and fruit trees. In eastern and southern plateaus extend three (Moldova, Dobrogea and Getae) and Mehedinti Plateau, while south and west lie two great plains, the Romanian Plain (narrow east) and Western Plain.

  Delta is the lowest region of the country, less than 10 m altitude, with expanses of marshes, lakes and reed. something higher are fluvial and maritime (Letea, Caraorman Sărăturile) that are grouped fishing villages. It is an ancient territory described by many scientists of the times, including Herodotus, Strabo, Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder.  was introduced in the Danube Delta World Heritage List of UNESCO in 1991 as a nature reserve of the biosphere.

  Romania benefits from all types of aquatic facilities: rivers and streams, lakes, groundwater, marine waters. Romania’s hydrographic and hydrological peculiarities are determined mainly by its geographic position in the temperate continental climate and the presence of the Carpathian arc. Anthropogenic factor has contributed to some changes in these characteristics.