We were leaving Transylvania and drove over the last mountains into Wallachia, the southern region of Romania, and to the capital Bucharest. Slow traffic … Winding road again Gas was available everywhere in Romania Edi speaks perfectly Romanian with his hands 😉 Modern flat buildings at the outskirts of every town But not everybody can …
You haven’t been to Romania if you haven’t visited the castle of Dracula – or what the legend wants us to believe was the castle of this figure, invented by Bram Stoker. Yes, we visited before midnight! Bran Castle, or Törzburg in German, is a fortress situated on the Transylvanian side of the historical border …
… that is the famous Transfăgărășan – a mountain road crossing the southern section of the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. It is the second-highest paved road in the country, after the Transalpina. It stretches 90 kilometres between the highest peaks in the country with over 2500 metres. The road, built in the early 1970s as a strategic military route, connects the …
Today we visited Sibiu – European Capital of Culture in 2007 and one of the most important cultural centres of Romania. It is the centre of the Transylvanian Saxons and a beautiful city full of live. It was ranked as “Europe’s 8th-most idyllic place to live” by Forbes in 2008. Hotel Imparatul Romanilor The Holy Trinity Cathedral was …
Travelling through Transylvania, we visited the star-shaped Romanian fortress in Alba Iulia and the tiny castle of Câlnik, but again there was so much to see while driving through the country. Beautiful houses, once property of the Transylvanian Saxons – a German-speaking minority in Rumania, are now abandoned as most of them left the country since …
The highlight on the way to Sibiu was the Corvin Castle in Hunedoara, but travelling through the villages also gave a good impression of this part of the country. To stock up our cellar with the wines we had tried the night before, we stopped at the Cramele Recas shop, which was conveniently on our …
Not far from Szeged, we reached the border to Romania and travelled eastwards through the Pannonian Plain until Timisoara. Buying a Rovinette for the Romanian roads Getting some route recommendation from Mr. Rovinette Communist architecture at the outskirts of Timisoara Layout of the massive fortress of Timisoara At the beginning of the 14th century, Charles …
The next day was sunny again and we visited the Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park with the famous Feszty Panorama before we continued our journey to our last town in Hungary: Szeged. Árpád Monument Feszty Panorama The Feszty Panorama is a circular panoramic painting by Hungarian painter Árpád Feszty depicting the beginning of the Hungarian conquest …
A short post from the road with some impressions of the landscape and villages we were passing. We ended at a camping 25 km before Szeged in the south of Hungary. Next to us is a park dedicated to the Hungarian history and the conquest of this land by the Magyar tribes under the lead …
We left Budapest and stopped at Queen Elizabeth’s castle in Gödöllő, before we continued into the Hungarian Puszta and visited a typical ranch called Tanya. The estate of Gödöllő once belonged to the Grassalkovich family but was eventually sold to investors. The Hungarian state bought it back in 1867 and gave it, together with the mansion house, to Francis Joseph …
