If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts. We hope you enjoy your virtual journey through beautiful Romania!In times of drought, when the sun burns the fields and hope for rich harvests is lost, a young girl walks the dusty street of the [...]

In Romania, the sound of an angel’s song is absolutely unique, something you will never ever hear some place else. That’s because angels use the tulnic or bucium to deliver their musical messages.

The term “bucium”, derived from the Latin word “bucinum” (meaning curved horn or trumpet blast) is used n the Muntenian Carpathians of Arges [...]

Once this was a sacred dance danced only in the spring by a chosen number of men. Today Calusarul is a form of entertainment and the members of the groups still dancing it probably don’t even know its mystic signification. The ancient rules behind it are no longer respected, but the dance, even in its [...]

Horezu is one of those many Romanian heavenly locations, where people are genuine and traditions are still preserved. The Monastery of Horezu, foundedin 1690 by Wallachian Prince Constantin Brancoveanu, is an official UNESCO World Heritage monument.

What made Horezu so popular around the world is not this incredible Christian monument, but the pottery.

The Horezu pottery [...]

It’s the Thursday before Easter, also known as the Great Thursday or the Thursday of Sufferings (known in English as the Maundy Thursday, Holy Thursday or even Sheer Thursday) when the orthodox-Christians from Romania celebrate four events: the washing of the Disciples’ feet, the Holy Eucharist and the Last Supper, Christ praying in the Garden [...]