Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts

12/9/16

Mystical cave complex in Buzau, Romania


One of the most impressive spiritual places in Romania is located only 100 kilometers away from Bucharest in Buzau County. About 30 cave settlements are spread over a surface of more than 5 square km between Alunis, Nucu and Bozioru villages.
The area, located on Ivanetu Crest, hides mysterious grottos, caves, sanctums, some of them carved or graved into the stone, vestiges of the past, used over time as refuge or prayer places. Researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland often came to Romania to study the nearly 30 convents, monasteries and hermitages in Buzau Mountains. There is still no clear and comprehensive study regarding these settlements. Archaeological data processed so far highlightsed the different periods of dwelling, going up to the Bronze Age, Monteoru Culture, or the beginning of the Iron Age, Hallstatt, the only documentary attestation certifying the period from the beginning of the sixteenth century.

11/14/16

Corvin Castle,Transylvania,Romania



As one of the most important properties of John Hunyadi, the castle was transformed during his reign. It became a sumptuous home, not only a strategically enforced point. With the passing of the years, the masters of the castle had modified its look, adding towers, halls and guest rooms. The gallery and the keep - the last defense tower (called "Neboisa" which means "Don't be afraid" in Serbian language), which remained unchanged from John Hunyadi's time, and the Capistrano Tower (named after the saint, Franciscan monk from the Battle of Belgrade in 1456) are some of the most significant parts of the construction.






Other significant parts of the building are the Knights' Hall (a great reception hall), the Club Tower, the White bastion, which served as a food storage room, and the Diet Hall, on whose walls medallions are painted (among them there are the portraits of Matei Basarab, ruler from Wallachia, and Vasile Lupu, ruler of Moldavia). In the wing of the castle called the Mantle, a painting can be seen which portrays the legend of the raven from which the name of the descendants of John Hunyadi, Corvinus came. Tourists are told that it was the place where Vlad III of Wallachia (commonly known as Vlad the Impaler) was held prisoner by John Hunyadi, Hungary's military leader and regent during the King's minority, for 7 years after Vlad was deposed in 1462.







Later, Vlad III entered a political alliance with John Hunyadi, although the latter was responsible for the execution of his father, Vlad II Dracul. Because of these links, the Hunedora Castle is sometimes mentioned as a source of inspiration for Bram Stoker's Castle Dracula. In fact, Stoker neither knew about Vlad's alliance with Hunyadi, nor about Hunyadi's castle. Instead, Stoker's own handwritten research notes confirm that the novelist imagined the Castle Dracula to be situated on an empty top in the Transylvanian Călimani Mountains near the former border with Moldavia.







In the castle yard, near the 15th-century chapel, there is a well 30 meters deep. According to the legend, this fountain was dug by twelve Turkish prisoners to whom liberty was promised if they reached water. After 15 years they completed the well, but their captors did not keep their promise. It is said that the inscription on a wall of the well means "you have water, but not soul". Specialists, however, have translated the inscription as "he who wrote this inscription is Hasan, who lives as slave of the giaours, in the fortress near the church".














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10/23/16

The rock sculpture of Dacian king Decebalus, Danube River, Romania


It`s also not ancient,but it`s interesting.It`s 42.9 m in height and 31.6 m in width carving in rock of the face of Decebalus, the last king of Dacia.It took 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, for twelve sculptors to finish it.











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Dazzling waterfall in Romania,Izvorul Bigăr


Dazzling waterfall in Romania.Izvorul Bigăr (English: Bigar Spring, but more commonly known as Bigar Waterfall) is a protected area (nature reserve IUCN category IV) situated in the administrative territory of Bozovici, in Caraş-Severin County in southwestern Romania.












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