Romanian Tourism Guide

Those who decide to travel through Romania would probably need to be well-informed, well-advised and highly selective in order to get the most of it, and fully enjoy the experience. Their first question will probably be: “What can Romania actually sell on the tourism market?”

The country can offer a various and harmonious natural heritage, places of beautiful and unspoiled nature in the Carpathian Mountains, along the Black Sea coast, and especially in the Danube Delta, a realm of wildlife which cannot be found elsewhere in Europe. Romanian landscapes seem to have been created by God for those who love nature without reserve.

Then there are those places with a special identity which make up human-made heritage, i.e. historic buildings or art monuments, which bear the distinctive imprint of local history, of the people who have raised them. As a rule, the “consumers” of heritage places, whether in Romania or elsewhere, are those “sensitive” travellers who have an interest in the past, in fine arts or in architecture, which is to say that they have sufficient education to understand the significance of a historical site or monument, to grasp the spirit of the place they visit. They usually associate the heritage place with the constructions of the present, with the local people they meet, and, in a wider sense, with the culture and society of the country they visit.
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