Did you know that…
- Triumph Arch was built following the proclamation of the Union and accommodates four exhibitions which can be visited on the occasion of Army Day, Aviators’ Day and Bucharest City Days.
- Calea Victoriei in Bucharest was formed after the unification of two streets: Brasov Road with Broad Lane (Ulita Mare) to Sarindar. The idea of ??uniting the two roads came because they wanted to obtain an access road between Mogosoaia and Royal Palace, the Old Court. In the past, it was called Mogosoaia Bridge and was paved with logs.
- The House of Parliament ranks second largest in the world after the Pentagon.
- Balea Lake has a maximum depth of 11.35 meters. In 2006 the first ice hotel in Europe was built here.
- Dochia chalet in Ceahlau Mountains can be reached at an altitude of 1,750 meters.
- The Black Church’s belfry in Brasov has the biggest bell of all churches countrywide.
- For 12 years, between 1948 and 1960 Fagaras Fortress was converted into a prison for political prisoners.
- One of the best preserved archaeological sites is the Roman Castrum Porolisum. It is located in Moigrad Porolissum village, Mir?id commune, Salaj County.
- Turzii Gorges house about 60 small caves. Only 20 of them exceed 20 meters, while the largest cave is 120 meters.
- Inside Corvin Castle’s courtyard (Hunyads), Hunedoara there is a 30 meters deep well. For the digging of the well 3 prisoners worked for 15 years.
- Mohamed the second, who conquered Constantinople, failed to pass the walls of Neamt Fortress. Its walls are built with great skill, almost vertical.
- Bukovina region can be ‘translated’ as ‘The Beech Land’ (the Slavic ‘buk’ means beech).
- Close by Cazanele, the Danube’s maximum depth is 75 meters.