This is one of the churches founded by the legendary Stephen the Great, one of the most important figures in the history of Romania , and the building was completed in 1488, when this was ...

The Sf Nicolae Nou Church in Focsani (translated as St Nicholas the New) is one of the oldest in the city, and according to several historians and Orthodox Church officials it might be the ...

This is one of the oldest and most famous monasteries in Romania , both as a place of worship, culture centre and, for art lovers, a church which was painted by Nicolae Grigorescu , a ...

Not far away from Gura Humorului, a small town, lies the Humor Monastery, in the village of the same name, a picturesque and very old place of worship and surely one of the most interesting ...

This is the second largest civilian adminstrative building in the world, surpassed only by the Pentagon, and is also considered to be the most expensive, due to the sheer quantity of ...

This is one of the most famous and important places of worship in Moldova - and even in the whole of Romania - as the Sucevita Monastery has been for centuries a major cultural, Orthodox and ...

This was the very first church built by Petru Rares in 1530, on the place where previously, according to historians, a small wooden church and a somewhat larger stone one laid. The very ...

Built a few miles from Suceava, it was finished in 1602, after Anastasie Crimca, Lupu and Simon Stroici, three Moldavian boyars, decided they had to build a place of worship and devotion for ...

The Slatina Monastery in Romania is the first ever place of worship which was built by Alexandru Lapusneanu, the works being completed in 1558, when this turned out to be one of the most ...

A very interesting and somewhat controversial figure of interwar Romanian literature, he was considered to be one of the founders of the modern novel in 20 th century national literature, ...

He was born in Romania, as Eugen Ionescu, but will become known world wide as a French playwright and dramatist, one of the very best in modern history and maybe the most important name in ...

Emil Cioran was born on April 8 th 1911 in Rasinari, Sibiu, Romania, at that time a part which was a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, a situation which proved beneficial for the future ...

Born in Bucharest on March 13 th 1907, Mircea Eliade will be known world-wide as one of the most valuable, respected and brilliant thinkers, writers and especially as as a historian of ...

The Bogdana Monastery in Radauti, Suceava, is one of the oldest of Romania and also one of the most interesting for researchers and lovers of sacred art, for it has preserved most of it's ...

John Kennedy Toole must be one of the most talked about and equally unknown of all American writers, maybe even all around the world. Many have not read any of his books - A Confederacy of ...

According to historians this here is the very first place of worship built by Stephen the Great, in 1466, a year after he had conquered Chilia, by that the ruler giving thanks to the ...

A huge poetical talent and a controversial character, Tudor Arghezi is considered one of the greatest Romanian poets, one of the reinventors of Romanian artistic language, but also one of ...

One of the best mountain resorts of Romania - many say that it is the best - was actually founded in 1895, way back in the history of the country, which also makes it one of the oldest ...

One of the most important and beautiful cities of Romania, an old, historical place filled with legends and traditions, a major part of the cultural identity of the country, Brasov is a ...