1. Greetings from Romania
UNESCO has included up until now, 7 sites in Romania on the list of World Heritage Sites:
NO1. The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina (8 monasteries)
Arbore Church
Sucevita
3.Humor Monastery
4.Moldovita Monastery
5.Patrauti Church
6.Probota Monastery
7.Saint George’s Church / Saint John the New Monastery
8.Voronet Monastery 1

6. Every year for ten days between the end of April and beginning of May, a remote corner in Romania witnesses an amazing show - the blooming en masse of the wild Peonia Tenuifolia. A rare and particularly beautiful type of botanical Peony - also called Steppe Peony, grows wild in an area of 3 hectares. A whole meadow explodes with the blood red simple blooms of this peony. The steppe peony (Paeonia tenuifolia), has a height of cm, with bright red flowers

7. The steppe peony (Paeonia tenuifolia)
Zau de Câmpie is a commune in the Mureş County. Here, on Bota Hil, in the Northwest of the village, is the only place within the Carpathian arch where the steppe peony plant grows and is the northernmost point in Romania where this species is found.
The first data about this steppe peonies were published in 1846 in Vienna
The Steppe Peony Reservation from Zau de Câmpie was founded in 1932 by the academician Alexandru Borza, the founder of the Romanian school of botany. The natural reserve area had 2.5 hectares. The area was saved by Marcu Sâncrãian, the "father of the peonies", a passionate villager who protected voluntary the peonies from 1923 (!) to 2006, the year he died. He also fought to include the reservation in Romanian Academy's patrimonium and managed to increase the surface of the reservation at 3.5 hectares.
In the blossoming season (May), that last exactly ten days, the beautiful meadow attracts many lovers of nature;
The steppe peony (Paeonia tenuifolia)

8. Sibiu
City with a population of 137,026, located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest.

9. Sibiu

10. Catholic Church (Biserica Catolicã)

11. Nowadays the capital of Sibiu County, between 1692 and 1791 and Sibiu was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania.

13. The Holy Trinity Cathedral (Catedrala Sfânta Treime), is the seat of the Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania. It was built in the style of a Byzantine basilica, inspired by Hagia Sophia, with the main spires influenced by Transylvanian church architecture and Baroque elements

16. His Grace Bishop Irineu Children come forward to venerate the cross

18. The Large Square is the historic center of Sibiu, first time mentioned in 1411 as corn market.

20. . In tandem with the city of Luxembourg, Sibiu was designated as European Capital of Culture for the year 2007.

21. Sibiu
Anno Domini
1650

22. Podul Minciunilor - the Small Square of Sibiu and Liar's Bridge, an iron bridge (1859)

23. the Small Square of Sibiu and The Art House - Emil Sigerus Museum of Sibiu
The Small Square of Sibiu and the Evangelical Church. This landmark monument of Sibiu was built during the 14th and 15th Centuries in a gothic style and has two pipe organs (organ concerts here almost every week).

24. Considered to be a forged iron gem, The Bridge of Lies is one of the most important symbols of the city. Rebuilt in 1859 by Friedrich Hütte in the former location of a wooden bridge, The Bridge of Lies is the first forged iron bridge in Romania (Second cast iron bridge to be built in Europe)

25. The Art House - Emil Sigerus Museum of Sibiu is known as 'Butchers' Hall and is one of the oldest „guild houses” Documentary certified in 1370, the historical monument located in the Small Square of Sibiu, is one of the most interesting building that embodies the type of a medieval trading hall
The Art House - Emil Sigerus Museum of Sibiu

27. Catholic Church (Biserica Catolicã)
The Jesuit monks built the church between 1726 and 1733 in Baroque style

28. Bulevardul Vasile Milea
Direcţia Finanţelor Publice

29. Brukenthal National Museum
Opened to the public in 1817, the Brukenthal National Museum was originally Baron Samuel von Brukenthal's official residence.
Built between 1778 and 1788, the palace, then comprising an art gallery and a library, was home to the entire collection. During his lifetime, the Baron transformed the palace into a veritable museum, one of the first museums in Romania.

30. Bringing together world - famous masterpieces of Flemish painting – including the famous betrothal portrait by van Eyck, The Man in the Blue Hat – the  Brukenthal Collection is one of the most illustrious in Eastern Europe. In for the first time in its history, the Brukenthal National Museum offered on loan an incomparable group of some fifty works of art. On the occasion of this exhibition in Paris, at Jacquemart-André Museum, this group of about fifty major works was presented in France for the first time.
Hans Memling
Antonello da Messina
Pieter Brueghel II, The Younger
Lorenzo Lotto
Jacob Jordaens
Man in a Blue Turban -
Jan van Eyck ( c – 1441)
Pieter Bruegel I, The Elder

32. Samuel von Brukenthal High School
Sibiu
Samuel von Brukenthal High School

33. Office tower and subsidiary of BCR (Banca Comercialã Românã)

34. The station is located near Sibiu city center
The station is located near Sibiu city center. The international trains runs to Budapest (Hungary)

35. Almost all the roofs have ventilation openings in the funny and unusual shape of “eyes”.

36. Sibiel Painted Icons Museum
Anca Mãrginean soloist of Sibiu

37. Poiana Sibiului is a commune in Sibiu County
Poiana Sibiului is a commune in Sibiu County. The name means "the glade of Sibiu".

38. Poiana Sibiului

39. Poiana Sibiului
Biserica de lemn (Biserica din Deal)

40. Poiana Sibiului
Biserica de lemn (Biserica din Deal)

41. The Lutheran evangelical church from Cristian Sibiu has been built on the ruins of an old roman basilica having as patron St. Servatius. There still exist some elements of the original church that dates back to the XIIIth century

42. The Cãluşari were the members of a Romanian fraternal secret society who practiced a ritual acrobatic dance known as the cãluş. According to the Romanian historian Mircea Eliade, the Cãluşari were known for "their ability to create the impression of flying in the air” which he believed represented both the galloping of a horse and the dancing of the fairies (zâne).

43. The cãluş is a male group dance, although there are records of traditions from Oltenia region that included 1-2 young girls, now obsolete.
Cãluşari
Cristian, Sibiu
Cãluşari dance in the Saxon fortified church of Cristian, Sibiu county, during the state visit of King of the Belgians Albert II and his wife Queen Paola

44. Text and pictures: Internet Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
Copyright: All the images belong to their authors
Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
Sound: Gheorghe Zamfir – Doina de la Domasnea