Ploiesti was named, according to local urban legend, after a shepherd called Mos Ploaie
One of the oldest Hungarian noble families in Transylvania, the Banffy family has left behind impressive buildings.
Alongside the white gold (salt) and the red gold (the metal proper), the black gold (crude oil) is an extremely important underground resource in the Romanian space, reason for progress, but also cause for trouble, throughout history
A substance indispensable in the nutrition of humans and animals alike, sodium chloride, also known as salt, has been exploited by people since times immemorial
Mihai Eminescu, Gheorghe and Raluca Eminovici's seventh of eleven children, was born in Botosani on January 15, 1850. He started school in...
The communists brutally imposed a different way of spending winter celebrations in the country
Christmas, the Nativity of Jesus, has been celebrated ever since the early days of Christianity as a mix of heathen and Christian rites. Just like...
Schnapps is a clear, strong alcoholic drink, typical of the Romanian space.
As far as the history of the automobile goes, Romania has been reasonably in synch with the Western developments in the field.
Romanias capital city Bucharest began to modernise after 1830. Gaetan Burelly was one of the less-known architects who contributed to the modernisation of the city and its transformation from an Oriental-looking merchant town into a European capital
Developments of early 20th-century architecture in Romania
Born in Craiova on November 18, 1906 and having lived a long period in Bucharest, where he passed away in December 1997, painter Corneliu...
The most outstanding Romanian woman sculptor of the 20th century, and also a prominent painter, Miliţa Petrascu was born in 1892 in Chishinau (on the territory of today's Republic of Moldova).
The Great Union centennial next year is a reason for celebration, but is also an opportunity to look back to the last century
