Avram Iancu is an icon of the fight for freedom of the Romanians in Transylvania.
Known in particular for literature and fine arts, the Romanian avant-garde is also represented by some outstanding names in the field of photography.
Located in northeastern Romania, the city of Piatra Neamt was a major trade hub in the Middle Ages.
Romanias coat of arms features several eagles, an auroch, a lion and two dolphins.
Anyone who went on holidays to the Black Sea Coast, particularly before 1989, must have tuned in to Radio Holidays, a regional channel of the Romanian Radio and TV Broadcasting Corporation in the resort of Mamaia, close to the city of Constanta.
The off-road vehicle manufacturing industry in Romania started its production in the late 1950s.
The Bucharest Technical Museum, created in 1909 by engineer Dimitrie Leonida, bearing the founders name, has a collection of engines that have been crucial to Romanias past development in industry.
A mining town for centuries, Oravita played a leading role in the economy of Banat, a province that until 1918 was part of the Hapsburg Empire.
The Cistercian monks belonging to this well-known Catholic order founded in 1098 in the French town of Citeux or Cistercium in Latin, also travelled to Transylvania in the Middle Ages, establishing their easternmost abbey in Carta, near Sibiu.
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu is one of the cultural myths of the Romanians.
In mid 19th century, when the Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia were undergoing a modernisation process, they were lacking most institutions associated with the modern world, institutions which were first set up in Western Europe.
The ensemble of mills in the Rudaria Gorges is the largest complex of its kind in south-eastern Europe.
A country with a good hydrographic network such as Romania could not have missed the opportunity of using hydropower to both help the industry and to cover domestic demands.
The Hurezi Monastery, commissioned by Romanian ruler Constantin Brancoveanu in his 2nd year of rule, namely in 1689, is located in the town of Horezu, in the Romanian county of Valcea (south west).
Today's edition features one of Romania's prominent architects of the early 20th century.
