Taking
into account its communist past and all it meant to the country,
Romania has already travelled a stretch of the road to democracy,
and, therefore, a way to modernization, improvements on road
infrastructure, education and agriculture... Some towns and cities
have been restored recently, becoming attractive spots to the
visitor, like Oradea, for example.
Thanks
to its entry as a member of NATO, democratically, and later into the
European Union, big changes have been made in order to be admitted.
Some of the changes are as follows: control of corruption, organized
crime, administration of European Community funds and sanitary
control of food. Today, you can have a good quality meal in modern restaurants like anywhere in Europe.
Romania
is working on its full development of tourism due to the diversity of
tourist objectives that it has: mountains, beach and sea, the Danube Delta, medieval cities, regions rich in folklore, monasteries, old wooden churches (some of them Patrimony of Humanity), clay
volcanoes, grottoes, salt and mineral waters, etc. Every year, the
number of tourists increases. From 2013 to 2014, its tourist index
increased by 11,5%. The Erasmus+ group visited Turda Salt Mine, which is a good example of an old mine adapted to the modern world with lots of facilities to the visitor.
You
can row in a lake or go down several floors in a modern elevator.
Romania
has solved problems with the ethnic minorities that live in the
country like gypsies and the Hungarians in Transilvania, which are
determinant to form a free and multicultural country, enriched by
them.
As a traveller, I have seen a country with incredible customs and
traditions which make it possible to keep the identity of the
country. At the same time they are reaching the modern world for
example building large shopping centres, they preserve their old
patrimony of wooden churches and an untouched countryside which
combines old houses with new ones in the same style.
Or
they keep on working on traditional trades like wood carving as we
could see on a visit to the Bastion in Oradea.
We
attended the performance of a traditional Romanian wedding at the
school in Beius, which served to illustrate what we had previously
written about it in our article European Weddings Curiosities. It was
nice to see how much music and dance are displayed throughout the
ritual which is accompanied with the drinking of their traditional
alcoholic beverage: Palinca and a huge banquet, where the typical
'Sarmale' is served as the main dish. We could taste it!
The
nice character of its people and their good level of English made
possible a good communication and that we spent very good moments
with them and the other groups.
FONTS:
Very nice, thanks!
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