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Part of our Romania Tours are also the Hiking and Culture tours. These tours are dedicated those who love to spend their free time in the nature, mountain funs, beginners, medium or advanced hikers. To the usual Hiking Romania Tours we added some cultural and historic sights. If you want a mix between the nature, mountains, wild scenery with historic and cultural sites choose one of our Hiking Tours in Romania.
Romanian mountains – the Carpathains are the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and northern Hungary. Romania contains by far the largest area of the Carpathians, and forms the eastern and southern boundaries of the region. 55.2% of the Carpathian region is located within Romania. 47.4% of Romanian territory is part of the Carpathian mountain range. The Romanian Carpathians are divided into three groups: Eastern Carpathians, Southern Carpathians and Western Carpathains. The highest peaks are in the Southern Carpathians - Moldoveanu (2544 m/8,346 feet) and Negoiu (2535 m/8,316 feet) The Carpathians' ensemble is characterized by its varied landscape owing to the different types of relief particularities (glacial, karstic, riverine, structural-lithological), the alternation of mountainous and depressions units, gorges and valleys and the diversity and configuration of the vegetation. They contain the highest concentration of large carnivores in Europe, with estimates of over 6000 brown bears, 2500 wolves and some 1750 lynx living in the region. The Romanian Carpathians represent an exceptional tourist attraction and a very popular place for Hiking Romania Tours. The flora of the Carpathians includes 1350 species, among which 116 are endemic. The Carpathian floral year begins at the end of February - the beginning of March, with the colsfoot, the snowdrop, the hollow wort and the pheasant's eye. The rose bay flowers at the beginning of June, when the mountain slopes above the juniper belt become red being covered by the splendid carpet of rose bay. It is indeed a special event. In July and August, the lawns, the slides and the rock walls are turned into multicolored canvases by the other plants in bloom: little lilies of the valley, pigeon chins, various species of pursuance, bird's eye, saxifrages, spotted gentian and the yellow gentian. Autumn time is announced by the amellus starwort (Aster amellus) and the swallow wort gentian. On the culture side we offer in our Hiking and Culture Tours in Romania visits at the Transylvanian medieval cities as Brasov – the old saxon city built in XIII century and its impressive Medieval District; Sighisoara – the “Pearl of Transylvania” and one of the very few medieval citadels stil inhabited – protected by UNESCO; Sibiu – the European Capital of Culture in 2007 and also a very old city (XII century), former capital of Transylvania and a city which still preserve the charm of medieval ages. Join one of our Hiking and Culture Tours in Romania and you’ll have the possibility to visit the medieval Bran Castle, also called Dracula`s Castle, it is situated not far from Brasov (25 kilometres) at the entrance in the Bran - Rucar passage. The castle got its fame from Dracula`s legend written in 1897 by Bram Stoker and later on made into a film by Francis Ford Coppola; The Peles Castle, former summer residence of the kings of Romania, the Peles Castle is 44 kilometres far from Brasov, in Sinaia, a well-known mountain resort as well. Nowadays the Castle is one of the most important museums in Transylvania where one can admire furniture and ornamental objects, carpets, tapestry, sculptures, paintings, collections of weapons from the 15th up to the19th centuries; Rasnov Fortress, built in 1331, the Fortress had a defence role and it was a shelter for the inhabitants of Rasnov in case of enemy attacks. In the middle of the courtyard there is a well 146 metres deep and the ruins of an 11th - 12th century - Orthodox church were discovered here. Don’t miss the german fortified churches which can be find in almost every village from south Transylvania. Visit Prejmer Fortified Church, one of the best preserved and the biggest of its kind in Eastern Europe. The church is modeled after churches of Jerusalem, as well as built in the style of Late Gothic churches from the Rhineland. We invite you join one of our Hiking and Culture Romania Tours Discover our Hiking and Culture Tours in Romania
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