There are some countries without which the World would have a totally different face than the one we know today …

With more than 60 peaks over 2,300 metres (7,500 ft) and over 100 crystal clear deep glacier lakes, the Retezat Mountains – located in the Southern Carpathians – are some of the most beautiful in the Carpathians.

The Romanian poet Mihail Eminescu is considered to have transformed both the form and content of Romanian poetry, creating a school of poetry that strongly influenced Romanian writers and poets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Eminescu was educated in the Germano-Romanian cultural centre of Cernăuţi and at the universities of Vienna (1869–72)  [ Read More ]