What Is the Transfăgărășan Highway? The Transfăgărășan Highway cuts across the Făgăraș Mountains, part of the Southern ...

Queen Elizabeth had a so-called floating embassy. Prince Harry romped in Vegas. Royal vacations have long been opportunities ...

This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life ...

IT’S not the Count that counts in Transylvania. The King’s the thing. Our king. I first heard of Transylvania, as many do, via Count Dracula. The place is so mythical that it hovers abo… ...

The pilgrimage to Șumuleu Ciuc dates back some 450 years. It is linked to a historical event in 1576, when Prince John Sigismund of Transylvania attempted to impose the Unitarian religion on the ...

Among the deep river gorges and forest-covered mountainsides of Transylvania, home to wolves, bears and folktales of vampires, a dark and destructive spirit is beginning to stir. In 1918, modern ...

He spent years mobilizing support for the idea that Romania should be “united” with its largely Romanian-speaking neighbor, Moldova, and also with bits of Ukraine inhabited by ethnic Romanians ...

The Breite Plateau, a broad sheep-grazing ground of 300 acres or so, lies a couple of hundred miles north of Romania’s capital, Bucharest, but only a ten-minute car ride from Sighisoara, the ...

It is one of the minor miracles in the world of international art-house cinema that the movies of Romania’s iconoclast and idiosyncratic director Radu Jude have found a wider audience. Among the ...

Transylvania, Louisiana, stands 10 miles south of Lake Providence at U.S. 65's junction with La. 581 near the Mississippi River in the state's northeastern most corner.

To secure Transylvania, Romania joined the Allies in 1916 and sent legions in the attacks on Hungary. In World War II, Axis member Romania gleefully invaded Russia alongside the Germans and ...