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Romania is a country in Eastern Europe, about the size of UK without Wales.
The national flag is red, yellow and blue, with an eagle in the middle. The national language, Romanian, is a blend
coming from the old Dacian language spoken by the native Dacians and the Latin, spoken by the Romans that conquered Dacia.
Romania has all kinds of terrains, from seashores of the Black Sea and the Danube Delta, going through rich harvest plains and hills, forests, high mountains and lots of rivers and lakes.
Danube is the second largest river of Europe, and the Delta of Danube is one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world.
Romania has a long and rich history, going back

more than 2,200 years, with lots of achievements
and troubles, wars and peace periods, with its
people living through good and bad times and
never losing their hope.
The national folk costumes are varied, nicely colourful, with feats of different parts of the country, often using birds feathers, like pheasants, peacocks and grouse, or wide leather belts, brass or steel buckles, and precious metals for
personal ornaments and jewelry. Sometimes it takes months until a costume is being made, and wearing the national folk costumes is a reason of pride and display for any of the bearers.
There are numerous country feasts and fairs, where the locals dress up in their best traditional outfits, proudly taking part in the event, and craftsmen like potters, wood carvers, blacksmiths, show their skills and bring in products made by
their hands with traditional tools.
At this kind of fairs and folk feasts you can taste the real
traditional Romanian foods and drinks, among them the
‘’mamaliguta cu branza si smantana’’, a kind of polenta with
delicious home made cheese and milk cream, ‘’sarmale’’, sort
of minced meat rolled in sour cabbage leaves and served with
polenta, ‘’tochitura’’, which is a kind of stew of pork meat and chopped potatoes combined with
plenty of sauce made with vegetables, herbs and spices, ‘’brânza de burduf’’, cheese of sheep milk, kept in leather bellows or wrapped in pinetree bark. Before eating, people are invited to have a small glass of ‘’ţuica’’, a
traditional alcoholic drink made of plums, to stimulate appetite, and during or after meal, a tasty fine wine made in the local vineyards, often over 5 years old wines, some of which are well known in Europe and even the
world.
There are also dancers that take this opportunity to show their skills, much to the delight of the audiences, many dances are unique, like the ‘’calusarii’’, a fast-paced, vigorous, energetic dance, performed by young men,
‘’fetele de la Capalna’’, a strange, almost surreal, spirit-summoning dance around a big fire, performed by young women dressed in ethereal veiled dresses, ‘’hora’’ and ‘’sârba’’, in which young men and women get
together, holding each other’s shoulders and then waists, living a tumultuous moment, singing ‘’doina’’, a folk longing song that could be only heard in Romania, and many, many more...
A number of religious feasts are of a very high importance to most Romanians, these being Easter, Christmas, as well as the namesake days of various saints/patrons in the Christian Orthodox calendar which include, as
most important, Saint Basil the Great, Saint John, Saint George, Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Saint Mary, Saint Paraskeva and others.
For Easter, girls and women spend quite some time painting the eggs, decorating them and making them look like pieces of art. It’s a tradition that is met with joy and eagerness, they love doing this, it’s an opportunity to
feel deeply connected with the religious feast. And then it’s the food, special courses for Easter, like the artfully painted eggs, ‘’drob’’, a mixture of minced lamb meat and liver, ‘’pasca’’, ‘’placinta cu branza’’ cheese and
dill pies, ‘’cozonac’’, like a sweet leavened cake... People go to church in the night before Easter, they attend the religious sermon and light up candles, receiving holy bread from the priests.
At Christmas time, in the night of Christmas Eve, groups of young men and women, often children, wander the streets of the villages and towns, stopping from house to house, singing traditional and religious songs to the
hosts and receiving pretzels, walnuts, apples, cookies and pies. Many times, the gates of the house yards open wide, to accommodate large groups that can get up to 20 people.
On the New Year’s Eve, young men wander the streets with the ‘’pluguşorul’’, ‘’capra’’ and ‘’ursul’’, traditional Romanian winter customs, and on the very first day of the New Year, the children go for ‘’sorcova’’, another
New Year folk custom.
At this kind of fairs and folk feasts you can taste the real traditional Romanian foods and drinks, among them the ‘’mamaliguta cu branza si smantana’’, a kind of polenta with delicious home made cheese and
milk cream, ‘’sarmale’’, sort of minced meat rolled in sour cabbage leaves and served with polenta, ‘’tochitura’’, which is a kind of stew of pork meat and chopped potatoes combined with plenty of sauce made
with vegetables, herbs and spices, ‘’brânza de burduf’’, cheese of sheep milk, kept in leather bellows or wrapped in pinetree bark. Before eating, people are invited to have a small glass of ‘’ţuica’’, a traditional
alcoholic drink made of plums, to stimulate appetite, and during or after meal, a tasty fine wine made in the local vineyards, often over 5 years old wines, some of which are well known in Europe and even the
world.

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Romania is a country in Eastern Europe, about the size of UK without Wales.

Romania has a long and rich history, going back

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