In 1990, I left Bucharest with my backpack and my boots to work as a coal miner in the southern Carpathian Mountains ... a Czech-speaking village in Romania that was surrounded by small former ...

Most visits usually begin in Bucharest ... want to explore Romania's legendary nature and the iconic castles of Transylvania. Surrounded by the Southern Carpathian mountains, Transylvania is ...

I leave Bucharest for Romania’s rural attractions, making use of its very cheap but distinctly unhurried rail network. Transylvania, a forested region ringed by the Carpathian mountains ...

“Cold Mountain,” which began filming Monday in Potigrafu, marks Romania’s entry into the ... In Potigrafu, some 25 miles north of the capital, Bucharest, life hasn’t changed much for ...