Do you know that….

• Bucharest is the capital of Romania

• Our flag is formed by three colors: red, yellow and blue.

• The main language is Romanian.

• Romanian currency is called <LEU> ?

Romania, a country of wonderful

places with palaces, castles, and monuments of

art

Bran Castle

The Council Tower-Sibiu

Palace of Parliament, Bucharest(Palatul Parlamentului)

The Arch of Triumph

was build to celebrate the victory of Romania in the First World War

The Athenaeum from Bucharest

Peleş Castle, Sinaia

Sighişoara

Braşov From White Tower

Braşov Council Square

Romania, a country with Carpathians Mountains,

rivers and lakes

Toaca peak (1900 m) – DurăuCarpathians Mountains

Bâlea Lake

Red lake

Bears Cave

Meduse from the Black Sea

Romania, a countrywith the

BLACK SEA

Constanţa, Mamaia on the Black Sea

The Black Sea forms the border on 245 km

Casino in

Constanta

Romania, a countrywith

wonderfulDANUBE DELTA

sturgeon on the Danube near the Iron Gates

Swan from Danube Delta

Romania,a country with

picturesque MONASTERIES

andauthentic customs

Putna Monastery

Barsana Monastery

Transylvanian Brandy Jug

(Oas)

Romanian ceramic saucers

Romania, a countrywith

picturesque landscapesand

a rich spiritual people

TTraditional costumesraditional costumes

• The costumes are different from city to another.

• Now the only people wearing the costumes are the traditional dancers and singers.

Famous Famous romanian romanian peoplepeople Scientists

• Nicolae Paulescu has discovered the insulin.• Henri Coanda has invented the jet plane

engine• George Emil Palade, Nobel Prize in Physiology

and Medicine, for descovering the ribosomes

Artists

Constantin Brancusi is called

the Patriarch of Modern Sculpture.

• George Enescu, the greatest Romanian musician: composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.

Writers• EugenIonescu - Romanian and French

 playwright and dramatist, and one of the most famous playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd

• Mircea Eliade – first historian of religions;

fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at theUniversity of Chicago

• Emil Cioran –phylosopher and essayist.

THANK YOU!