Romania Stories

No more Valentine’s Day, just Dragobete

By |2018-06-04T19:26:05+00:00February 10th, 2015|Culture, Festivals, Music, Traditions, Villages|

No more Valentine's Day, just Dragobete Dragobete – How to celebrate love in Romanian style Dragobete is the Romanian counterpart of St. Valentine. On 24th of February in Romania love and the beginning of spring are celebrated. Dragobete is a Dacian celebration with pagan roots. Dragobete is a mythological deity [...]

Sanziene celebration or how people still believe in magical practices

By |2018-06-04T19:26:05+00:00February 9th, 2015|Culture, Festivals, Nature, Traditions, Villages|

Sanziene celebration or how people still believe in magical practices Sanziene, the magical celebration, the beginning of summer Sanziene is celebrated in Romania every year on 24th of June. Although it is associated with the Birth of Saint John the Baptist, Sanziene is a pagan celebration which origins in an [...]

Rucar-Bran Passage – traditional Romania

By |2018-06-04T19:26:08+00:00January 21st, 2015|Uncategorized|

Rucar-Bran Passage – a fairytale place – traditional Romania Traditional Romania is a wonder, something that have the power to inspire Exactly in the last day of the year we decided to go on a trip to Rucar-Bran passage. Something inside us was yearning for traditional Romania. It was yearning [...]

Why Pure? – a project about inspiration

By |2018-06-04T19:26:08+00:00November 25th, 2014|Culture, Nature, Photography, Traditions, Villages|

For us Romania means inspiration. Here at Pure Romania we try to bring inspiration for the tourists through the experiences that we build for them on this generous land which is Romania. For the project “Why pure?” we made a selection of inspirational moments that we have lived during the [...]

Interview with the South Korean Family that had a traditional wedding in Romania

By |2018-06-04T19:26:09+00:00November 12th, 2014|Culture, Fashion, Festivals, Mountains, Music, Nature, Photography, Traditions, Villages|

Pure Romania organized a traditional wedding for a very beautiful couple from South Koreea (living in New York) in September. It was one of the best experiences of the Pure Romania team. The event took place in Corbi Village, Arges County. We brought to life some very old Romanian traditions [...]

Golden roads gilded by autumn

By |2018-06-04T19:26:10+00:00October 15th, 2014|Culture, Mountains, Nature, Photography, Traditions, Villages|

Golden roads gilded by autumn Peles, Pelisor, Bran, Rasnov, Brasov I was in a one day trip from Bucharest to Brasov this Sunday. I went to Peles, Pelisor, to Bran, to Rasnov and to Brasov. It was one of the most beautiful trips in this area this year. The reason [...]

Free tours in Romania

By |2018-06-04T19:26:11+00:00October 3rd, 2014|Mountains, Nature, Photography, Sport|

Free tours in Romania September Pure Romania Free Tour We began this project "Free tours in Romania" in order to promote Romania as touristic destination. There are a number of special places which the tourist do not know or ignore because of the lack of information. We try through these free [...]

A South Korean couple living in New York had a traditional wedding in Romania

By |2018-06-04T19:26:11+00:00September 15th, 2014|Culture, Mountains, Music, Traditions, Villages|

Reviving old traditions in Pure Romania – traditional wedding  Traditional wedding in Corbi Village, Arges County, Romania  At the beginning of the autumn, on 2nd of September a young couple of South Koreans, settled in New York, got married in a traditional Romanian wedding as was made hundred of years [...]

Trail running in Romania

By |2018-06-04T19:26:12+00:00July 10th, 2014|Mountains, Nature, Photography, Sport|

Trail running in Romania Retezat Trail Race 2014  ….   a story about mountains and trail running, a story about smiles  Beginnings….. I remember even now - I was seven years old, my father and I had left only for a while from Pestera Cottage (Bucegi Mounatins, Romania) and we were [...]

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