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In County Prahova

Royal Peleş Castle 
in the Royal Domain
at Sinaia


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Sinaia in County Prahova
County Prahova is in the Muntenia region

Sizzling Sinaia!

The Royal buzz is hard to miss in this winter ski resort and summer wonderland, full of jetsetters from Germany and the UK, flocking to the the Royal Domain with it's castles and chateaux.

Whilst not as popular as Buşteni with Romania's own burgeoning middle class, Sinaia is the closest full-service mountain resort to Bucharest.  Just two hours away by car or train with frequent services in all classes.   Read more in the Sinaia Transportation section below

 Reserves and Preserves

 Sinaia’s reason for being is surely the stunning surrounds as gateway to the Prahova valley. 

As home to Romania’s Royal residence for over a century, Sinaia has always had strict laws to maintain it’s beauty, with the felling of trees or even picking the tempting flowers, from peonies, and Edelweiss to the golden gentian, are long forbidden.  

The Bucegi National Park

In addition to tracts of dense fir and spruce forest, Sinaia is blessed with the spectacular Bucegi Natural Park, which surrounds the valley on the western side, covering a total area of   

Golden Peak (Vârful cu Dor), the Ant (Furnica), and Burnt Rock (Piatra Arsă) all feature prominently on the mountain skyline.   Read about the Bucegi National Park here

 Between Two Worlds

Sinaia is situated in the Prahova river valley which climbs up into the Carpathians which form the border between Wallachia and Transilvania.
Read more in our Sinaia Geography section
Just past the Wallachian foothills and well into the Bucegi mountains, Sinaia has long been on the main trade route coming out of Braşov down to Bucharest and the rich alluvial plains below.

Romania's Royals, King Mihai I and Daughter and Heir to the throne, Princess MargaretRomania's Royal Family

He is one of only two of Europe's monarchs on the throne during WWII and today.  HM King Michael I returned to Romania after the Revolution in 1989, and lives primarily at Pelişor castle in Sinaia.

Read more about the Royal Residence below, and about the King and the Communists in History.
Sinia has been home to Romanian royalty for over a century, the serene beauty of the location having captured the heart of Romania's first King.
Daughter HRH The Princess Margarita of Romania has been named as heir to the throne, thanks to recent liberalisation of the laws of succession.  She and husband HRH Radu, Prince of Romania represent the fifth generation of Romanian royalty. 
Map:  The cable car ride from Sinaia is beautiful, going up to 2000m on the Bucegi Plateau
Use the scrollbars to see the full area around Sinaia, and click on any Feature to see more info!
The Royal Train Station
Dignitaries and now common people alike have been received at these stately monuments, built in 1913 and 1939.
The Sinaia Park Statues

Arriving in Sinaia

Sinaia’s unique attractions are conveniently arranged in a gentle line wending it’s way up from the valley floor where the river, road and rail lines run. 

If you have sensibly hired a nice Romanian guy to drive you for your Romanian tour, you can have him park at the train station, or if you are equally sensibly using the train to get around Romania, you’ll be delivered to the right spot.  
Even if you’re only in Sinaia for a matter of an hour or two on your way to Braşov or Bucharest, the park and buildings near the train station hold enough interest to make your stop worthwhile.

The Royal Train Station

Sinaia’s train station was built in 1913, and whilst similar to the one in Buşteni, is a bit more delicate. 

Due to Sinaia’s Royal connections, both the Simplon Orient Express and the Arlberg Orient Express from Calais and Paris stopped here on their way to Bucharest (then known as “Little Paris”).  The original station was built in 1913, with an additional Neo-Romanian style Royal station added in 1939, adjoining just 10 metres away.

Both of the buildings were where Europe’s royalty and dignitaries were hosted by 20th-century Romanian Kings (Ferdinand I, Carol II and Mihai I), and where U.S. President Ford was received by Ceauşescu in 1975.  

Don’t miss the mural of the mistress of the hunt in the main station salon, depicting a life-size scene with Prince Basarab from the 14th century.
After WWII, service continued in various forms until 1992, with the Orient Express today terminating in Vienna.   See more on our Romanian Rail Services page now.
There is still a great square opposite the station which once hosted the arrival and departure ceremonies befitting great heads of state, sadly also used by the Nazis during WWII for their little marches and rallies.

The Dimitrie Ghica Park

Just up from the train stations is the Dimitre Ghica park, with all the expected park amenities from fountains and benches, and also a unique collection of statues commemorating historical figures important to Sinaia and Romania. 

The park is home of the Prahova Natural Sciences museum.  Surrounded by parklands created in 1881, the county museum is housed in a fabulous Brâncoveanu style building.  You will have seen examples of these around Bucharest, but this one is truly iconic.

The Brâncoveanu Effect

Brâncoveanu was a Wallachian prince who oversaw a rich period of cultural growth in the late 1600s in Wallachia, including this signature architecture which is a successful and distinctive mix of Renaissance and Byzantine influences, known today as the Brâcoveanu style of architecture.   
Featuring columns and arches along walkways, balconies, loggias, and verandas, the look is charming on large and small scales, and remains one of Romania’s most pleasing contributions to the world of architecture.

The Bucegi Reserve Collection The museum is open 9am – 7pm Tues – Sun

In addition to photos of the building itself, inside you’ll find a section on the Bucegi Reserve, with collections of flora and fauna of the Bucegi mountains.  The museum plays a very important role in preserving and cataloguing many of the endangered and critical species from the nearby mountains, where new strictly controlled reservations preserve areas of significance.   There is also a temporary display room for touring exhibits. 
The Casino at Sinaia
Thankfully still in use today, the younger set can find some games here to spend time while the oldies investigate the Sinaia Monastery museum up the hill!

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The Fallen Eagle
At the entrance to the cemetery, the great Romanian Eagle spreads it's wings to protect the war dead, with a dedication to 1916-18 heroes who fell during the invasion by Austrian and German forces down through the Prahova valley, seizing 80% of Romania. 
Read more on WWI and Sinaia here

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The Sinaia Casino

Just up from the museum is another of the crown jewels of Sinaia architecture, the Royal Casino, designed and building supervised by the architect Petre Antonescu under decree by Romania’s King Carol I. 

 The casino was indeed well managed, with the main shareholding being the same Baronet de Marcay who was also with the Casino of Monte Carlo.  It opened along with the train station in 1913, and is another prime photo opportunity, set so calmly in it’s surrounding parkland. 
The Casino today is home to conferences and international events, and houses exhibits from time to time for modern arts, photography and crafts, so check in to see if there is an exhibit on.   The younger crowd can also find billiards tables and games here to while away their time whilst parents enjoy a museum or two!  

The American War Memorial

You never know when those Americans will show up unexpectedly, and south of Sinaia, the Yanks rained down bombs from the skies in their attempt to thwart the Nazi occupation and oil production during WWII.  

Ironically, the Romania's military was larger than America's before the USA entered the war in 1941. 
The memorial in the military cemetery up from the Casino is dedicated to “Operation Tidalwave”, the ambitious August 1943 bombing campaign by the U.S. Army Air Force.   B-24 Liberator crewmembers flew from Benghazi in north Africa in the first large-scale, low-altitude attack.  It was also then the longest distance air crews had ever travelled to reach a strike zone. 
The bombers managed to swoop in at low altitude runs to drop over 250 tonnes of ordinance in their bid to rob the Germans of their single largest source of oil (by 1941) which came out of the oil refineries at the industrial centre of Ploieşti, about an hour from Sinaia. 
 

Peleş Castle, American Infirmary

Peleş castle was home to many recuperating American airmen recovered after Operation Tidal Wave, with young King Mihai thanking the Americans for not bombing the civilian population (the low level bombing at Ploiesti was tightly targeted on pipelines, cracking towers and means of production only).
Americans also helped Romania in July 1944, with P51 Mustangs and P38 Lightnings swooping in to strafe the Nazi airfields northeast of Ploieşti at Bacău and Zilistea.  Bacău remains a major airport to this day, despite the efforts of the cousins across the pond.

Sinaia Monastery:  The Pearl of the Carpathians

Whilst you may think you’ve had your fill of monasteries in Romania, it’s undeniable that each on has it’s own particular charms. 

The Sinaia monastery is indeed the “pearl of the Carpathians”, being the first structure built in this part of the Prahova Valley, and today is indeed the cathedral of the majestic Bucegi mountains. 
Mural with King Carol I
Commemorating the ascension to the throne of Romania's first monarch on the walls of the Big Church at the Sinaia Monastery

In addition to it’s thoroughly charming yet authentic Brâncoveanu style, built in 1690, the Sinaia monastery has two Last Testament friezes, one originally built in the older part, and a newer one from the mid 1800s (arguably a bit more photogenic at least).   Originally built to serve just 12 monks (the number of the apostles of Jesus), it expanded steadily as the importance of the town and trade route grew.  

The Little Church

The Little Church at the monastery was founded at the behest of Mihai Cantacuzino in 1695, giving the church and the community it’s present-day name of Sinaia, after the Sinai mountains he’d seen on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Nazareth.   According to an inscription in Slavonic (the old church language) over a doorway, the church is dedicated to Saint Sava of Palestine.   The tableaux inside were painted by the famous painter Parvu Mutu.  
Occupied in the late 1700s by the Austro-Hungarian empire (who did not share the Orthodox faith), the monastery became a military camp for 400 soldiers who tried unsuccessfully to defend the position from the Ottoman Turks, who slaughtered the soldiers and took the monastery as an administrative headquarters.

The Big Church

The Big Church was build under the abbots Ioasaf (Joseph) and Paisie for three years until 1846 under the local lord Bibescu Voda, and was the first church to use electric lighting in Romania.   
As with the museum down the hill, the Brâncoveanu style is in full flourish here, with the columns sculpted and adorned with floral and vegetal motifs, with the same type of ornamentation found along the window frames and door lentils.
Open Daily, 1E entry donation
The monks here are usually dressed in traditional garb, and are a bit of fun to talk with if you can find one confident with English (many also speak German, a few French). 

The Sinaia Monastery Museum

The Sinaia Monastery Museum was the first religious museum in the country, constructed initially to temporarily house the royals as they built their Royal Domain just up the hill from the monastery in 1895, which also coincided with the bicentenary of the monastery. 

The museum today comprises two halls with a great map of County Prahova in the first one showing the influences of the Cantacuzo family, along with a sketch of the Traian Column, engravings showing the monastery through time, an epitaph in Archaic Romanian embroidered in gold and silver thread on silk, vestments of the clergy from centuries past, gold leaf illustrations in old books, Romania’s first printed bible, as well as money and other artefacts used at the monastery over the last 415 years.
  The second hall has Romanian and Russian icons depicting St. Nicholas and St. Sergei, gifts from Czar Nicholas II.    There are also four portaits of Pirvu Mutu (the painter), and various books and other churchly objects.

Sinaia Belfry Tower

Adjacent, the Belfry Tower of Sinaia went up in 1892, with a bell taken from the Coltea tower in Bucharest, which was cast in 1775, and re-cast again in 1914, singing out today with 1700kg of ringing power.
 

Peleş

 

 

The Royal Castle Peleş

Peleş Castle is the crowning glory of the Royal Peleş Domain at Sinaia.

The Royal House of Romania has the smaller and decidedly more habitable Peleşor castle as it's official residence, with the Foişor hunting lodge hosting state events and as accommodation for visiting dignitaries. 
Following the wishes of His Majesty King Mihai I, most of both Peleş and Peleşor will remain functioning museums through 2010. 
Read more below on Peleş Castle
 


Peleş Castle
with with superb
views across
the Prahova Valley
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Building Peleş

Staying overnight at the Sinaia Monastery in 1866, Romania’s future King Carol I fell in love with the peaceful valley, which reminded him very much of his homeland (Carol was Prince Carol of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen at the time). 
He never forgot the site, and in 1872 bought and commissioned a German architect, Wilhelm Doderer, to design his future summer palace in the mountains.

Peleşor Today

All on the Royal Domain:

Barracks, mess and administrative offices for the Royal Guards were built nearby as were the Royal Mews for the dozens of horses needed for the estate.
 A commissary store (“economat”)  was stocked to provision estate workers with dry goods and personal requisites.  
The castle continued to grow and change between it’s first official completion date in 1883, and it’s final form as today which was largely realised by 1914, by then under the auspices of the Czech architect Karel Liman. 
The charming little “Spout House” (“Vila Şipot”) was also designed and built by Karel Liman, the Czech architect, after the main castle and outbuildings were completed.  Once the site of a forceful little natural spring found to proudly spout out year-round, Spout House is today a hotel, offering reasonable rates to travellers wanting a slice of history with their stay in Sinaia.

Romania's Royal Domain

It looks like a castle from a book your grandmother would have read you, and the fabulously ornate fairy-tale castle looks very much like Disney designed it!

Frankly, on your first view as you come through the Royal Domain (the estate and parklands), it’s impossible not to grin as you realise that this castle is for-real, and you are here to witness this spectacle which speaks far more to the Saxon ancestry of nearby Transilvania than the more Romanian styles of the nearby monastery.
Nonetheless, Peleş is still a Romanian Royal castle, and features wide Italian Renaissance-style terraces, studded with fountains, statues, decorated columns, and more rococo features which hint at the far more diverse styles used in the interior.

The Rooms of Queen Elizabeth

Romania’s first Queen, Elisabeta, wife of King Carol I was responsible for the ornate and lavish décor across 160 rooms.   Favouring split walnut veneers, crystal, ivory and ebony, leathers, fine silks, and a myriad of inlays and trim work, to say the interiors of her castle Peleş are lush is an understatement.
Whilst largely under the umbrella of the German Renaissance movement, the interiors borrow heavily here and there from English, Rococo and Baroque styles, resulting in a deliriously fun and sometimes whimsical effect, reflecting the diverse tastes of the Queen.
Your English-speaking guide will host your tour through 16 of the best rooms in the palace.
If you think you can guess what is around the corner at Peleş, you’d be sorely mistaken, for a left turn can mean stepping into an Alhambra-like Moorish grand hall, and a right can mean falling into one of two rooms dedicated to Venice, complete with fairly outlandish chandeliers and furnishings.
Amongst the don’t-miss rooms include the Hall of Honour, with it’s rich walnut panelling, complete with the requisite family coats of arms and regalia.   The Arms Galleries, Council Chamber, and Old Music Room offer interesting insights into court life in the early 1900s.    Delight too in the Turkish Room, the Banqueting Hall, the Theatre, Concert Hall, and the Stairway of Honour, amongst some great passageways, views and endless antiques and furniture.

Little Pelişor Castle

King Carol and Queen Elisabeta lived in Peleş and their heir, the Prince Ferdinand and his English-born consort, the Princess Marie, lived in Peleşor castle (“Little Peleş”), just up the hill in the Royal Domain. 

Really, it’s not that little, and having been built a couple of decades later (ground broke in 1899), it had a few more of the modern conveniences and a more cohesive interior design scheme, with Tiffany and Lalique dotting the largely art nouveau and arts and crafts interior, despite the more staid German Renaissance exteriors (to better match it’s bigger namesake down the hill presumably). 
Peleşor is destined to remain open until 2010, although it is now the Royal Residence of King Mihai I of Romania. 

The Foişor Hunting Lodge

Indeed a bit more cosy than the castle, Foişor was first a hunting lodge for the royals but quickly became a residence for relatives. 

In 1914, because home to Queen Elisabeta and her children when her son Ferdinand moved down to Peleş when he ascended the throne.  
Queen Elena was already pregnant when she first decorated Foişor  in the 1920s as she and Ferdinand’s son Carol too moved into the little chateau, where they remained until he ascended the throne in 1930.  Today’s gardens and parkland around Foişor are at least partly due to Queen Elena’s fine efforts to redesign and remodel the grounds. 
The current King of the Romanians, Mihai I was born at Foişor to his mother the Crown Princess Elena (of Greece) and his father, Prince Carol, at the time son of King Ferdinand I.  
You can admire the lodge from the surrounding parklands on the Royal Domain, which are open to the public Wednesdays to Sundays until 4pm. 

 The Royal Peleş Domain

The Royal Peleş Domain, comprised of the Peleş, Peleşor, and Foişor castles, were returned to the Royal House in early March 2007, after being "looked after" for 60 years by the Romanian government.

In fact, the entire Domain was appropriated by the then-Communist government in 1947 when they forced His Majesty King Mihai I to leave the country. 
These old castles are monuments to Romania's regal history, testaments to the 140 years since Carol I ascended the throne of Romania, proclaiming a sovereign state on May 10, 1866; and 125 years since the declaration of the Kingdom of Romania by King Carol I on May 10, 1881.

The Royal House of Romania has Peleşor castle as it's official residence.  

The King formally offered return the main tourist draw, Peleş castle to the state (the government had the right of first refusal anyways according to their 2001 legislation).   The older part of Foişor remains a protocol residence (used by the Government for state events and accommodation of visiting dignitaries). 
Additional areas at Ceramica and Stavilari under the auspices of the board of Sinaia European Culture Centre were also returned in early 2007.   Following the wishes of His Majesty, most of both Peleş and Peleşor will remain functioning museums through 2010. 
 

The Royal House Today

The Royal House of Romania, through it's visits, agenda, and participation in events domestically and throughout Europe, actively embodies and symbolizes Romania's obligation to Europe as well as the nation's traditions, stability and continuity.

 Princess Margarita

First as Her Serene Highness Margarita, Princess of Hohenzollern, and now Her Royal Highness The Princess Margarita of Romania, she is the eldest daughter of The King and of the Queen Consort, Anne of Bourbon-Parma (Ana). HRH The Princess Margarita is 82nd in line of succession for the British throne and, by Royal House Law, heir to the leadership of the Royal Family.  With no children, her sister Princess Elena of Romania is next in line for the throne.  
However, since the royal constitution of 1923 only provided for male heirs, the Romanian Parliament will eventually need to amend that law to codify the King's decision for his eldest daughter to assume the Romanian throne when the monarchy is formally restored by Parliament.

The Restoration

HRH Radu, Prince of Romania
HRH The Princess Margarita of Romania
The fifth generation of Romanian royalty continue to serve all Romanians as special representatives.

 
The Enescu Memorial House
Home to Enescu and Yehudi Menuhin, one of his many famous pupils at his Sinaia home.

Photo: The Sinaia Mayoralty
Family Fun in the Sinaia Snow

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The View from Cota 2000

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The Old Women
This famous formation, the "Babele" feature prominently on the escarpment slopes above Sinaia.
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As with so many of the royal houses of Europe, Romania's Royal House had it's share of challenges through two world wars, occupation by both Nazi and communist governments, as well as the instability of multi-party coalition governments. 

It should be noted that King Mihai is one of only two surviving European monarchs still alive, who reigned during WWII.  Whilst the king was forced to leave Romania, there was never an official abdication, as no heir and successor was ever crowned.

Romania's Royalty, Popular and Reserved

Whilst the monarchy in Romania is universally popular from a standpoint of national pride -- the Royal House did after all manage to survive in exile through the sad communist years -- the in-built mistrust of any form of authority makes a full-fledged resumption of traditional royal institutions and habits less appealing to the populace in general.
With ambivalence on many matters, the Royal House has taken a steady and cautious approach to regaining stature, respect and even adoration from the Romanian population, which likewise is recovering from decades (some say centuries) of abuse by it's own rulers.
The current heir to throne (King Mihai's supposed abdication under the communists was well outside the Romanian constitution; even if Mihai had abdicated legally, a succession legally should have taken place), HRH Radu, Prince of Romania, was born in 1960 in Iasi, and is husband of HRH The Princess Margarita of Romania. 
More on the Royal Family Here

Romania's Violinist

Americans are surprised sometimes to learn their primo violinist, Yehudi Menuhin once had a rather famous Romanian tutor!

Menuhin studied in Sinaia, and refined much of his art under the kind tutelage of Romania's George Enescu, who conducted at the New York Philharmonic orchestra in the late 1930s.  
The Enescu Memorial House, the Villa "Luminis", is just north of Sinaia, and well worth a look.  The comfortable villa has great views of the mountains, and is crammed full of fabulous furniture, his piano and countless photos and artifacts from his great career. 

The house itself was built in the 1920s and is a real gem of Romania architecture of the period, with Turkish and Brâncovean influences. 

You'll fall in love with the man and his music as you tour this time capsule of culture!  Enesecu was a keen friend of Romania's Queen Marie, and he married a friend of hers, Maria  Rosetti, who had married into the Cantacuzino dynasty, gaining Enescu the use of the city palace in Bucharest as well.   Lucky guy!
The house itself is north from the train station about 5 minutes, in the Campetu quarter, the only part of Sinaia which is on the eastern side of the Prahova River. 
 

SKI TIME!

Romania’s Aspen

The reason Americans refer to Sinaia as Romania’s Aspen is mostly due to the celebrity factor here. 

With it’s proximity to Bucharest (and hence, the international airport), as well as it’s stunning beauty and royal residence, Sinaia is a natural choice for the discerning fun-seeker.
A uniform layer of snow is deposited usually in November and it melts from March to April, sometimes at the beginning of May. The thickness of the snow layer varies between 20 centimeters and 3 meters in higher elevations.

Apres-ski is it’s own little industry in Sinaia, which puts quality before quantity in the overall experience.

Due to the annual winter influx of Germans, quite a few restaurants offer reasonable German fare on top of the myriad of Romanian cuisine restaurants.  Romania actually does sport it’s own “whole” cuisine, see our Food and Dining section for more information.
And of course, where you have Germans, you have beer, so there are good German pubs catering to this crowd, along with bars, the Blue Angel and Black Horse discos, as well as games places with billards, table tennis, video games, internet cafes, and all the requisites a resort town normally offers. 
If you would like to play roulette, blackjack, stud poker, or feel the need to have a go with a slot machine (or “pokie” as Australians say), head to the Casino Maxim, which has table gaming rooms open evenings (6pm – 3am, 5am Fri/Sat) for Euro players and local Lei players.

The Slopes of Sinaia

South from the train station and park, just up the hill from the market and town hall is the Hotel Montana, behind which you can catch the cable car up the mountain. 

The view from the end of this line (which is about 2/3 of the way up) is stupendous, and you can either continue on up, or take the very scenic trail back down (about 2 hours).
The looming Furnica Peak to the west of town has most of the runs and lifts on it, with 3 telecabinas (gondolas) going up to the level first, and then continuing on up to .   With total of pistes, and one run, Sinaia is well-developed and every bit as good as most of the resorts at Tahoe or Breckenridge, with an annual metre of snow on average. 
With mostly intermediate runs, Sinaia does have 3 difficult runs, “Carp”, “Papagal – Târle, and “1500” (using the Cota 1500 chair lift).   The Carp slope from Furnica Peak and Cota 1400 runs a cool down a healthy drop, great fun for experienced skiers. 

For a bit of fun, Sinaia also offers bobsledding runs (over a drop) complete with graded turns, running for .  

Even if you’re not up for a walk in the mountains, a stroll around some of the back streets of Sinaia show off the villas of the aristocracy from the early 1900s, and worth a few photos too. 
 

Read more about Skiing and Hiking in our Special Bucegi Natural Park Section

For more great things to do, see also County Prahova and the Muntenia region

 
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Mervani Travel, B-dul Ferdinand Hotel Paltinis, cam.506 - 507 in Sinaia
+40 (244) 311200  FAX: +40 (244) 311211 
Mervani Travel, B-dul Ferdinand nr.4 in Sinaia
+40 (244) 312763  FAX: +40 (244) 311211 
Sinaia, Bd. Carol I, nr.8 (Hotel Sinaia) in Sinaia
+40 (244) 430290  FAX: +40 (244) 311898 
Sinaia, Bd. Carol I, nr.8 (Hotel Sinaia) in Sinaia
+40 (244) 430290  FAX: +40 (244) 311898 
International, Str. Avram Iancu nr.1 in Sinaia
+40 (244) 311399  FAX: +40 (244) 310470 
Cladis Tour, Bd Republicii nr.29 in Sinaia
+40 (244) 311896  FAX: +40 (244) 311896 
Sipesin Turism, Str. Avram Iancu, nr.14 in Sinaia
 +40 (244) 312667  FAX: +40 (244) 312667 
Palace, Str. Octavian Goga nr.11 in Sinaia
 +40 (244) 311542  FAX: +40 (244) 310625 
Alca Tour, Bd Carol I, Nr. 27 in Sinaia
 +40 (244) 311 910  FAX: +40 (244) 311 910 
Artmedia Group Travel, Str. Octavian Goga nr.11 in Sinaia
 +40 (244) 310692  FAX: +40 (244) 310692 
Artmedia Group Travel, Str. Octavian Goga nr.11 in Sinaia
 +40 (244) 310692  FAX: +40 (244) 310692 
Luxor, Bd. Carol I, nr.22 in Sinaia
 +40 (244) 314124  FAX: +40 (244) 314051

 

 

 

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Geography

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Wallachia or Transylvania?  

Since the 1300s, the administrative capitals of Romania have migrated from the mountains, to the foothills and slowly down to the great Wallachian plain, where Bucharest is today.

Sinaia, nestled firmly on the southern edge of the mountains, perches high enough to avoid the worst of the summer heat, and low down enough to avoid the heaviest snowfalls in winter.  

 Whilst administratively part of Wallachia, and the last northern outpost of Wallachian culture and history, Sinaia cannot help but be influenced the equally rich Transilvanian culture just up the valley.