понедельник, 22 октября 2018 г.

Interesting facts about Romania

Interesting facts about Romania
         
1. Its official. Romania has the most beautiful waterfall in the world.
Bigar Cascade Falls in Caras-Severin it’s been voted as number one by The World Geography. It is unique because of its stunning beauty and the way the water falls.
2. Romania is the ninth largest wine producer in the world.
Illicaffe3. People that enjoy a good coffee will be surprised to know that Francesco Illy, the founder of Illycaffè was born in Timisoara, Romania in1892. He also invented the first automatic steam espresso coffee machine.
4. Timisoara became the first city of Europe to have electric street lighting in 1889.
5. The city of Brasov is home to the largest Gothic church between Vienna, Austria and Istanbul, Turkey.
6. The movie Cold Mountain was filmed on location in Romania.


7. The American mini-series “Hatfields & McCoys” starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton was filmed in Romania.
8. The Romanian language is 1,700 years old.
10. The Danube River flows 1,788 miles from its springs in Germany’s Black Forest to the Black Sea. Just before reaching the sea it forms the second largest and best preserved of Europe’s deltas: 2,200 square miles of rivers, canals, marshes, tree-fringed lakes and reed islands.
11. The name “Romania” comes from the Latin word “Romanus” which means “citizen of the Roman Empire.”
12. The Romanian Palace of Parliament in Bucharest is the second largest building in the world, next only to the Pentagon in the United States.
13. The Voronet Monastery in Moldavia is dubbed as the Romanian counterpart of the Sistine Chapel.
14. The first ever first perfect 10 in the Olympic Games was given to Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci. She bagged the score after her performance in Montreal, Canada in 1976.
15. Romania is Europe’s richest country in gold resources.
16. Romania’s Astra Museum in Sibiu is the second-largest outdoor museum in the world. It features more than 300 buildings as well as watermills and windmills, gigantic presses for wine, fruit and oil, hydraulic forges and more.
17. The Romanian “Merry Cemetery” of Sapanta, a tiny village in the Valley of Maramures is unlike any other cemetery in the world.