What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches – a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such ...

Twenty-five griffon vultures have arrived in Romania and were placed in an acclimatization aviary near the commune of Rucăr in Argeș county, marking the start of a long-term effort to reintroduce the ...

As far as travelers are concerned, Romania tends to get resigned to three fates: ignored, considered unsafe, or stereotyped because of Transylvania's bloodthirsty 15th-century madman Vlad the Impaler.

The first time I laid eyes on the impressive rock formations called sfinxul and babele (Romanian for “the sphinx” and “the old women” ), I was on a visit home during a college vacation. As my father ...

The bison had all but been driven out of Europe by hunting and the destruction of its habitats - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Alexander Zemlianichenko The bison had all ...