Tag: Romania
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Bucharest voted amongst the top 14 most sparkling European cities you have to see at Christmas time
MSN has organized a top European cities that you have to see at Christmas time. Bucharest was chosen alongside Paris, Berlin and Budapest. This year Bucharest was was decorated with over 3 million tiny lightbulbs for the Christmas celebrations. The decorations were set up over 29 kilometres in 52 locations. MSN wrote Bucharest’s University Square…
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Sing-a-long Romanian carol concert in London to be organized next week
The wonderful month of December has started. In order to get in the mood, you can go to special carol concerts. This year, if you live in London, the Romanian Cultural Institute organizes a sing-a-long concert. The songs are performed by Oana Catalina Chitu, one of Romania’s most celebrated voices. She will be accompanied by…
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Mayor Irina Onescu: How a young woman has broken prejudices and changed a whole village
A young woman who used to work as an MTV veejay has become the mayor of a little commune in Arad. Although this story would determine some people to laugh, Irina Onescu has proved everyone that she is the best young mayor in Romania. Although she is young and inexperienced in politics she has done…
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82 year old couple run the Alba Iulia Union cross competition holding hands
Over 500 people have participated this weekend at the Union cross this weekend at the Alba Carolina citadel in Alba Iulia. Among the runners there was also an elderly couple, both of 82 years of age, that ran the whole 2,7 kilometres while holding hands. They have been together for 56 years and they both…
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4,000 volunteers plant over 90,000 trees across Romania in one day
Volunteers have planted over 70,ooo trees in 7 counties of Romania. This huge tree planting has been done within the campaign ” We plant good deeds for Romania”. The planting took place on November 19 in 7 out of 9 planned counties. The planting in Harghita took place on November 12 and the one in…
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The muddy volcanoes from Forocici to become touristic attraction
The muddy volcanoes in the area of Forocici commune will be soon considered of touristic value and will be included in touristic guides that lead tourist through the area of Banat. The volcanoes are considered a monument of nature and the area is called ” the hell’s mouth”. Teodora Mot, a history phd student at…
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Romanian-American couple who moved to Maramures:”We love Romanians’ willingness to give and help”
After travelling the world, spending time in the US, UK and Hungary, a Romanian-American couple has moved to Maramures in search for a simple life. Here, in the beautiful village of Breb, Cheryl and Roland have gotten closer to nature, they have started to create their own clothes and shoes and they are documenting it all…
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Romanian business women celebrated at Entrepreneurship Gala
Romanian women were awarded yesterday during the Beauty of Entrepreneurship 2016 gala. Business women were congratulated for their courage and their success in the business world. The winners were: Paula Dobrescu who founded Business Travel, Cori Gramescu, who owns LadyFitGym and Amalia Iscu who owns Tango Tangent. Other awards were also given to Magda Bei,…
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Charitable ball organised by college to raise scholarship money for students
A college from Romania is raising money to offer scholarships to exceptional students. Transylvania College from Cluj-Napoca, a school that teaches Romanian curriculum and also Cambridge curriculum organises a Scholarship Society ball. The school hopes to raise over 50,000 euros, money that represent 60% of the money needed for 10 scholarships for students with exceptional…
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Young man from Satu Mare organises campaign to help the homeless during the winter season
A young man from Satu Mare has started a campaign in order to help the homeless. Florin Brindusan has appealed to local people and to anyone willing to help to bring food and hot drinks. The young man posted his appeal on his Facebook page and people seem to respond to it. He wrote on…
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