Friday, December 29, 2006

Bran Castle in snow, December 2006


Bran Castle, situated near Braşov in Romania, is a national monument and landmark. It was built by the Teutonic Knights in (or around) 1212, after they had been relocated from Palestine to the Kingdom of Hungary.
Bran Castle was subsequently featured in multiple film adaptations of Dracula, and has informally become known as Dracula's Castle.

Brasov


A typical street in the old town of Brasov, Romania.

Babele


Babele (the old women) is a geomorphologyc monument, at 2200m altitude, close to the Caraiman Peak (2260m), in the Bucegi Mountains in Romania.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Peles Castle


Peles Castle, Sinaia, Romania. December 2006

Globalization


Piata Sfatului Square in Brasov, Romania. December 2006

Friday, December 1, 2006

An autumn morning in Cismigiu Garden, Bucharest, November 2006


The Cişmigiu Garden is a public park in the heart of Bucharest, Romania, the oldest and largest park (17 hectares) of the city center.
It was built in 1847 on land bequeathed to the city in 1845 by a Turkish water inspector, and designed by the German architect Carl F.W. Meyer.

The word cişmigiu comes from Turkish: a cişmea is a public fountain and a cişmigiu used to be the person responsible for building and maintaining public fountains.

Autumn colors, Cismigiu Garden, Bucharest, November 2006

Autumn leafs carpet, Cismigiu Garden, Bucharest, November 2006

Reading the morning news in Cismigiu Garden, Bucharest, November 2006