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.
Babele
Saturday, December 23, 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.
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