1. First National Meeting
31st March-3rd April

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3. Traditions
Feasts
 Winter feasts 24 December -> 7 January
Childrens go from house to house singing beautiful Christmas
Carols, often with a large star made of coloured glossy paper,
singing and celebrating the Christ's birth.
Also in some parts of the country people respect the
old customs and use masks and costumes imitating
animals to celebrate winter.
 Mărţişor 1st of March
is the celebration of spring. Popular tradition:
amulets with red-white thread are offered to women
to were them for a few days, and after that they have
to be put in flourished trees.
 Easter - holiday without a fix date – usually one week after the
Catholic Easter.
Religious tradition: special foods are prepared – especially using
lamb and eggs are painted. The colors that are used are red, yellow,
blue, green and black. The most important is red which symbolizes,
Jesus’ blood when He was crucified.

4. The Romanian cuisine is a diverse blend of
different dishes from several traditions which came
into contact but it also maintained its own
Food
character. It has been greatly influenced by Turkish
cuisine, while it also includes influences from the
cuisines of other neighbours, such as
Germans, Serbians and Hungarians.
Romanian traditional foods heavily feature
meat. Cabbage rolls, sausages, and stews (like
tocanita) are popular main dishes. Quite different
types of dishes are sometimes included under a
generic term; for example, the category ciorba
includes a wide range of soups with a characteristic
sour taste.

5.  Sibiu - European capital of culture 2007
Known in German as Hermannstadt, Sibiu has
always been the centre of Romania's German
minority since medieval times. Even today, it
contains Romania's largest German community,
and, due to initiatives by the local government,
the Germanic feel of the area has been
maintained.
Sibiu is known as a city of art and culture. There
you can visit numerous cultural monuments, a
diversity of museums, and famous artistic and Places
cultural events. This attracting atmosphere has
been created for residents and visitors who have
the opportunity to experience cultural life in this
Transylvanian city.
 Bran Castle, situated between the Bucegi
and Piatra Craiului Mountains, 30 km far from
Brasov, is the only touristic point that attracts
hundreds of thousands of tourists because of a
legend: Count Dracula’s Legend. Its narrow
corridors constitute a mysterious labyrinth of
ghostly nooks and secret chambers easy to hide
a "vampire" but of course there is no proof and
Vlad Tepes lived only for a short time in the
castle and only as a guest. What is really true is
that Bran Castle conjures up the perfect Gothic
fairy-tale image of a Transylvanian castle.

6.  The Danube
Is the only river on Earth that passes through
10 countries (Germany, Austria, Slovakia,
Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, the
Republic of Moldova, Ukraine) and four capitals
(Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade),
being the only delta in the world that is
declared a Biosphere Reserve.
The Danube Delta has the third largest
biodiversity in the world. Here you can find
pelicans, duks, different fishes, lilies etc. Places
 Targu Jiu -> Sculptor Constantin
Brancusi
The Table of Silence, The Kiss Gate and the
Endless Column – these are the three sculptural
components from Targu-Jiu, made by Constantin
Brancusi, which constitutes an homage to the
hero soldiers fallen during the First World War.
The initiative of achieving this ensemble
belonged to Aretia Tatarascu, in 1937.

7. If we were to talk about the
Romanian lifestyle we would have to take
into account the difference between rural
customs and the ones representative for
towns and cities. In fact, traditions have
been mainly kept vivid in villages.
Technology has taken over and people
have sometimes forgotten their roots.
Living in the city brings about a
Lifestyle
new perspective on enjoying and
regarding the old traditions. They
have not lost their meaning but
changed their appearance. Towns
are alive not only in the holiday
period but also during the rest of the
year. Week-ends are the times when
people escape from every-day duties
and manage to have fun, whatever
their social status.
Clubs are always full of young
people, who also take part in special
events, because the Romanians are
very warm and lively people. Most
of us leave the towns for a picnic or
a barbeque on Saturdays and
Sundays.This is a general
characteristic of our Latin country
and its lifestyle.

8. 1. Ioan Cantacuzino has discovered the cure (which had been relevant) in
the treatment of cholera, epidemic typhus, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever?
2. Lazăr Edeleanu was the first chemist to synthesize
amphetamine.
3. The Romanian doctor Nicolae Paulescu discovered the insulin and he was
the first to published the result of his reaserch in France.The two canadians
Banting and Best admited they knew about Paulescu's discovery.
4.Emil Racoviţa he is the founder of biospeleology.
5.Aurel Vlaicu built the first arrow-shaped airplane.
6. Henri Coanda was a Romanian inventor, a pioneer inaerodynamics
and the builder of world’s first jet plane. He discovered and gave his
name to the Coanda effect.
7. Stefan Odobleja is the „father”of cybernetics.
8. Romania's Danube Delta is a World Heritage site and is the second
largest delta in the whole of Europe.

9. 9. Gheorghe Marinescu, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in
Bucharest, was the first person to see living nervous cells with a
microscope
10. Irish author Bram Stoker based his horror novel ‘Dracula’ on the
fifteenth century Wallachian Prince, Vlad Dracul of Romania.
11. Nadia Comaneci - the first gymnast in history of this sport who
obtained a perfect 10.00 in 1976 in Montreal at the Ollympic Games.
The Computer was not prepared for such experience, so all world
saw "1.00" on the screen!
12. The fountain pen was invented by the Romanian Petrache Poenaru -
he was student in Paris...
13. The Danube, which is the longest international river in Europe,
empties into the Black Sea at the Romanian coast.
14 .Bucharest's Palace of the People is the world's largest and most
expensive civil administration building in the world, according to the
World Records Academy.
15. Mircea Eliade, 79, a world authority on the history of religions w
helped to establish the discipline in the United States as a professor
the University of Chicago
16. The only “Happy Graveyard” in the world is „Cimitirul Vesel”. It may
sound strange, but this place really exists. It is placed in the village of
Sapanta, Maramures County, România. The graves have a picture
representing the dead person in a very important moment or a very
usual moment of their life. On the grave there are carved the lasts words
the dead wanted his friends wanted to know and usualy these lasts
words have a sense of humor.

10. JADE Romania's team is
waiting for you in
Bucharest to find out more
about Romania!
31st March-3rd April
First National Meeting