The area is extremely beautiful, and it lies from the beginning of Iezer Papua Mountains through the Rucar-Bran Passage ( between Bucegi an Piatra Craiului Mountains), an very old route which tied up Muntenia to Ardeal region
Climate is a temperate-continental one, with very long summers and cold winters
Acces:
· Predeal - Rasnov - Bran - Moeciu (ramificatie din DN1), aprox. 25 km
· DN73 Brasov - Bran - Moeciu, aprox.25 km
· Campulung - Rucar - Moeciu - Bran - Brasov (transmontan)
· DN Sibiu - Fagaras - Zarnesti – Bran
The Rucar Bran Passage(1254m), though reigned by the Bran Castle, which once functioned as a customs house, and today is the incarnation of Dracula’s legend(which yileds big profits from the westen nations), has a variety of interesting aspects.
An important tourist axis, this area is visited for its sensational karst shapes, its occupations, handicraft, traditions and gastronomy of the villages from Piatra Craiului and Bucegi Mountains.
“Mosia Branului”, the border guard between the Kingdom and the Empire, is a whole passage, nowadays scattered with houses and villas built according to the newest needs, but this doesn’t imply the fact that tourism is slowly erasing the authenticity of the area.For those who want an encounter with tradition, villagers and the owners of pensions and hotels make ethnographic trips, presenting the local occupations (sheep farming, washing of the wool, wood carving, manufacture of cheese, painting and decorating eggs, masks/dolls, glass icons, sheepskin works, weaving, knitting).
The invasion of tourism, with its innovations, didn’t reach quite all areas.Even now, on the sheer slopes, they make hay while being tied up to a tree with a rope, with mountaineering skills. And sheep farming also remains present, although not with the support that shepherds would desire.
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Attractions
Mountains:
Iezer Papusa Mountains;
Piatra Craiului Mountains;
Bucegi Mountains;
Defile and Gorges:
Valea si Cheile Dambovitei;
Prapastiile Zarnestilor;
Cheile de la Cetateni;
Cheile Rasnoavei – climbing & bungee jumping paradise in Romania;
Caves
Dambovicioarei’s Caves
Natural Reservations and Parks
Piatra Craiului National Park;
Bucegi National Park;
Iezer – Papusa National Park;
Cultural Attractions
Historical
Ancient Roman Fortress-Jidava (at 4 km from Campulung);
Poienari Fortress (at 2 km from Capatanenii Pamanteni, on DN 7C), it was builded an the mountain Cetatuia by Vlad Tepes (Vlad Dracul) (sec. XIV);
Geto-dacic Fortress Cetateni (at 26 km from Campulung);
Negru Voda’fortress-Cetateni (sec. XIV);
Brasov’ Citadel - was build in 1395 at King Sigismund from Luxemburg counsel. At that time the most powerfull citadel in Transilvania;
Bran Castle;
Oratii Fortress;
Rasnov Fortress – the biggest peasants fortress (sec XII-lea);
Biserica veche Sfantul Nicolae Ciudovoret din Rasnov - cea mai veche biserica romanica de rit ortodox din sud-estul Transilvaniei (ridicata in sec. al XIV-lea, ctitorita de Radu Voda, tatal lui Mircea cel Batran.)
Religious
Negru Voda’ monastery in Campulung Muscel (1215);
Baratia Church-Campulung (sec. XIV);
Domneasca Church-Campulung(1567);
Subesti Church-Campulung (1551);
Old Church Sfantul Nicolae Ciudovoret from Rasnov – the oldest romaniac orthodox church in Transilvania
Cultural Attractions
George Toparceanu – national poet - Memorial House in Namaiesti (la 6 km de Campulung pe DN 73);
Ships & Shepards festival and Cheese festival – at the end of september. It is a national festival in Romania which celebrate the harvest, when the shepards are coming down with the animals from the mountains.
Monuments :
Mateias Mausoleum – at 11 km from Campulung on DN 73 ( mausoleum and historical museeum complex, dedicated to the heroes of WW1)
Sports
Trekking,Hiking and Mountaineering;
Mountain Byke;
Paragliding;
Speology;
Ski;
Enduro;
Bungee Jumping;
Horse riding;
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