This week’s Romanian city is Targoviste, the former Wallachian capital and Royal Court located 80 km from the current Romanian capital Bucharest. It is a city where history springs from every corner, and its closeness to Bucharest makes it a great week-end escape destination.

If you're staying in Bucharest on Christmas and/or on New Year's Eve and you're not planning to throw a party in your own/a friend's house, there are a couple of options to spend some time out in the town during the winter holidays. We listed some of them for you: Christmas lunches & brunches, New Year's Eve parties – feel free to write us if you're hosting a party or know of one which you expect to rock! You could also check out other events taking place in Bucharest in December.

Romanian world champion pugilist Lucian Bute will promote Romania's tourism brand, according to the Romanian Tourism Minister. The minister plans to organize one of Lucian Bute's matches next year in Bucharest, to attract more international attention for Romania.

Already planning your winter holidays? Well, if you're choosing Bucharest for your stay in the month of December, we've made a list of events in the city you could try yourself - or offer as gifts to your loved ones. Stay tuned in the following days as we are preparing more goodies to help you plan for the winter season in Romania! Also, check back on this article as we'll be adding more events as they are announced.

Two tourism associations, APDT Brasov and Association Monteoru Renaissance have recently launched the Carpathian Tourism Cluster Romania, a network of regional and national stakeholders in the Romanian tourism industry. The aim of this cluster is to support sustainable tourism development and create additional value for the tourism industry in region of the Carpathian Mountains. Members of the cluster are tourism development associations, NGOs, local and national authorities, tour operators, travel agencies, tourism guides, event agencies, suppliers of the tourism industry and service and consulting companies.

The ice hotel near Balcea Lac in the Carpathian Mountains will be inaugurated on December 24 this year and will be opened four tourists until April 30 next year. The price of a room in the Ice Hotel will be of RON 150/person. This year, 14 rooms made of ice will be available.

The heart of Romania, Sibiu or “Hermannstadt” in German and “Nagyszeben” in Hungarian, is one of the most important Romanian cultural centers. Ranked as “Europe’s 8th most idyllic place to live in”, it was also the “European Capital of Culture” in 2007, alongside with Luxembourg.

A group of Romanian investors is planning the first lake dwelling resort in Romania, in Berzasca, Caras Severin county, South West of Romania, local media has reported. The resort will include, among others 30 bungalows, two pools and restaurants on the Danube. The project, worth EUR 1.6 million, will be half financed by European funds.

One of the main cities in Romania, at the crossroads of several commercial routes, Constanta is an industrial, commercial and tourist center and the oldest Romanian city, the town where Roman poet Ovid has been exiled during ancient times.

“Iasi is more than a former illustrious capital of Moldavia, within its walls art and national historical treasures dwell, such abundant treasures that no other city in today’s Romania possesses,“ wrote historian Nicolae Iorga. For most cultures known as Iassy, the main urban center in Nord-Eastern Romania, a former capital of Moldavia and later of Romania, this is today’s third largest city in Romania and the second largest university and cultural center.

This week’s Romanian city is Targoviste, the former Wallachian capital and Royal Court located 80 km from the current Romanian capital Bucharest. It is a city where history springs from every corner, and its closeness to Bucharest makes it a great week-end escape destination.

If you're staying in Bucharest on Christmas and/or on New Year's Eve and you're not planning to throw a party in your own/a friend's house, there are a couple of options to spend some time out in the town during the winter holidays. We listed some of them for you: Christmas lunches & brunches, New Year's Eve parties – feel free to write us if you're hosting a party or know of one which you expect to rock! You could also check out other events taking place in Bucharest in December.

Romanian world champion pugilist Lucian Bute will promote Romania's tourism brand, according to the Romanian Tourism Minister. The minister plans to organize one of Lucian Bute's matches next year in Bucharest, to attract more international attention for Romania.

Already planning your winter holidays? Well, if you're choosing Bucharest for your stay in the month of December, we've made a list of events in the city you could try yourself - or offer as gifts to your loved ones. Stay tuned in the following days as we are preparing more goodies to help you plan for the winter season in Romania! Also, check back on this article as we'll be adding more events as they are announced.

Two tourism associations, APDT Brasov and Association Monteoru Renaissance have recently launched the Carpathian Tourism Cluster Romania, a network of regional and national stakeholders in the Romanian tourism industry. The aim of this cluster is to support sustainable tourism development and create additional value for the tourism industry in region of the Carpathian Mountains. Members of the cluster are tourism development associations, NGOs, local and national authorities, tour operators, travel agencies, tourism guides, event agencies, suppliers of the tourism industry and service and consulting companies.

The ice hotel near Balcea Lac in the Carpathian Mountains will be inaugurated on December 24 this year and will be opened four tourists until April 30 next year. The price of a room in the Ice Hotel will be of RON 150/person. This year, 14 rooms made of ice will be available.

The heart of Romania, Sibiu or “Hermannstadt” in German and “Nagyszeben” in Hungarian, is one of the most important Romanian cultural centers. Ranked as “Europe’s 8th most idyllic place to live in”, it was also the “European Capital of Culture” in 2007, alongside with Luxembourg.

A group of Romanian investors is planning the first lake dwelling resort in Romania, in Berzasca, Caras Severin county, South West of Romania, local media has reported. The resort will include, among others 30 bungalows, two pools and restaurants on the Danube. The project, worth EUR 1.6 million, will be half financed by European funds.

One of the main cities in Romania, at the crossroads of several commercial routes, Constanta is an industrial, commercial and tourist center and the oldest Romanian city, the town where Roman poet Ovid has been exiled during ancient times.

“Iasi is more than a former illustrious capital of Moldavia, within its walls art and national historical treasures dwell, such abundant treasures that no other city in today’s Romania possesses,“ wrote historian Nicolae Iorga. For most cultures known as Iassy, the main urban center in Nord-Eastern Romania, a former capital of Moldavia and later of Romania, this is today’s third largest city in Romania and the second largest university and cultural center.