The famous Orient Express train on Monday stopped, for the first time in the latest 12 years, while traveling between Paris and Istanbul, Istanbul and Venice respectively, in the Royal Station of the Sinaia mountain resort (Prahova County, north of Bucharest), where the about 100 passengers enjoyed a red-carpet welcome.

According to Corina Ghimbas, representative of the Sinaia Town Hall, the tourists who arrived in Sinaia coming from North America and South America, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and U.K. were invited to visit the Peles Museum and the Sinaia Monastery, after which they left to Bucharest.

The first travel of the legendary train and the first stop in Sinaia took place back in 1883, when the passengers on board the train were aristocrats, writers and famous personalities of the time.

In 1998, after 16 years of absence, the train resumed its travels.

AGERPRES