Den rumenske regionen Transylvania er inkludert på den nye National Geographic-listen over flotte familieferiedestinasjoner i 2021. De skriver blant annet at byene Cluj Napoca og Brasov er utmerkede baser for å utforske det landlige Transylvania med blomstrende enger, historielignende eventyrlige slott og brosteinsbelagte gater.
Dette er noe av hva NG skriver på websiden sin om Transylvania i Romania hvor de nevner at regionen er mye mer enn alt oppstyret rundt Dracula:
Finding the real in a land famous for fantasy
What Stoker missed is what Transylvania should be known for: its pastoral, old-Europe feel. Cosmopolitan Cluj is a base for exploring rural Transylvania’s wildflower meadows, storybook castles, and cobbled-lane villages. For families increasingly tethered to technology, a future farm stay here would be a chance to unplug, to spend time instead traveling by horse-drawn cart, hiking in the wooded Carpathian Mountains, and helping with chores like milking sheep, collecting eggs, and piling haystacks.
Transylvania’s bucolic charms have long captivated the Prince of Wales, whose foundation funds local architectural heritage preservation projects. “It’s the timelessness of it which is so remarkable,” the future king says in the travel documentary Wild Carpathia, “almost out of some of those stories one used to read as a child.”
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