Traditions in August Hercules - Folklore Festival at Cerna
The first week of August- Baile Herculane, Caras Severin Country
The festival, also known as the „Folklore festival of the Settlements on the Cerna” is a part of a justified action meant to stimulate and turn to account popular creation in a folklo more...
Traditions in May
The Weighing
On 2nd Sunday of May - Magura Priei, Salaj County
Keeping in mind the memory of the legendary Horia-one of the leaders of the great peasant rising of 1784 who, while living in the little house on the foot of Magura hill, carved, together with his companions a beautiful little wooden more...
Mountains Nedeia In the last week-end of June
Place: Fundata, Brasov Country
One of the most renowned Wallachian summer festivals „ The Nedeia Muntilor ” held at Fundata continues a long - standing custom of economic exchanges, merry - makings and fraternity between the people living on either side more...
CowParade moves to Bucharest Bucharest is the first capital city in Eastern Europe to host the the world’s largest public art event called CowParade.
CowParade was first organized in Zurich in 1998 and since then it was all the vogue through cities like Chicago, New York, London, Stockholm and Prague and 19 other more...
Brancusi sculpture sets record at auction Constantin Brancusi's "Bird in Space" shattered the record for a sculpture at auction on Wednesday when it soared to an astonishing 27,450,000 USD at Christie's sale of Impressionist and modern art. The previous record was held by another Brancusi, "Danaide," which sold for 18,15 more...
Pastoral Event On the 1st Sunday after May 1
Place: Huta-Certeze-Oas, Satu Mare County
Prefaced by a suggestive Maiden`s Dance, the great popular feast begins with a touching invitation to people to come to the "Simbra" and enjoy themselves. The invitation is recited by the oldest shepherd.
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Painted Easter Eggs Painting eggs has age-old traditions, whose origins go back to primeval ages, in many parts of the world: numerous European countries, Israel, Egypt and as far as Japan. In time, this practice acquired religious connotations, with the Christians. Nowadays the eggs are adorned, at Easter time - they more...
Lad's Day - a spring custom On the 1st Sunday of May
A spring festival of the Brasov Juni, comprising a parade of the local costume, a suite of very old dances, held in a part of the town of Brasov, the Schei district, where the first Romanian school was opened (1495) and which saw the beginings of the printing house of De more...
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