ROMADRIA CONFORT - Travel Agencies
5 - 7, Carada Eugen Street ( near National Bank) - Bucharest
Tel: 021 - 312. 73. 92 ;021 - 313.68.12; Fax:021 - 312.09.18; e-mail: office@romadria.ro

Touch the modern city - Bucharest      *Accommodation in 2-5 stars hotels      *Guided sightseeing tours      *Transfers      *Rent a car      *Logistics for congresses, conferences and workshops      *Cocktail parties, business lunches and dinners in the best restaurants Having a population of three million people, spread over an area of 300 square kilometers, the city of Bucharest is one of the largest and most populated European capitals. Bucharest has an ancient history, its territory having been inhabited even since the Bronze Age. Amazing by its impressive number of churches and monasteries, Bucharest was early receptive to western culture, being, by the level of its inhabitants' civilization more than by its urban aspect, closer to the West. The city's essential quality is the abundance of vegetation that covers, in the form of parks and green areas, approximately 20% of its area. Its denomination, 'the garden city', is due both to large parks, such as Herastrau ,that extends by a wonderful open-air ethnographic museum or as Cismigiu, with its tree flanked alleys, and numerous residential districts with mansions that have kept small private gardens. Around Bucharest, the large Baneasa, Snagov, Cernica forests shelter some old monasteries.

Hear the waves - Black Sea and Danube Delta      *Accommodation in sea side resorts as: Mamaia, Neptun, Olimp, Eforie      *Cars/minibuses rent      *Diver & guide services      *Client's assistance & representation      *Tour to the Danube Delta      *Tour for discovering the Greek and Roman ancient sites      *Visit to a vineyard      *Leisure facilities & water sports      *Hotel bookings & restaurant specific activities The Danube Delta is a vast region of 679,000 hectares of which 103,000 hectares are marine, situated where the three main branches of the Danube: Chilia, Sulina and Sfintu Gheorghe flow into the Black Sea. Partially recognized as natural preserve in 1938 and declare biosphere reservation in 1990, the delta ensures protection for 300 bird species, the most widespread being the pelican, for more than 100 fish species, and for a tropical type flora. The Black Sea shore, 245 km long, extends from Chilia branch of the Danube to the Bulgarian border. South of the sandy shores of the lagoon lakes Razim Sinoe, 15 spas and holiday resorts are concentrated on a distance of about 100 km along the gently-sloping shore of the Black Sea. Beaches' exposure to sun is exceptional due to their eastward orientation. As there are no tides, the beaches of fine sand are never flooded; they advance progressively into the sea where no dangerous fish live. In summer, sand temperature can reach 45C and the average temperature of seawater is 20 C.

Smell the fresh air - Carpathian Mountains      *Hotel bookings & restaurant specific activities      *Rest & treatment in domestic spas such as: Sinaia, Predeal, Brasov, Poiana Brasov      *Winter sports programmes      Tours to Peles& Bran Castles      *Accommodation & treatment in health cure resorts: Covasna, Sovata, Balvanyos, Herculane,Felix, Calimanesti The Carpathians are one of the most evoking symbols of Romania, covering about one third of its area. The Carpathians chain is 1000 km long and resembles a vast amphitheatre with the Transylvanianplateau at its center. The geography and the history of the Carpathians merge so profoundly with those of Romania that the universal frame of Romanian people?s myths is the pastoral universe of the Carpathians pastures. The diversity of the Carpathians landscapes is related to the variety of geological structures. Gentle slopes alternate with limestone cliffs and basalt structures. Thousands of glacial lakes and circuses, caves, some of them unique, find their places, mostly in the Western and Southern Carpathians. The tourist activities practiced in the Carpathians, especially skiing, hiking, mountain climbing and bathing in thermal waters, let you discover the beauties of mountain landscapes that present-day civilization has not distorted.

See the amazing colors-Churches&Monasteries      *Thematic tourism: folklore & religious tours      *Roundtrips to the Moldavian painted Monasteries      *Special interest tours throughout Maramures County      *Transfers& transport services Religious edifices are the essential part of Romania's historical and religious Heritage. Built in an architectural style combining Byzantine and Western influences, they express the originality of the local art; churches with exterior and interior frescoes in Moldavia and Bukovina, wooden churches with high, pointed spires in Maramures, fortified churches in Transylvania, 'Brancovenesc style' churches in Wallachia. Churches and monasteries in Romania are the expression of an active religious life. Monasteries as Agapia, Varatec, Putna and Suceava can accommodate passing visitors. A place of prayer and seclusion for orthodox monks and nuns, they have kept the natural beauty of the place that their architecture joins perfectly.

Taste a gorgeous meal - Traditions      *Agro-tourism: accommodation in private houses, villas & pensions      *Traditional meals with ecological product      *Romanian evenings with dances & folk music      *Cultural, ecological & rural tours      *Guides & interpreters Romanian art, architecture and folk traditions are outstanding in Europe by their great originality and duration through centuries. The various customs and traditions emphasize the regional ethnographic specificities: mask games in Moldavia, handicrafts and folk dances in Oltenia, costumes worn on celebration days in Transylvania, woodworking art and culture in Maramures, pastoral civilization in the Apuseni Mountains. Their common artistic and human sensitiveness ensure the unity of these various artistic expressions. A warm people, truly Latin, the Romanians eagerly give full expression to their natural liveliness and imagination, on the occasion of folk celebration. The verse of folk songs, ever so often improvised, confirms the innate creative

Feel the mystery - History & Legends      *Hotel accommodatian in the Transylvanian cities      *Escorted tours to the most enigmatic and unknown Dacian dwellings      *Dracula?s Tours      *Guided tours in the medieval cities Sighisoara, Brasov, Sibiu Romania's territory has been inhabited from times long past. It is here where, in the Neolithic, some of the most prolific European cultures, Cucuteni and Gumelnita, flourished. Known by the Greeks under the name of Gets, and by the Romans as Dacians, the ancient inhabitants of the present Romanian territory were first mentioned by Herodotus. Dacia was conquered by Emperor Traian after two of the most glorious wars of the Roman history, in 106 AD. The Romanian people was formed following Roman colonisation, and, amidst migrating waves, miraculously preserved its unity, including that of its language, spoken without dialectal variations. It is only one thousands years later that the first Romanian states are formed. The national unity partially achieved in 1859 (the union of Wallachia and Moldavia) and completed in 1918 (the union of Romania with Transylvania and Bessarabia) led to the creation of the Great Romania.