Geography of Romania

Up to half a million Romanians are expected to take part in a three-day pilgrimage to a saint's shrine, which started on Friday.

Believers are lining up in queues stretching for miles to worship the relics of St Parascheva, which lie in the northeastern town of Iasi.

The Romania's Orthodox Church believes the saint's relics perform miracles.

The former home of the great warrior king Matthias Corvinus in Hunedoara in southern Transylvania is hosting one of the largest open-air opera festivals in Europe.

Romanians love sweets in general and pancakes are one of their favourites desserts. That was one reason why Alexandra Lipovan, a young woman from Satu Mare, in northern Romania, three years ago started ClaTos, a food truck from which she sells artisan-style French crepes.

For ten days in June, the Transylvanian city of Sibiu has been an enormous stage, with theatre, dance performances, circus and music taking place all over the city.

Over 2,500 artists and producers from some 70 countries worldwide are presenting 427 events organized in 67 venues from Sibiu, including public squares, churches, historic sites and pubs, as well as in theatre halls.

Romanian nuclear energy company Nuclearelectrica hopes to finalize an agreement on the construction of units 3 and 4 of the Cernavoda nuclear plant with China General Nuclear Power Corp by end-2015.

The Chinese nuclear power utility was the sole bidder for the tender organized by the Romanian government.

Avram Iancu International Airport on Monday launched a project meant to promote the tourist and cultural landmarks of the County of Cluj.

The Sunday's referendum for the merger of the Western Romania municipality of Oradea with the Sinmartin commune has been rendered invalid, since it failed to gather the minimum presence of 30 percent of the voters, Municipal Electoral Bureau (BEM) President, Justice Ionel Olah told AGERPRES on Monday.

The Grand Prize of the Jury at the Romanian selection of the "Tres Court-International Film Festival" went to the "Still Alive" short film, by film director Mathe Endre-Botond of Targu Mures, for the accuracy of the animation techniques and the atmosphere created, the event's organizers informed on Thursday.

Photo credit: Festival des Tres Courts Roumanie Facebook page

Sports and Youth Minister Gabriela Szabo and Prince Nicholas of Romania participated on Thursday night in the ceremonial start of the 15th Danube Delta Rally in downtown Tulcea.

Over 100 researchers from 23 countries will participate between June 6 and 14 in the 14th edition of the International Molinological Society (TIMS) Symposium, an event organised as a nationwide first at ASTRA Museum of Sibiu, the main theme being "the preservation and restoration of mills in museums," the organisers announced on Wednesday.