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Transylvania

Transylvania, ISBN: 9780711227811                  
by Bronwen Riley, Dan Dinescu

Destinations: Romania

Categories: Culture, Sightseeing


English, 208 pages,     Not rated yet.
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Many people think Transylvania is a fictitious land, like Ruritania or Narnia. It is the birthplace of Dracula. It is the place where dragons live in Harry Potter and the country to which the Pied Piper spirited the children of Hamelin. Indeed, although Transylvania is a real place, truth here is often stranger than fiction. Streams run with silver, the mountains are full of gold, dinosaur nests are found in river beds and haystacks in trees. It is a country of striking cultural contrasts: of Orthodox monasteries, Gothic churches and Communist follies. While the 'King of the Gypsies' lives in a grandiose modern palace, the future King of England has bought a modest peasant's house in a remote village. Transylvania only recently awakened from the deep sleep of Communism and, though life is now changing fast, traditions remain here that elsewhere died out long ago. Transylvania captures this vanishing world in words and pictures.


Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd on 25-04-2008
ISBN-13: 9780711227811
ISBN-10: 0711227810
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