Romania… a medium sized country that is still waiting to be discovered, to appear in all its beauty side to side to the actual more visited places in Europe and to be released of the cuffs of stereotypes and judgments.
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For the first-time visitor, Transylvania, one of the most important Romania’s areas comes with a lot of mental baggage. Thanks to the Dracula industry, Romania’s heartland exists in the popular imagination in a kind of permanent Middle Ages, a land of fearful peasants, salivating beasts and the odd Gothic castle inhabited by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Of course, you know it’s all nonsense: you know modern Romania is a member of the EU, has troops serving in Iraq, and that the Count was a lurid fabrication anyway, as reliable a guide to the modern country as Sherlock Holmes is to London.
