COUNTY BRASOV

Brasov is the largest and one of the oldest urban centers, not only of the Internal Depression of Carpathians Curbura, but from the entire Carpathian chain. Together with urban centers in the immediate area: the cities of Sacele, Zarnesti, Codlea, Rasnov and Predeal, Brasov forms one of the most advanced urban agglomeration in the country. The existence of extensive alpine pastures and hayfields has favored from early times an intense pastoral life on the county’s territory. It is documentary attested, from the end of the XIIth century and the beginning of XIIIth century, in the handicraft centers, especially in Brasov, that the processing of leathers, metals and wool had a big growth. From that time Brasov became one of the leading providers of Wallachia and Moldavia of handicraft products. The exchange of products of Brasov county, Wallachia and Moldova led to the development of an intense commercial life, especially since the XIV-th century till the end of XIX-th century. The development of the relations with Wallachia and Moldova was also facilitated by the existence of Carpathian passages which has favored that important trade routes to head towards the city of Brasov. Its position at the contact between various geographical areas, each with different natural resources, has facilitated a strong exchange of products. In the feudal age the fortress, the city core, compressed the handicraft activities and cultural administration, in order to become (in the second half of the XIXth century at the same time as the industrial development) an important railway junction.

Passed generations have left many historical traces, traces that we see in the multitude of touristic objectives and beauty of the surroundings. Among them we mention:

County Museum, construction developed round about guild skinner’s house; from here we can set out the line of life that began to develop on the todays precincts of the city from the polished stone age. Archaeological discoveries from Snail’s Hill and from Noua, the ones from the Sprengiu hill, from the Solomon’s Stones, from Racadau Valley, have revealed traces proving that the city life on Brasov territory was carried on without interruption and to the first documentary attestation(1252) which marks the beginning of the medieval town, the Dacians, Daco-Romans and Roman- Slavs had solid settlements, whose traces can be seen in the history department of the museum,
The ruins of the Brasov fortress built between 1395-1420 and completed in the next centuries ( the walls under Tampa with the bastions of the Drapers, Funars (ropes knitters) and Weavers;

Bastion of the blacksmiths where the castle’s archives is sheltered,

The Black Church – a monumental construction of hall churches category, built in gothic style, at who’s construction it’s been worked for a century (from 1385 until 1477); Its actual name is a legacy of a fire that in 1689 has smoked its walls;the citadel on the Plaiesi hill or Straja, built in 1625 on the site of a wooden fortifications,

St. Bartholomew’s Church – building on Romanic plan from the first half of XII-th century;

The Church of St. Nicholas from Schei, foundation of Muntenians and Moldavian rulers from the XV-th and XVI-th century, and the former school building in its courtyard, one of the oldest Romanian schools whose teachers have helped Coresi at Romanian printed works made at Brasov between 1561-1581, some of the first printings in Romanian,

Memorial House Gheorghe Dima – composer and teacher with a prodigious activity in the music field.
Brasov city with its rich cultural and scientific tradition has numerous educational institutions – elementary, gymnazium, secondary and university. In Brasov county region lasts an old and invaluable cultural traditions of the Romanian. The town of Brasov is the place where worked the deacon Coresi and Johannes Honterus. This was the place where the progressive thinking of Gh Baritiu, Simion Barnutiu and other figures recorded in the history of the country has manifested powerfully. Also in newspapers and magasines from Brasov published Heliade I. Radulescu, Nicolae Balcescu, Asachi.

Brasov has often hosted Eminescu and Ciprian Porumbescu, the operetta of the latter, Crai Nou being represented for the first time on this stage city. Brasov is among the first counties in the country in terms of tourist importance, touristic center of Brasov county is, himself an urban settlement of tourist interest, with historical, cultural and tourism complex.

From the city we can make excursions around :

-Tampa mountain (960m altitude) that dominates the medieval town center and where existed in the XIIIth century a fortification (Brasovia) pulled down in the XV-th century. A path starts from the alleys under Tampa climbing up in turns till the top of the mountain, offering a splendid view over the city.

- Poiana Brasov – health resort and well known center for winter sports, located at about 8 km distance. Fromn Poiana Brasov you can climb Postavaru Mountain either on foot or by cable railway that servs in the winter the slopes where are held national and international ski contests.

In Brasov county an important place is held by fortresses and castles. There for the fortress of Cohalm from Rupea, the feudal fortress of Fagaras, Risnov fortress, the peasant fortresses from Prejmer and Harman are only a small part of the many vestiges that cover the county’s territory. We can also visit many castles: Bran Castle, an architectural monument of national importance, the castels from Racos, Hoghiz and Sambata de Sus presents tourist importance both for their architecture, as well as for the natural landscapes that sourround them.

In areas of untold natural beauty there are tourist complexes or resorts. Thus there is Sambata climateric resort on Sambata valley at the foot of Fagaras mountains. Here it is a monastery, founded by Constantin Brancoveanu. At Codlea it is a modern tourist complex resort. Predeal city and Poiana Brasov health resort have great importance on the national scale. The chalets Vanatorul, Poiana Ursului, Capra Neagra are famous for their picturesqueness. The chalets Podragul, Valea Sambetei, Urlea from the Piatra Craiului massif are admirable places for rest or halt.

The county we may also visit magnificent natural monuments, also famous abroad and very popular with tourists; glacial lakes on the crest of the Fagaras Mountains – Podragul, Urlea, also the imposing Piatra Craiului rocky massif, the reservation Poiana Narciselor.

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