Top 7 special places in Romania to spend the New Year’s Eve

Georgiana Bendre 12/12/2017 | 10:00

New Year’s Eve is celebrated all around Romania. It is a time to celebrate the end of the year gone by and welcome what is in store in the New Year. Besides the usual hotels, ballrooms, bars, clubs and friends’ houses, there are some people that prefer less common places to celebrate this special evening.

 

In the middle of Sighisoara citadel

Sighisoara, a city-monument protected by UNESCO since 1999, included in the list of world patrimony, hosts the inhabited medieval citadel even in the present. The citadel was raised in 1280. In the 14th century handcrafters immigrated under the citadel and organized themselves in strong guilds, that built around the citadel a defence wall, with a length of 930 meters and a height of 4 meters.

Placed within the medieval Citadel Sighisoara, the touristic resort “House Georgius Krauss” is in the UNESCO patrimony and still keeps its image from the second half of 20th century. Its name comes from Georgius Krauss, a known historical and cultural figure, who wrote the Sighisoara’ chronicles and Transylvania’s history and who lived in this house.

It is now part of the Boutique hotels category due to its special design. The resort has a special New Year’s offer and at the clients’ demand a citadel tour can be organized, together with the Citadel’s drummer.

  House Georgius Krauss

 

Sighisora Citadel

 

Cantacuzino Castle

Built in 1911, at the request of Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, born in an aristocratic family, former mayor and Romania’s PM at the beginning of the last century, Cantacuzino castle was raised on the place of the former hunting house of Cantacuzino castle, with a surface of over 3,100 sqm, in Busteni. The castle remained in Cantacuzino’s  family until  ’40s, when it was nationalized and transformed into sanatory. Later, the castle became museum, one of the most popular touristic objective in Busteni. It was reopened after reconvey.

Nowadays the Castle also hosts New Year’s Eve parties. This year party’s theme is Italian style, with special Italian and French food and one of the most popular covers bands:  Special Guest Orchestra. There will be cocktails and fireworks.

 

Cantacuzino castle

Sturdza Castle

Sturdza Castle in Miclauseni, also known as the Sturdza Palace, is a neo- goth castle built between 1880-1904 by Gheorghe Sturdza, a descendent of the Moldovan lords of Romania, and his wife, Maria, in Miclauseni village, at distance of 20 km from roman and 65 km from Iasi municipality. Currently, the palace is in the Moldova and Bucovina Cathedral’s property and it is included in the list of historical monuments from Iasi since 2015.

The New Year’s Eve celebration here starts with a Castle tour, followed by a gourmet menu with 7 special dishes, a dance contest with prizes, live music session, a DJ, New Year’s Eve customs with the traditional customs assembly from Timisesti, and entertained by firework and champaigne.

Sturdza Castle

 

Medieval locality Biertan

Biertan is a locality in central Romania, in the north of the Sibiu County. Biertan  is one of the most important villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, having been on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1993. The Biertan fortified church was the see of the Lutheran Evangelical Bishop in Transylvania between 1572 and 1867.  In 1397, Biertan was recognized as citadel. As every ancient German placement, it had a central market, above which was built a church-citadel. The current church was built in 1486-1526 in later-goth style.

In this ancient locality, there is a complex with resorts rehabilitated in the style of the local architecture, the Medieval Complex Unglerus. Their placement near the walls of the fortified citadel of Biertan offers a special New Year’s Eve atmosphere. The resorts Thomas and Michael were rehabilitated within two old German traditional houses. They also comprise a Medieval restaurant.

Biertan Citadel

 

Hotel Castle Dracula

Romania is known for the count Dracula legend, so that some tourists are choosing to spend the New Year’s Eve at Dracula hotel castle.

The hotel, opened in 1983 in a medieval house style, is placed at the border between Bistrita-Nasaud and Suceava, near the national road DN17.

Situated at 1,116 m altitude at Piatra Fantanele, Dracula hotel castle offers a landscape of Bargau mountains and it is in the approximate site of the fictional Count’s castle.

 Hotel Castle Dracula

Viscri surroundings

Viscri area, in the heart of Transylvania, is known as the Romanian village that charmed Prince Charles with its beauty. At less than 10 km is the village Crit, or Dutsch-Kreuz on its old German name. It is an old village, surrounded by forested hills and meadows. The main road is on the list of historical monuments.

In this village you can find the Home with Morning Glory Flowers, that offers a 3-4 night accommodation and a special party for the New Year’s eve. During this mini-holiday guests can enjoy traditional Romanian food and beverages. The offer also includes a drive by caravan.

Home with Morning Glory Flowers

Danube Delta

Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta and owns the richest ornithic fauna in Europe. Danube Delta entered the world patrimony UNESCO in 1991, classified as biosfera reservation at national level in Romania.

It is a winter shelter for many birds species that nestle beyond Polar Circle: winter swan, Polar goose, as well as the goose with red neck.

Visitors that choose to spend the New Year’s Eve here can enjoy all these. Green Village resort offers a special New Year’s Eve package.

The access to Green Village Resort is done exclusively by boat. At a surcharge, boats can be rented at the resort. Guests arriving by car can park in the town of Murighiol, 47 km away.

The package includes three nights accommodation for an adult in a double room, with all meals and beverages package, as well as a festive dinner in the New Year’s Eve with a prizes, surprise guests and a piscatorial brunch on January 1st, combined with a disco night on January 1st.

The package also comprises the access to entertainment center and Lotus SPA with dry sauna and a trip/transfer by boat Murighiol – Sfantu Gheorghe – Murighiol.

Danube Delta

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