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Located at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, in the centre of Romania, Brasov is one of the largest and most charming cities of the country. Founded in 1211, it is one of the best preserved cities in all of Europe. Brasov is home to a very pointy Orthodox church and one of the narrowest streets in Europe. Called “the Prague of Transylvania”, the old city was thoroughly restored to the delight of an increasing number of tourists.

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Opera de Monte Carlo
Located in the principality of Monaco, the Opera de Monte Carlo was opened in 1879. Designed the magnificent and extravagantly, the opera house was recently renovated. Over 80,000 gold leaves were applied to paintings and moldings, a five-ton chandelier has been entirely rebuilt. As it seats only 524, it is often difficult to get tickets. This the only opera house in the world to feature exterior views (thanks to the windows overlooking the Mediterranean) from within the concert space.

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Located in a residential building in the center of Bucharest, Shade Club offers its visitors a creative design and an elegance and style atmosphere. Opened in 2008, it is one of the most modern and trendy clubs in the city.

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Covers area of about 850 sq. m, Fratelli Studios Club is located in Bucharest, Romania. The Club is designed by the Romanian firm designer named Twins Studio and boasts a unique contemporary interior. Housed in a factory-like building, this night club offers a great design with large metallic pillars and metal beams.

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The four-part logo of this night club in Bucharest refers to the organic theme that inspired its design: the various stages of development of an embryo. The entrance area leading into the windowless ground and basement floors is like a vagina; in the underbelly of the club a three-dimentional wall made of Comadur panels in the form of an oversized cell structure encloses the space. Complementing this variably colored, womb-like space, the rest of the interior fittings and the light membrane also imitate organic forms. The procreative process is also represented in the indirect lighting slots in the bar area, which are in the form of sperm cells.

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Putna Monastery (Romanian: Manastirea Putna) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery, one of the most important cultural, religious and artistic centers established in medieval Moldavia. The imposing Putna Monastery is situated about 30 km northwest from the town of Radauti , near the Putna River. Putna Monastery dates from the 15th century. The story goes that it was built in a general area picked out by Stephen’s advisor, Daniel the Hermit. A section of tree trunk containing the arrow hole is still kept in the monastery museum and a cross marks the spot from which the arrow was shot.

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When Bram Stoker wrote his classic novel, Dracula, he an entire genre of vampire movies, from the pallid horror and busty swooning of cheesy films like Brides Of Dracula to the angsty teenage smarts of The Lost Boys (‘My own brother, a goddamn, shit sucking vampire. Boy, you wait till mom finds out, buddy’).The first documentary attestation of Bran Castle is the letter written in 1377 by the Hungarian Ludovic I D’Anjou, giving the inhabitants of Brasov some privileges.

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The state of Romania has joined the EU recently and made one of its first announcements as a loud and clear: they want to buy the medieval fortress in Transylvania, Bran Castle which is also known as Dracula’s Castle back from the former royal family of Habsburgs.

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