Top 10 Amazing Facts About Romania
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1 That is sometimes associated with Romania but did you know that on January 1st 2011 Romania instituted a black magic tax since witches and fortune tellers pretty much work as life coaches of the supernatural and they're recognized by the country as legitimate business people.
2 They gotta pay a tax witches also need to carry a permit with them near the Ukrainian border is what's called the merry cemetery a wood covered by the name of Stan I own hatred he designed it in 1940 and it's both a tourist destination as well as an open-air museum known for its colorful carved wooden crosses painted with scenes of the deceased life each of the tombstones.
3 They actually have some sort of funny poem about the person who passed away and it's considered to be the happiest cemetery on planet Earth so it's not just eerie things happening down in Romania and the Romanian language also is the only Romance language in Eastern Europe.
3 Eastern Europe most people me included believe that the Romanian language
is similar to languages like Russian or other Slavic countries however Romanian is actually a Romance language and it's related to languages like Italian French Spanish and Portuguese did not know that Romania also has the tallest wooden church in Europe in a small village in northern Romania.
4 Northern Romania old churches have been carved in wood by people from Marah Moorish in the region some of them are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
5 This church the sub pin stuff is 78 meters tall that's about 255 feet tall also some amazing scientists and engineers came out of Romania who actually changed the world some of these include nicola constantine pol SQ who claimed to have been the first person to discover insulin.
6 Then there's eugene papa who was the inventor of the hyper cd-rom and RL per shoe the first engineer and car designer to build a car with the wheeled inside of the body of the car pet trot Panero also invented the fountain pen.
7 There's many others that could be a whole nother episode on its own romania is also home to the world's second largest administrative building and it's second only to the pentagon in the united states bucharest palace of the parliament is also known as the people's house it's the second largest the heaviest and the most expensive Civil Administration Building in the world it has a total area of 360 thousand square meters and this is recognized by Guinness World Record also the tallest rock sculpture in Europe is located in Romania.
8 The sculpture was made between 1994 and 2004 on a rock formation on the river Danube it's located at the iron gates which forms part of the border between Romania and Serbia and the sculpture is near the small city of or Sava in southwestern.
9 Romania and it's 55 meters high the sculpture is of dissemble us who was the last king of Daysha and you can only reach the sculpture by boat there's also the transfiguration also known as the DN 7c a lot easier to pronounce and this was called the best road in the world by Jeremy Clarkson in 2009.
10 In an episode of Top Gear the road runs for 90 kilometres across the southern Carpathian Mountains between the highest and the second highest peaks the road climbs to 2030 four meters in altitude at its highest point and it also passes Vlad the impaler's Castle not horse I cannot have a video about Romania without mentioning Count Dracula Irish author Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula really popularized vampires especially in the fiction fantasy genre for books and even movies and TV shows now the fictional Count Dracula lives in what Stoker describes as a ruin of the castle in the Carpathian Mountains but the real-life bran castle in Brasov in the Transylvania region it's not a ruin at all it's actually very well preserved and a lot of inspiration for Dracula's castle was taken from this one and also no Count Dracula is not a real person just completely fiction there's no vampire living up in Romania I think the Romanian wedding customs include stealing the bride at weddings this is a pretty funny one so in Romanian culture the weddings include kidnapping the bride during the wedding ceremony a few of the guests steal the bride for a ransom of candy or alcohol or some other things most guests end up taking the bride to a local pub or something to dance for a little bit so if you get married in Romania for some reason do not call the police your wife is supposed to get kidnapped okay so yeah whoa that was crazy I feel like I literally just sky dived inside of a tornado.
All right now that was awesome Romania definitely is a place that would make a very amazing vacation other than that give that subscribe button a little love tap and ring that Bell notification so you can keep up with all our future Article here on Countries Facts so I'll see you guys soon later Goodbye.
1 That is sometimes associated with Romania but did you know that on January 1st 2011 Romania instituted a black magic tax since witches and fortune tellers pretty much work as life coaches of the supernatural and they're recognized by the country as legitimate business people.
2 They gotta pay a tax witches also need to carry a permit with them near the Ukrainian border is what's called the merry cemetery a wood covered by the name of Stan I own hatred he designed it in 1940 and it's both a tourist destination as well as an open-air museum known for its colorful carved wooden crosses painted with scenes of the deceased life each of the tombstones.
3 They actually have some sort of funny poem about the person who passed away and it's considered to be the happiest cemetery on planet Earth so it's not just eerie things happening down in Romania and the Romanian language also is the only Romance language in Eastern Europe.
3 Eastern Europe most people me included believe that the Romanian language
is similar to languages like Russian or other Slavic countries however Romanian is actually a Romance language and it's related to languages like Italian French Spanish and Portuguese did not know that Romania also has the tallest wooden church in Europe in a small village in northern Romania.
4 Northern Romania old churches have been carved in wood by people from Marah Moorish in the region some of them are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
5 This church the sub pin stuff is 78 meters tall that's about 255 feet tall also some amazing scientists and engineers came out of Romania who actually changed the world some of these include nicola constantine pol SQ who claimed to have been the first person to discover insulin.
6 Then there's eugene papa who was the inventor of the hyper cd-rom and RL per shoe the first engineer and car designer to build a car with the wheeled inside of the body of the car pet trot Panero also invented the fountain pen.
7 There's many others that could be a whole nother episode on its own romania is also home to the world's second largest administrative building and it's second only to the pentagon in the united states bucharest palace of the parliament is also known as the people's house it's the second largest the heaviest and the most expensive Civil Administration Building in the world it has a total area of 360 thousand square meters and this is recognized by Guinness World Record also the tallest rock sculpture in Europe is located in Romania.
8 The sculpture was made between 1994 and 2004 on a rock formation on the river Danube it's located at the iron gates which forms part of the border between Romania and Serbia and the sculpture is near the small city of or Sava in southwestern.
9 Romania and it's 55 meters high the sculpture is of dissemble us who was the last king of Daysha and you can only reach the sculpture by boat there's also the transfiguration also known as the DN 7c a lot easier to pronounce and this was called the best road in the world by Jeremy Clarkson in 2009.
10 In an episode of Top Gear the road runs for 90 kilometres across the southern Carpathian Mountains between the highest and the second highest peaks the road climbs to 2030 four meters in altitude at its highest point and it also passes Vlad the impaler's Castle not horse I cannot have a video about Romania without mentioning Count Dracula Irish author Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula really popularized vampires especially in the fiction fantasy genre for books and even movies and TV shows now the fictional Count Dracula lives in what Stoker describes as a ruin of the castle in the Carpathian Mountains but the real-life bran castle in Brasov in the Transylvania region it's not a ruin at all it's actually very well preserved and a lot of inspiration for Dracula's castle was taken from this one and also no Count Dracula is not a real person just completely fiction there's no vampire living up in Romania I think the Romanian wedding customs include stealing the bride at weddings this is a pretty funny one so in Romanian culture the weddings include kidnapping the bride during the wedding ceremony a few of the guests steal the bride for a ransom of candy or alcohol or some other things most guests end up taking the bride to a local pub or something to dance for a little bit so if you get married in Romania for some reason do not call the police your wife is supposed to get kidnapped okay so yeah whoa that was crazy I feel like I literally just sky dived inside of a tornado.
All right now that was awesome Romania definitely is a place that would make a very amazing vacation other than that give that subscribe button a little love tap and ring that Bell notification so you can keep up with all our future Article here on Countries Facts so I'll see you guys soon later Goodbye.