What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches – a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such ...

There were, so far, three key stages in the history of Jiu Valley, a region nestled between mountain ranges in southwestern Transylvania in the heart of Romania. First, it was a remote, scarcely ...