Winter activities for everybody

Jan 7, 2018
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Have you made plans for the winter holidays? We decided to recommend you a few places in our country that have something really special in this period and that are very family-friendly as well. We also included some cities in Romania and the reasons why they deserve a visit around Christmas.

The Christmas Market in Bucharest

The Christmas Market in Bucharest is arranged in Viennese style and has that unmistakable flavor of cake, oranges, chestnuts and mulled wine. 3,000 light bulbs and a kilometer colored Christmas lights light the fair. In the midst of the square, dominates a tall fir and more light projections can be seen on surrounding buildings. Merchants’ goodies are crowded in festive decorated houses. From there, you can buy traditional and hand-made items, toys of all kinds, accessories, seasonal decorations and traditional Christmas dishes. And one thing that you also can do is that after the Viennese model, mulled wine is served in cups that can be taken home as a souvenir.

The Christmas Fair in Sibiu

Piata Mare (The Big Square) of Sibiu was arranged with festive decorations each year, and this year makes no exception. At one of the openings of the fair, a representative of the Austrian Embassy in Romania said that the fair is in the top 10 most beautiful in the world. Traders from over 20 counties are racing to bring to the fair the most beautiful, most helpful or most delicious products possible. The fair is open daily starting with the end of November until after New Year’s.

Tip: until Christmas, Santa’s Workshop is organized in Sibiu and there the little ones can learn to manufacture candles after hundreds of years old methods, to bake cookies, or to make other Christmas-related activities.

Poiana Brasov mountain resort

It’s one of the most beautiful places to visit in Romania during winter and one of the most famous tourist resorts across the country. It’s the ideal location to visit, providing 12 ski slopes with varying degrees of difficulty. The scenery is magnificent, especially in winter.