A Look At Romania And Romanians

A theme park dedicated to Dracula will be built near the Romanian capital rather than in Transylvania.

A feasibility study carried out by PriceWaterhouseCoopers claims the park would attract more than a million tourists a year if it were located near the Romanian capital.

They add just 600,000 visitors would come if it was built in the area where the vampire is said to have come from.

Sighisoara was initially chosen because it gave birth to the 15th century prince Vlad the Impaler.

According to legend, the bloodthirsty prince captured invading Turks and common criminals and impaled them on stakes in public market places. That legend inspired Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the bloodsucking count.

However, residents and officials in Sighisoara are angry at the results of the study, as they had hoped the park would help revive the struggling local economy.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers is to identify the best location for the park near the capital by March, said Tone.

Bucharest also has alleged ties to the prince. Vlad's body is believed to be buried in a monastery he built on an island of Snagov lake, just north of the capital.

Building the park near the capital would also appease conservationists, who have claimed that intensive tourism and construction would damage a medieval citadel in Sighisoara and a protected oak forest.

Romania hopes the park will bring hundreds of thousands of Western tourists.

Happy cows give more milk. This was the belief of five Romanian farmers who are now subject of police investigation after they were found to have been feeding cannabis to their cows.

The farmer aged between 57 and 82, claiming they didn’t know they were doing something illegal by growing the drug in their field, tod the police officers that the drug actually help the cows in producing more milk.

One of the farmers, Ion Astarastoaie said: “We grew it because the cows seemed to like it, and happy cows give more milk.”

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BUCHAREST, Romania - A mass grave containing the bodies of three members of Romanian's anti-communist resistance group, White Guard, turned up on Monday (April 27th) near the village of Nepos in northern Romania, media reported.

The grave contained bones and a boot that will undergo forensic analysis, said experts from the Romanian Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes.

Authorities tentatively identified the dead as Ioan Leonida Bodiu, Ioan Burdet and Toader Dumitru. The communist-era secret police Securitate executed and buried them in 1949.

When will we finally be rid of this communist shadow, when will we be allowed to forget those days and live a normal free life that isn't overcast by the memories of these 'animals' that ruled our country for so long. When...........not in my lifetime !!