Often compared to a "Latin island in a Slav sea", Romania features a unique familiar feeling in Eastern Europe: its language of a Latin origin, the Latin alphabet and moreover the Latin temperament and friendliness of its people - all make of Romania a place where most visitor feel very comfortable.

19. The city was founded by German colonists settled in these areas in the XII th centuries. Situated in the northern part of Romania, Bistriţa is a town with a fascinating history and an impressive development. Throughout the centuries the town has preserved the characteristics of an old German burg but at the same time tried to evolve and become a European town of the 21st century.

21. The longest medieval ensemble of arched ground-floor passageways in Romania, built in 15 th -18 th centuries and it has elements of Gothic architecture, Renaissance and Baroque architecture in Central Europe correspondent. It was the area where in the medieval period were held the most active economic exchanges in the city.