Meledic Lake (The Bottomless Lake)
Worldwide unique, the sweet water Meledic Lake spreads over almost 2.5 acres, despite laying on top of a salt massive. Beneath the lake there is the “Six Goats” cave.
Topolnita Cave
17th large worldwide, this cave is to be found about 30km from Drobeta Turnu Severin. Cave was built by Topolnita river together with Gaurinti and Ponorat springs. The cave hosts unique spectacular karst, among which is the “Candle Forest” and “Crystal Lake”.
Podul lui Dumnezeu (Bridge of God)
Appeared after the ceiling downfall of the Ponoarele Cave, it is the only worldwide natural bridge open for circulation.
Natural Park “Portile de Fier” (Iron Gates Natural Park)
Is considered a genuine open-air geological museum, the scientific heritage being unique in the world. Here is the Natural Reserves Cazanele Mari and Cazanele Mici.
Rimetea Village
Proposed to be included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Because the steep slopes surround the village, they give the impression that here the sun rises twice a day, as locals say.
Accumulation Lake Vida
Located near the Luncasprie biosphere village, is called the “emerald paradise”. In the middle of the lake there is a spectacular “whirlwind” that is, in fact, a funnel-type funnel, unique in the world, built to drain water when it’s raining.
The Closani Cave
Declared a monument of nature since 61 years ago, is located in the village of Cloşani, Gorj. It was considered at that time the most important national speleological discovery, over the years Romanian geo-speologists demonstrating that there are unique forms of concretion even for world speleology.
Lacul Albastru (The Blue Lake)
Located at the foot of the Gutâi Mountains, a few kilometers from Baia Sprie, in Maramureş County, is unique in the world, changing its color according to the season and the sunlight. In spring, the lake has the colors blue and dark blue. In summer, it turns dark green, and more, sometimes it has emerald reflections. Autumn, Blue Lake becomes dark green and sometimes even brown.
conquered. This remote hamlet is a breathtaking marvel of nature and human endurance, where life hangs literally on the edge—cliffside homes clinging to slopes that make strong men dizzy and old women chuckle at lowlanders’ trepidation.
Henri Marie Coandă (Romanian pronunciation: [ɑ̃ˈri ˈko̯andə] (7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a “flying saucer” and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
and Năvodari on the Black Sea. Administered from Agigea, it is an important part of the waterway link between the North Sea and the Black Sea via the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal. The main branch of the canal, with a length of 64.4 km (40.0 mi), which connects the Port of Cernavodă with the Port of Constanța, was built in 1976–1984, while the northern branch, known as the Poarta Albă–Midia Năvodari Canal, with a length of 31.2 km (19.4 mi), connecting Poarta Albă and the Port of Midia, was built between 1983 and 1987.
Although the idea of building a navigable canal between the Danube and the Black Sea is old, the first concrete attempt was made between 1949 and 1953, when the communist authorities of the time used this opportunity to eliminate political opponents, so the canal became notorious as the site of labor camps, when at any given time, between 5,000 and 20,000 detainees, mostly political prisoners, worked on its excavation. The total number of prisoners used as labor force during this period is unknown, with the total number of deaths being estimated at several tens of thousands. The construction works of the Danube–Black Sea Canal were to be resumed 20 years later, in different conditions.
George Emil Palade (Fellowship of the Royal Society, Royal Microscopical Society) (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒe̯ordʒe eˈmil paˈlade]; November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist.
born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime, the history of the Germans in the Banat (and more broadly, Transylvania), and the persecution of Romanian ethnic Germans by Stalinist Soviet occupying forces in Romania. Müller has been an internationally well-known author since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. She has received over 20 awards, including the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. On 8 October 2009, it was announced she would be awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”, together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
