Carpathian Mountains

Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) deputy Biro Rozalia, chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, said on Monday that he has recently proposed the establishment of a Carpathian Mountains brand at the Economic Forum in Karpacz, Poland.

The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) issued on Sunday a Code Orange advisory for heavy snowfalls and blizzard in 12 counties of Oltenia, western Muntenia, southern Banat and the Southern Carpathians, valid until Wednesday morning.

Over half a million German citizens visited Romania in 2014, having benefited from tourism services offered by the business operators in this field, said the National Authority for Tourism (ANT) President Simona Allice Man, according to a Monday's press release received by AGERPRES.

Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Almost 200 years after they became locally extinct, a large group of European bison was relocated on Saturday to the Tarcu Mountain in the Carpathians in Western Romania, in one of the largest reintroductions of the endangered mammal in Europe.