Bran Castle, Peles and Corvin Castle are the places in Romania that attracted the most searches on Google Maps, in the first ten months of the year, while in the Capital, the most searched cultural landmarks were the Romanian Athenaeum, the History Museum and the Antipa Museum, reveals an analysis by Google. As regards searches in Europe, the Louvre Museum in Paris and British Museum in London were the most popular sights on Google Maps. In the top dedicated to the most searched for cultural and touristic sights, after the number of reviews on Google Maps there is Bran Castle as well.In Romania, the cultural sights with highest grades on Google Maps are the following : the Tiriac Collection, the Romanian Atheneum and the National Theatre Bucharest.‘Especially during celebrations and mini-holidays, places such as shops and restaurants become crowded. Some people want to avoid crowds – such as in shops or in transport means, some other people look for moments when the places are crowded, such as bars. To get information about the level of crowdedness of a place on Google Maps,we have to access the respective place and scroll to the section ‘ Peak hours’ where such info is presented, for the days of week and times. Google launched the section ‘ Area busyness’ which shows the degree of crowdedness in different parts of the city. You can avoid season crowdedness around places such as the skating rinks or Christmas fair’ says the technology giant in a press release.
More than one in three children in Romania, roughly 1.25 million, live in poverty, and the percentage rises dramatically to 75.8% for those whose parents have a low level of education, according to 2024 Eurostat data cited by Save the Children Romania. Children in rural areas face a much higher risk of poverty or social […]
Wizz Air has expanded its base at Timișoara International Airport, in western Romania, by adding a third aircraft and launching five new routes this month. The expansion marks another milestone for the carrier, which has transported more than nine million passengers to and from Timișoara since beginning operations there in 2008. Starting this week, passengers […]
Tech giant Apple announced a major expansion of its clean energy projects across Europe with new large-scale solar and wind farms under development in Romania, Greece, Italy, Latvia, and Poland. The local project is located in Galați County. Together with a newly operational solar array in Spain, the projects announced on Tuesday, October 14, will...
Romanian president Nicușor Dan argued that there is a lot of room for new American investments in areas such as energy or artificial intelligence in Romania in an interview given on Monday, October 13. The head of state said that foreign investments increase Romania’s economy and are generally beneficial to long-term growth. “There is a […]
British rock icons The Cure and American duo Twenty One Pilots will headline the 2026 edition of Electric Castle, one of Romania’s largest music festivals. The event will take place on July 16–19 at Banffy Castle in Bonțida, near Cluj-Napoca. Festival passes are available on the event’s website, with early bird prices offered through midnight, […]
Romanian prime minister Ilie Bolojan attended the launch of a new Mercedes-Benz assembly line for propulsion units on Monday, October 13, in Sebeș, central Romania. The new line will service fully-electric GLC models produced by the German carmaker. The new high-tech production line has a 15,000-square-meter assembly line, over 1,000 meters in length, and more […]
