The Danube Gorge (also called the Iron Gates, in a broader sense) is the number one tourist destination of 2025, followed by the cities of Iasi and Brasov, in the top ten tourist destinations from Romania for this year proposed by the Tourism Press Club - FIJET Romania, which continues the project "The FIJET Destinations in Romania," which has now reached its 3rd edition.According to a press release, the ten destinations are Sfantu Gheorghe (rural town in the Tulcea County, in the Danube Delta area), the city of Timisoara, the mountain resort Baile Herculane, a village in Transylvania, Arieseni, the geopark Olteania de sub Munte, the city of Targu Jiu, the mountain resort of Ranca, the cities of Brasov and Iasi and the the Danube Gorge."For the third consecutive year, FIJET Romania selected ten special tourist destination in our country to make them better known both in Romania and abroad, through the FIJET World network. The initiative highlights the development of tourism in the respective areas and recognizes the efforts of all those who contribute to their promotion. The project also aims at bringing to the forefront such places in Romania where things are done with passion and professionalism from a tourism perspective," reads the abovementioned press release.In 2023, the top 3 of FIJET Romania destinations was led by Fundata, a village in the Brasov county, followed by the Bucovina region and the Danube Delta, and in 2024, the leader of the top was Rimetea, a village in Transylvania, followed by Vatra Dornei and Borsec mountain resorts.The Tourism Press Club - FIJET Romania, founded in 2008, is the national association affiliated with the International Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers (FIJET World), bringing together journalists specialized in the written, online, radio and television press.
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race. The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
