Reghin

City council. Unwritten. 1950s or early 1960s view.
For swap.

Genovese Lighthouse

Used card. Sent in the mid 1990s. Both stamps on the back intact.
The lighthouse in placed in Constanta(Romanian city at the Black Sea).

It is 8 m high and it was built around 1300 and restored between 1858-1860 by the French-Armenian engineer Artin Aslan.

Old Woman's Gorges

Used card. 1975. Pre-stamped.

The Old Woman's Gorges is a natural reserve(of geological type) since 1977

Alba Iulia views

Alba Iulia (Hungarian: Gyulafehérvár, German: Karlsburg or Weißenburg, Latin: Apulum in the Roman period, later Alba Iulia; Ottoman Turkish: Erdel Belgradı) is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania with a population of 58,681, located on the Mureş River. Since the High Middle Ages, the city has been the seat of Transylvania's Roman Catholic diocese. Between 1541 and 1690 it was the capital of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and the latter Principality of Transylvania. Alba Iulia is historically important for Romanians, Hungarians and Transylvanian Saxons.

1956 general view of the city card. Written and stamped.

Fortress' walls. 1958 used card. Written and stamped.



The main historical area of Alba Iulia is the Upper Town region, developed by Charles VI of the Holy Roman Empire in honour of whom the Habsburgs renamed the city Karlsburg. The fortress, with seven bastions in a stellar shape, was constructed between 1716 and 1735, by two fortification architects of Swiss origin. The first one was Giovanni Morandi Visconti, who constructed two old Italian stile bastions, followed by Nicolaus Doxat de Demoret, nicknamed "Austrian Vauban". The two architects radically transformed (after 1720) the medieval fortress shaped by the former Roman Castrum into a seven-bastion baroque fortress, developing Menno van Coehorn's new Dutch system, of which the fortress of Alba Iulia is the best preserved example.

Sovata

Multiple view from Romanian resort Sovata. New card. 1990s card.

Teachers' School from Constanta

1946 postcard, written and stamped.

Resita

1973 view of Resita. Used card.

Seaside view

Used postcard- 1973. Romanian seaside resort "Eforie Nord".

Targu Mures- The citadel

 Both cards are new.

Vlad the Impaler

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476), was a member of the House of Drăculești, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known by his patronymic name:Dracula. He was posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler, and was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462, the period of the incipient Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. His father, Vlad II Dracul, was a member of the Order of the Dragon, which was founded to protect Christianity in Eastern Europe. Vlad III is revered as a hero in Bulgaria as well for his protection of the Bulgarian population both south and north of the Danube. A significant number of Bulgarian common folk and remaining boyars (nobles) moved north of the Danube, recognized his leadership and become part of Wallachia, following his raids on the Ottomans.

Vlad III spent much of his rule campaigning against the Ottoman Empire and its expansion. As the cognomen 'The Impaler' suggests, his practice of impaling his enemies is central to his historical reputation. During his lifetime, his reputation for excessive cruelty spread abroad, to Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The total number of his victims is estimated in the tens of thousands. The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad's patronymic. (wikipedia)

Both cards are new.


Vlad Dracul's house is in Sighisoara and it is, probably, the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler.

Sighisoara

The city in the XVIIIth century.
New postcard. For swap.


Sighisoara is one of the 7 fortified Saxon cities in Transylvania, known as "Siebenburgen", together withBrasov (Kronstadt), Cluj (Klausenburg), Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Bistrita (Bistritz) Medias (Mediasch), Sebes (Mühlbach). According to the legend the lost children of Hamelin emerged from the ‘Almasch’ (Varghis) cave into Transylvania - just to the north of Baraolt in 1284, lured there by the magical tune of the Pied Piper, a 'Romany' who had been cheated by the burghers after ridding them of their plague of rats. This is the 'romantic' explanation for the presence in Transylvania of Germans following ancient customs, yet isolated by hundreds of kilometers from Germany. The reality is that the fortified towns and villages of Transylvania were established in the 12th Century by settlers from the Moselle region, referred to locally as 'Saxons'( Romanian-'sashi'). They were attracted to Transylvania by favorable market rights by the Hungarian rulers who wanted them there to guard the mountain passes against Tatar and Ottoman raiders. They created the 'Siebenbürgen', the seven fortified cities, while in villages they constructed fortified churches in which they could shelter during times of siege. UNESCO has designated several of these villages and the mediaeval citadel of Sighisoara as Heritage Sites

Bezidu Nou- multiview

"The flood is coming".
New postcard. For swap

Black Sea view

Constantza(Romania). Written, but not stamped, nor posted. Date on the card: July 6th, 1956
For swap.

Bucharest

Sent from Bucharest to Reghin in January 1958. The stamp is still intact.
For swap.