Ceahlaul Restaurant- Bicaz

1968 card. written and sent. Intact stamp

Romanian soldier monument- Timisoara

1970s used postcard with fixed stamp.

Constanta- Seaside promenade

1968 card. Written and stamped(the stamp is damaged).
Mihai Eminescu's statue and the Casino are visible in the picture.

Completed between the two World Wars in art nouveau style according to the plans of the architects, Daniel Renard and Petre Antonescu, the Casino features sumptuous architecture and a wonderful view of the sea. The pedestrian area around the Casino is a sought-after destination for couples and families, especially at sunset.(wikipedia)

Govora Monastery

1981 card. Written and stamped.

The construction of the monastery started during the reigns of Vlad Dracul(the Devil) and his son Vlad the Impaler(mid XV century) and reconstructed at the end of the century by Vlad Calugarul(the Monk) and Radu the Great. It suffered several rebuilt and restauration processess up to 1969.

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.

Elberfeld

Unwritten card for swap. Around 1920s-1930s

The Bolyai Farkas College

The sculpture represents Bolyai Farkas and Bolyai Janos. You can also see the "pseudosfera"- the surface on which Bolyai's geometry was demonstrated.

Vezelay

Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne department in Burgundy in north-central France. It is a defendable hill town famous for Vézelay Abbey. The town and the Basilica of St Magdelene are designated UNESCO World Heritage sites.

In the 9th century the Benedictines were given land to build a monastery. The current Basilica was built in the 11th century 

Vézelay's hilltop location has made it an obvious site for a town since ancient times. According to legend, not long before the end of the first millennium a monk named Baudillon brought relics  of Mary Magdalene to Vézelay from Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. In 1058 Pope Stephen IX confirmed the genuineness of the relics, leading to an influx of pilgrims that has continued to this day. Vézelay Abbey was also a major starting point for pilgrims on theWay of St. James to Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important of all medieval pilgrimage centres. This was crucially important in attracting pilgrims and the wealth they brought to the town.

Bernard of Clairvaux preached the Second Crusade at Vézelay in 1146. In 1189, the Frankish and English factions of the Third Crusade met at Vézelay before officially departing for the Holy Land.

All the cards are unused.

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