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With generous scenery and a valuable cultural heritage, it stands out nationally with its very high and diverse tourism potential. Here, the predominant relief is mountainous, which reaches an altitude of over 1,800 m in the northwest of the county, and over 2,000 in the south.
Our guide on this fascinating journey is Ioana Mirca, inspector with the Tourism Bureau with Alba County Council.
“In the northwest we have the Apuseni Nature Park, which is the most anthropic of protected areas in Romania, and a major tourist destination for mountain and nature lovers. In turn, the southern area of Alba County has also seen significant tourism development. The Sureanu Mountain, due to its existing skiing facilities, is a preferred destination for tourists who seek areas for winter sports. Due to the development of the Sureanu skiing area, but also the fact that Alba County is traversed by the Transalpina high altitude motorway, the influx of tourists has increa
Foreigners and Romanians immortalized landscapes, people, places and everyday situations, in the first half of the 19th century. Romanian war photography is associated with names such as that of Carol Popp of Szathmary, who took part in the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Franz Duschek was the author of some of the oldest photographs of Bucharest. The photographer of the Romanian War of Independence from 1877-1878 was Franz Mandy, Ioan Spirescu introduced color photography, and Iosif Berman was, at the beginning of the 20th century, the father of Romanian photojournalism. Adolphe A. Chevallier, a photographer of Swiss-Romanian origin from the city of Piatra Neamț, made a name for himself among all these personalities.
Born to a Swiss father and a Romanian mother in 1881, in northern Moldavia, Chevallier decided, as a child, that he would become a visual artist. He studied photographic art in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was sent by his father. He obtained a license as p
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