• The Danube is the only river in Europe to flow from West to East? Most streams flow on a North-South direction.

• The Danube Delta
Is a unique natural reservation in Europe?
An exotic land sheltering over 1200 species of trees and plants, with the richest ornithological (more than 300 species of birds, of which unique colonies of pelicans) and ichthyologic fauna on the continent (about 100 species, of which there can be mentioned the Danube herring and sturgeon which give the precious caviar).

• 1718 – first brewery in Romania

• 1728 – begins the works for canalizing the Bega river, first navigable canal in Romania

• 1745 – first Municipal Hospital is being built, first in Romania (24 years before the one in Vienna and 34 years before the one in Budapest)

• The Danube is the only river in Europe to flow from West to East? Most streams flow on a North-South direction.

• The Danube Delta

Is a unique natural reservation in Europe?

An exotic land sheltering over 1200 species of trees and plants, with the richest ornithological (more than 300 species of birds, of which unique colonies of pelicans) and ichthyologic fauna on the continent (about 100 species, of which there can be mentioned the Danube herring and sturgeon which give the precious caviar).

• The Danube Delta is the largest natural reservation from the humid lands of Europe, expanding over a surface of 2.681 km2. In 1990, UNESCO included The Danube Delta, the newest land formation in Romania, protected from the ”progress of industrialization”, on the list with the reservations of the biosphere.

• Biserica Neagra (The Black Church) in Braşov is the largest religious site built in Gothic style in South-Eastern Europe. With a capacity of over 5.000 people, the famous religious site in Braşov is 90m long and 37 m height, with a cross tower measuring 65 m in height.

• The Buchholz mechanical organ to be found in The Black Church in Braşov is the largest and the only one still functioning in South-Eastern Europe? The organ with 3993 pipes and 76 registers still offers music lovers unforgettable moments during the weekly concerts held there.

• The Black Church in Braşov houses the largest collection of Oriental carpets in South-Eastern Europe? Enriched in time, this rich heritage of Anatolian carpets coming from Asia Minor consists largely of visitors' donations.

• The Black Sea is one of the largest new seas of the planet? Specialists uphold that it was formed in the Mesozoic era, when as land emerged, the ancient ocean Tethys disappeared and many seas and water steams were formed (The Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, The Mediterranean Sea, etc).

• The Black Sea is a remnant of the Sarmatic Sea that used to stretch from central Asia to central Europe, over 50 million years ago.

• The Romanian Sphinx from Bucegi Mountains has the same height as the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau? This is one of the reasons used by those who assume it is not created by the forces of nature but carved by man as a sign of worshiping a deity of the distant past.

• Mircea cel Bătrân (1355 – 1418) was the first was ruler of Wallachia to gain a victory over the Ottoman Empire at Rovine in 1395.

• The History of Art Museum in Vienna houses the Treasure of Sânnicolau Mare, one of the largest treasures to be uncovered in Europe, totalizing 23 objects and weighing over 10 kg.

• The mud volcanoes situated in Curvature Sub- Carpathians (Winding Sub-Carpathians, part of Outer Eastern Carpathians), Buzău county, are a unique natural reservation in Europe.

• In 1895 Cernavodă Bridge (see picture) was inaugurated. Designed and built by Anghel Saligny, it was, at that time, the longest bridge in Europe.

• Dracula is in fact the nickname used by the Sasz population to overshadow the reputation of Vlad Tepeş, the Prince of Wallachia. In reality, there is no connection between the vampire legend and the Prince. Writings of the time show him as a tyrant, a monster, a vampire who drank human blood (n.t. because of the punishment method he used on the boyars). Such writings must have served as sources of inspiration for the emergence of the character Dracula.

• Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor and a pioneer of Romanian and world aviation. In 1910, after working as an engineer for Opel in Russelheim he returned to Orastie, Romania and began to build the first aircraft ”Vlaicu I”. The aircraft was well built, stabile and easily manoeuvrable, and won him several international awards placing him on the same level with other pioneers of aviation of the time, like Rolland Garos.

• 1718 – first brewery in Romania

• 1728 – begins the works for canalizing the Bega river, first navigable canal in Romania

• 1745 – first Municipal Hospital is being built, first in Romania (24 years before the one in Vienna and 34 years before the one in Budapest)

• 1760 – first city within the Habsburg Monarchy having the streets illuminated with lamps

• 1771 – it is published the first newspaper in Romania and, at the same time, the first German newspaper from southeast of Europe: “Temeswarer Nachtrichten”

• 1815 – it opens to the public the library of Josef Klapka, the first public library for lending books within the Habsburg Empire, Hungarian Kingdom and Romania

• 1854 – first telegraph service in Romania

• 1855 - first city within the Habsburg Monarchy having the streets illuminated with gas

• 1869 – it is put into operation the first tram pulled by horses

• 1869 – first passengers traveling on the Bega canal, Timisoara becoming the first city in Romania that was using this type of public transportation

• 1879 – first telephone network in Romania (53 subscribers)

• 1884 – first city in Europe with streets illuminated by electric light (there were 731 lamps)

• 1886 – first ambulance service in Romania and Hungary

• 1895 – first asphalted street in Romania

• 1899 - it is put into operation the first electric tram from Romania

• 1899 – takes place the first football game, documentary registered, in Romania (at Piaristic High school, on “Velocitas” pitch)

• 1921 – it is founded the first factory in Romania in the field of lighting luminaries, called “Dura”

• Corneliu Miklosi (1887-1963)

He was born in Timisoara in 1887.

He graduated Polytechnic University from Timisoara, Mechanics Faculty, Department: Railroad rolling stock.

He invented in 1938 for the first time in history the first machine for soldering train and tram rails, called “Taurus”

• 1949 – it takes place the first international handball game in Romania

• 1953 – first European city with state theatres in 3 languages (Romanian, Hungarian and German)

• 1988 – it is accomplished the first electronic robot in Romania, REMT 1

• 1989 – first city in Romania free of communism