Corner Barn News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

This storied region in Romania is a land of vast wilderness, regal countesses, and plenty of folklore.

This storied region in Romania is a land of vast wilderness, regal countesses, and plenty of folklore.

With 'wilderness-luxe' Bethlen Estates as her base, Lizzie Pook discovers that Transylvania isn't the 'spooky' place Bram Stoker portrays it as in his Dracula novel.

In Transylvania, a New Hotel Is Carrying Tradition Into the Future Fiona Kerr © Philip Vile/Bethlen Estates Transylvania Cut off from the rest of Romania by the arc of the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania still embodies a certain rural self-sufficiency. There are few better examples than the picturesque village of Criș, from which Count Miklós Bethlen fled in 1948 during the rise of the Soviet Union. But even after settling in Austria, he never abandoned the place his ancestors founded some 800 years prior: “When he returned in 1967, he found his ancestral home in ruin...

We’re all desperate for a relaxing break and there’s a world full of sumptuous new treats waiting for us in... the hottest new hotels of 2021, from Scotland to New York via the Maldives In Paris, luxury hounds will be able to dive into Cheval Blanc, owned by LVMH, which opens in the spring Reschio is a 3,700-acre estate in Umbria and in April a hotel will open within its 11th Century castle  In the Caribbean’s British Virgin Islands, hang out at Richard Branson’s new private island, Moskito Island