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