Moldova Wine Tour

Moldova Underland Cricova Wine Tour

Come and discover the Best 2017 Wine Show from Europe in the huge cellars from Cricova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Special for you, the Golden Krone Transylvania Travel has prepared the best wine country vacation from this winter. Here you have an Al Inclusive wine travel package for 7 persons with limousine.

For just 350 euros per person you will discover 2 European capitals: Iasi (Romania) and Chisinau (R. Moldova). In the price you have included the guide, the limousine, the food, the wine party, the accommodation, the tickets and the entertainment. The flights to Iasi Airport are not included.

The best winter wine weekend break in Romania and R. Moldova is waiting you!

Moldova Wine Tour:  Iasi (Romania) – Customs RO – MD – Chisinau (R. Moldova) – Cricova Cellar – M. Capriana – Bucium Cellar – Iasi (M) 

Friday – Arrival at Iasi Airport – first capital of Moldavia, Romania;

-  Visit Iasi with Limousine (wine & coffee break);

-  Passing Customs in Republic of Moldova – Border Control RO–MD;

-  Special dinner in Chisinau – second capital of Moldavia. Hotel Gold Lion

Saturday – UNDERLAND Wine and Music Festival at Cricova Wine Cellars (lunch);

- Visit Chisinau with Limousine (dinner). Hotel Gold Lion.

Sunday – Visit the Capriana Monastery (lunch) and passing Customs in Romania;

-  Visit the Bucium Wine Cellars from Iasi (wine break). Dinner. Hotel Hanul Dacilor

Monday – departure from Iasi Airport.

Flights to Iasi Airport with arrival Friday and departure Monday from: London (Luton), Wien, Paris (BVA), Bergamo, Bologna, Koln.

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Moldova Underland Cricova Wine Tour

UNDERLAND Wine and Music Festival at Cricova Wine Cellars

THE BEST 2017 WINE SHOW

Underland Cricova prepared for you the following:

– 3 stages where will perform over 30 musical artists and bands from Germany, Switzerland, Moldova, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Ukraine, France, Russia, etc.
– Red, white and sparkling wine
– 25 types of mulled wine
– Various delicious foods
– Musicians and street artists, jugglers, clowns, living statues, painters, caricaturists, etc.
– Handicrafts fair
– Workshops and master classes with prominent craftsmen
– Wine Schools with tastings and sommeliers
– The Civil Status Office where everybody can register and the marriages will be available throughout the event
– SelfieBox, selfie points, photo-points
– City hall and the famous mayor who will welcome you and guide you through the city
– Tours in the underground museum
– Hermit’s cell where you will find the most hidden secrets of the city
– Magic alley where the fortune taller will predict the future to everyone
– An underground park with painters and caricaturists who will make portraits for each
– Alley of renowned hedonists

And much-much more!

Lunch near lake in Transylvania

This is the Bear Lake from the Transylvania, Sovata. We are in the Carpathian Garden in a restaurant with a special lunch. Here we can taste traditional Romanian & Hungarian food, international recipes and vegetarian food.

For drinking, the best association between the place (the bear lake) and the drink is the Ursus Beer – the bear beer.

The Sovata Lake from the Carpathian Mountains is the biggest helio-thermal lake from Europe born in the XIX century after some geological events. The town is a Spa Resort well known in the Eastern Europe especially for the gynecological treatments. In Romania is famous the popular proverb: “Take me mother to Sovata to find my father!” (Du-mă mamă la Sovata ca să văd care mi tata!).

In the summer the baths in the Bear Lake are specials, because the dipper you enter in the salt water the hotter the water is becoming.

Get one of the Golden Krone Transylvania Tours and enjoy of the Wild Carpathia!

Queen of Transylvania coat of arms

The Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball 2016 from the New Year’s Eve is moving to Moldavia this year. How the Dracula Castle from Arcalia, Transylvania is entering in a rehabilitation process, the Queen of Transylvania guests will be received at Sturdza Castle from Miclauseni, Moldavia, Romania.

The first Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball from the film My Fair Lady (1964) was in London, so, is perfect normal that the ball should change its destination castle by castle according to the Transylvanian Affairs.

After 2 editions at the Dracula Castle from Arcalia, Transylvania the Golden Krone Transylvania Team decided to invite all the Queens guests at the Strurdza Castle from Miclauseni. This Moldavian Castle is situated at 60 km from the capital of Moldavia, Iasi and is a beautiful neo-gothic castle build at the begging of the XIX century.

The old kingdom of Moldavia is divided now between 3 countries: Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. This winter escorted travel package is the best opportunity to find more about this part of Europe, especially now when the Russia of Vladimir Putin wants to take back its influence from the communist times.

My Fair Lady 1964

Between the Romanian region of Moldavia and Transylvania is another little country: Bukovina also divided between Romania and Ukraine. In this winter all inclusive travel package you will visit the best of Bukovina: the UNESCO World Heritage Painted Churches from Voronet (the Sixteen Chapel of the East) and from Humor. In this way you will discover a new architectural style from the Middle Age: the Moldavian Style (Roman’s cathedral).

At just 350 euros per person you shall have 4 days New Year’s Eve Holiday with guide, limousine, accommodation, ball, drinks, food, tickets and entertainment all included, except the flights to the Iasi Airport.

All the Queen of Transylvania Guests will be waited in the Iasi Airport and take it with limousine to the best New Year’s Eve Party 2016 – 2017 from Romania. Come and become the Cultural Ambassador of your country!

New Year’s Eve Party 2016-2017

Autumn season in Transylvania

Today is the start up for the autumn events 2016 from Transylvania!

We are speaking of three months of intense activity in all the country. The Opera Houses and the Philharmonic orchestras will start a new session of shows and concerts. The restaurants are preparing the Transylvanian autumn food and drinks. The working time is getting to full action. And more than this, the nature is dressing in its special clothes…

All this are inviting you to visit this autumn Transylvania. The weekend break packages made it by the Golden Krone Transylvania Travel are the perfect chance to fall in love with this country. Enjoy of Transylvania by a guided tour with limousine. In a private tour you have the privacy and also the best connection with all what Transylvania can give.

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If you want to come to Transylvania in the winter holiday this are the top 10 reasons to travel here.

1. Christmas and New Year’s Eve Traditions from Transylvania. For the Romanians the winter holidays are the best period of the year, with the most interesting and attractive traditions. In fact we do not speak just about some holidays; we speak of a period between the Christmas, New Year until the Epiphany. This period is full of religious celebrations, old customs and parties. The children tradition of visiting all the houses and singing carols for Christmas is still alive. For the New Year’s Eve Transylvania have unique traditions: the little plough, the goat dance, the garlic amulet, the onion calendar, the heralds of the star, the grape wreath and the <Sorcova> incantation.

2. Three Dracula Castles in Transylvania to visit. Bram Stoker novel made the biggest brand of Transylvania – Dracula. Everybody knows something about the Prince Vlad the Impaler and about the vampire legends.

In Transylvania are 3 Dracula Castles: the Bran Castle from Brasov County, the Communist Dracula Castle from Borgo Pass and the Dracula winter Castle from Arcalia, Bistrita. In the winter is magic to see them. How each one has his particularity the snow makes them to look mysterious, like in a romance movie.

3. Beautiful mountains covered with snow in Transylvania. The Carpathian Mountains are all around the country and give to the tourist the impression that the snow is following you all over the time. Transylvania is the land after, over, across the forest, the land beyond the forest. In times of the winter the forest is becoming a huge dancing snow body. The entire atmosphere is similar to a tale from the childhood.

4. Food and drinks in Transylvania. If you want to make a voyage to Romania, the best is the Transylvanian food because is a mixture between the Romanian, Hungarian and Saxon cuisine. Also, you have to look for biological products. Romania still has ecological vegetables and animals fed just with organic cereals. For this your travel to Transylvania is a foray into the bio food. Usually in the winter holiday the Romanians are eaten pork meet.

Transylvania has a big diversity of alcoholic drinks (beer, wine, sparkling wine, distilled beverage, spirit and liquors) and non alcoholic drinks (juices, mineral waters, normal waters).

5. Parties in Transylvania. The New Year vacation in Transylvania is a real festival, full of parties, feasts and festivities. The Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball from the New Year’s Eve is one of these conviviality events.

6. SPA travel in Transylvania. Step by step Romania is becoming a balneary destination; here you find resorts for all type of body treatments. In Transylvania you have thermal waters (Geoagiu Bai, Tasnad, Boghis, Tusnad, etc.), spring waters and mineral waters (Sangeorz Bai, Baita, Baile Sarate, Cojocna, Jigodin, Homorod, Balvanyos, Biborteni, Bodoc, Borsec, Bazna, Colibita, Covasna, Lipova, Ocna Mures, Ocna Sibiului, Praid, Sangeorgiu de Mures, Sovata, Straja, Baile Figa). In the winter you can swim outside in hot thermal waters and see near you snow and ice.

7. Interesting towns and UNESCO patrimony in Transylvania. Your trip to Transylvania in the winter holiday must get to the important Transylvanian towns (Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Brasov, Targu Mures) and also to the important world heritage sites: Sighisoara, Dacian fortresses of the Orastie Mountains and the villages with fortified Churches.

8. Good prices for Transylvanian tours. The prices from Transylvania are reasonable prices accessible to all the social categories. The winter holiday is an excellent period of time to travel here and for this is good to find the best offers. Golden Krone Travel Team is looking for our friends for the best prices and the finest quality.

9. Winter sports and adrenaline passage in Transylvania. The Carpathian Mountains are good for winter sports. You have sky resorts in Transylvania at Borgo Pass, Valea Blaznei, Toplita, Borsec, Izvorul Muresului, Madars, Poiana Brasov, Predeal, Balea Lac, Paltinis, Baisoara, etc.

10. The Hospitality from Transylvania is at a fine level. If you want to make a winter ride to Transylvania look also for the quality in treating the tourists and not just at the prices. The best tour is a guided travel in Transylvania. Our recommendation is to find a guide that can make interesting discussion with you on all the areas of human like. In this way the time that you are spending in the ride from a destination to another one is not boring.

All this 10 reasons are inviting you to try a winter holiday in Transylvania. Come and enjoy of the New Year Special Events from Transylvania!

Saint Michael Cathedral Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca is the capital of Transylvania and the second town of Romania after Bucharest. Like all the world capitals, Cluj-Napoca is a cosmopolitan and a multiethnic city (German: Klausenburg; Hungarian: Kolozsvár; Medieval Latin: Castrum Clus; Claudiopolis Yiddish: קלויזנבורג‎, Kloiznburg).

The name of the capital of Transylvania is a mixture between the pre-Roman name of the settlement: Napoca and the Medieval Latin name: Clus. The result is Cluj-Napoca, known in common as Cluj.

National Theater Cluj-Napoca

For the Romanians, Cluj is the academic town. Here are the most important universities of Romania: Babes-Bolyai University (the largest university of Romania – 50.000 students), the Technical University, the Iuliu Hatieganu Medicine and Pharmacy University, the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, the University of Arts and Design and the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy.

Cluj-Napoca Center

All this are making of Cluj a lively town in development. The international community of Cluj is one of the biggest from Romania.

If you are traveling to Transylvania you have to visit also the capital. In fact, Cluj is a combination of the best of Transylvania: culture, entertainment, art, study, nature, industry, shopping, sport, transports and business.

Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral

Also the architecture of the city is a voyage into the European history. Here you find buildings in the roman, gothic, renascence, baroque, classic, eclectic, secession styles.

The biggest tourist attractions in Cluj-Napoca are: the Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral, the Saint Michael Cathedral, Palaces and Museums (history, art, pharmacy, speleological and ethnological), the National Theater and the Opera Hall, the Cluj Arena, the Central Park and the Botanic Garden.

Cluj-Napoca has many old buildings, churches and sculptures and also communists neighborhoods. The most popular statue of Cluj is the Matthias Corvinus Monument from the Union Square, but the best sculpture in the town is the Saint George Sculpture from the Reformat Church Square.

From the Fortress hill of Cluj-Napoca you can see the entire town. Come to Cluj and taste the Transylvanian spirit!

Cluj-Napoca Transylvania

Cluj-Napoca tourist attractions

Florin & Ioan Travel Team in Transylvania

We are giving you a very welcome to the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball 2016. Each year the Queen of Transylvania is giving his cultural ambassador title and mandate to travelers from all over the world into a delicate ball.

Like in My Fair Lady movie (1964) the Embassy Ball is a recreation of the aristocratic XIX century New Year Eve’s Party.

Outdoor: Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball

For two years we are choosing The Dracula Winter Castle from Arcalia for this unique event. We invite you to become the cultural ambassador of your country at the New Year Eve’s Transylvanian Party 2016.

The Queen of Transylvania New Year’s Eve Embassy Ball is a very unusual experience. By coming to this different event you shall become the ambassador of your country in Transylvania: you will have to present in 10 minutes the best of your country, your region and your town.

Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball

Secondly, the Queen of Transylvania will make you the ambassador of Transylvania to your country. In this way you will have to express your Transylvanian experience to your family and friends. This voyage will make of you a real cultural ambassador.

Thirdly, you will have to be dressed in formal wear, formal dress: black tie for the gentlemen and long prom dresses or long formal dresses for the ladies.

The attendees of this exquisite event will have a special dinner with the Bram Stoker recipes from the Dracula book.

Queen of Transylvania coat of arms

The Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball is a pleasant occasion to find more about the old New Year Eve’s traditions from Transylvania and Romania: the garlic amulet, the onion meteorological calendar, the „Little plough” song (in Romanian „Pluguşorul” is the myth of the nation creation), the „Goat dance” (in Romanian „Capra” is an antique dance from 1,600 BC that reflects the death and rebirth of vegetation), the „Sorcova” performance (a magic wand and incantation to transmit health, youth and fertility) and many other ancestral transylvanian traditions.

The Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball is more then on usual ball dance, is an incursion into the best of Transylvania mythology and old social life. Come to Transylvania and become the cultural ambassador of your country!

Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball

The Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball is a recent tradition from Transylvania. This event is inspired by My Fair Lady Film (1964).

This movie is a film version of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Since the first performance of the play in Hofburg Theatre in Vienna, Austria, 1913 the story of the flower girl Eliza Doolittle and the Professor Henry Higgins became a classic story of the XX century popular culture. The George Bernard Shaw play inspired a lot of musical versions and films.

My Fair Lady 1964

The most famous film adaptation is My Fair Lady from 1964 starring Audrey Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Higgins.

After the great success of the 1964 movie musical many people have asking them self about the Queen of Transylvania and the Embassy Ball. Many tourists when are traveling to Transylvania want to know more about the Queen of Transylvania, about the Royal Family of Transylvania and about the Embassy Ball?

In fact, Transylvania never was a kingdom and never had a queen. Transylvania was a principality and now is a region into the center of the Republic of Romania. But Transylvania inspires the writer’s imagination: Bram Stoker (Dracula), Jules Verne (Carpathian Castle), Terry Pratchett (Discworld), Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian), David Clement-Davies (The Sight), F. Paul Wilson (The Keep), Liviu Rebreanu (John), Ioan Slavici (Mara), etc. And also inspires the imagination of the travelers.

For this reason, we continue the tradition of the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball from My Fair Lady (1964).

Dracula Winter Castle

We have chosen The Dracula Winter Castle from Arcalia to be the place of the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball. This Transylvanian Castle from the north of the country, close to Bistrita city is a unique palace with a huge botanic park. This is the perfect place where the „becoming” ambassadors, the travelers from over the world can taste the XIX century aristocratic balls atmosphere.

The time for the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball is the New Year’s Eve Night. This is the best time for the „becoming” ambassadors to travel to Transylvania and also the start of a New Year cultural ambassador mandate.

The food and the drink of the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball are the Transylvanian traditional food and drink described in the Bram Stoker book, Dracula.

The Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball

The clothes for the ball attendees is formal wear, formal dress. Into the Invitation at the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball is specified black tie and long prom dresses or long formal dresses. To accentuate the formal event, last year the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball had a second name: Top Hat New Year Party, in Romanian „Joben Revelion”.

The entrance to the Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball is making with the host carriages. The „becoming” ambassadors are letting there cars into the castle parking, where the horse carriage is waiting to bring them to the dancing ball.

In My Fair Lady movie, the Zoltan Karpathy is saying: „The Queen of Transylvania is here this evening; I’m indispensable to her at these official international parties.”

The Queen of Transylvania Embassy Ball is an elegant international affair where you can be the ambasador of your country. Come to Transylvania and become the cultural ambassador of your country!

Golden Krone Transylvania Resort

Lechinta Saxon Village (Romanian: Lechinţa; German: Lechnitz; Hungarian: Szászlekence)  is the northern vineyard from the oldest Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wines were drunk at the imperial court of the Habsburg from Vienna.

This vineyard was founded by the antic Dacia’s, but the European fame was given by the Saxons colonists, who cultivated grape varieties Nova, Traminer pink (syn. Gewurztraminer), Furmint and Riesling Rhin.

Golden Krone Transylvania Resort

Now the Saxons from Lechintz have immigrated to Germany and led their heritage behind: the Saxon church, the Saxons houses and the legendary wine taste.

Come to Lechinta Saxon Village at the Saxon House of the Golden Krone Transylvania Resort and taste in our cellars the enigmatic wine of Prince Dracula. At just 28 km from Bistritz city – the Dracula town, we shall invite you soon in your voyage to know the miracles of the Transylvanian Wines!

What to see in the Lechinta Wine County?

Golden Krone Transylvania Resort offers you a good tourist combination at an affordable price! At us you find hospitality, accommodation, food and drink, leisure, adrenaline, information and knowledge of religion, history and mentality of the four nations from Transylvania: Romanians, Saxons, Hungarians and Gypsies.

Our products are a tourist foray into everything that offers Transylvania, leaving you the liberty to choose between an all included package and the joy of creating your own trip.

Golden Krone Transylvania Resort includes:

1. The Mansion Golden Krone (hotel) from Bistritz (Bistriţa);

2. The Traditional Saxon house from Lechinţa;

3. The Roman Limes Tower from the “Taul lui Alac” Nature Reserve from Zagra;

4. Villa Salis – The Salty Mud SPA Base from Sărăţel – Sărata (salted);

5. The Borgo Pass Cottage and the Dacian Barn;

Golden Krone Transylvania trip includes:

1. Recreation activities and relaxation in our locations from Transylvania, Bistrita-Năsăud District: lubrication mud, swimming, sunbathing, horseback riding, carriage rides, cycling, walking, hiking through the woods, traditional cork navigation, fishing, skiing, and so on;

2. Jonathan Harker ‘s Road to Dracula ‘s real castle from BorgoPass;

3. Romanian, Hungarian, Saxon and Gypsy traditional food and drinks;

4. Tasting mineral water from Sângeorz-Băi baths, Lechinţa wines, Salcuţa cheeses;

5. Wildlife on the loose in our locations: waders (pheasant, wild duck, stork, eagle, etc.), Reptiles (turtles, snakes, fishes, etc.), and wild animals (deer, hares, foxes, wild boars, squirrels, etc.).

6. Animals (cows, sheep, goats, horses, pigs, dogs, cats, etc.) and birds (peacocks, turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, quail, etc.).

7. Cities tours in Bistrita and Cluj-Napoca or Targu-Mures;

8. Artistic, cultural and entertainment events;

9. Participation to the Byzantine Divine Liturgy;

And many other unique attractions!