Sinaia : Romania
Sinaia (population: 14,636), one of the most beautiful mountain resorts of Romanian, presents itself to the visitor with a past rich in cultural and social events. Former Royal Summer Residence and bearing a holy name the name of Mount Sinai a name that was given for the first time to the homonymous monastery by Prince Mihail Cantacuzino (XVII Century) – Sinaia combines in a unique way the beauty of nature with the beauty of the architectural art. Here it is found the Pele? castle, the summer residence of king Carol I of Romania.
The town was named after the Sinaia Monastery around which the town was built. The monastery is in turn named after biblical Mount Sinai.
Sinaia is about 60 km North-West of Ploiesti and 50 km South of Brasov, in a mountainous area on the Prahova river valley, the altitude of the city varies between 767 m and 860 m.
Sinaia was also the summer residence, villa Luminis, of the great Romanian composer George Enescu.
