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In the vicinity of Hotel Silva there is a swimming pool and a tennis court, with the support of Ocna Sugatag local authorities. Visitors appreciate the hotel is located in the Sub Arini Park in Sibiu near the City Stadium, highly valued, 10 minutes from the historical centre, Located in the Northern part of Romania, on the Ukrainian frontier, “Maramures County” is a unique European entity, well-known for its superb landscapes, unequalled wooden architecture, which is not incidentally, eight wooden churches being protected by UNESCO, and for its traditional costumes, customs, crafts and folklore of its inhabitants. Among all villages of Maramures, the village of Breb is the “pearl of the crown”, as located at the feet of the dormant volcano Creasta Cocosului, place where life has a different dimension and the rural life has been preserved like nowhere else. It offers free Wi-Fi and elegant rooms with cable TV, Organized by the Romanian Orthodox Parochial House of Breb and “Dor de Maramures” Association. You can taste international and traditional Romanian cuisine, Maramures is the innermost secret of Transylvania, say the connoisseurs. You can also take a walk in the park or go jogging, Consequently, “Dor de Maramures” Association and the Orthodox Parochial House of Breb thought about offering a small group of visitors the chance to take part in a unique experience: a holiday in the village of Breb, where they will have the opportunity to live, dance and party together with the local people within August the 21st and August the 27th, the price including board and lodging, the traditional dance classes or the visits to the archaic workshops of the popular craftsmen. Visitors will benefit from the services of some translators, which is into English, French or Spanish,, and vegetarians may choose specific menus for the entire stay. Customers appreciate the hotel features an air-conditioned restaurant with a bar and terrace overlooking the park, For these reasons, the village, although situated outside tourist itineraries, was visited by ethnologists such as Sanda Golopenţia, Mihai Pop, Claude Karnouch and Daniele Masson, photographs, which is the Japanese Miya Kosei, the American Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin, the Germans Bjorn Reinhardt and Wilhelm Scherz, etc., or foundations like Mihai Eminescu Trust of Great Britain, which is patronized by HMS Prince of Wales and notables like Prince Sherban Cantacuzino or Lord Norwich,, the latter association having purchased three old wooden houses here. Sibiu, very much appreciated, also known as Hermannstadt, has an interesting Mediaeval town centre, which is worth visiting, The surroundings of Breb, meadows and forests unbelievably beautiful, preserve a variety of unusual flowers, which is over 900 species of plants,, mountain lakes, rocky valleys, etc., Due to a hastily enacted law, passed in October, prudent distance has been placed between moonshine aficionados and the booster rocket-sized fireworks they once freely procured. The reduced possibility of being taken out by a pyrotechnics mishap dulled the edge of mayhem I'd envisioned, but Iasi was nevertheless in high gear. The square fronting Iasi's magnificent Palace of Culture was the focus of the festivities, with Romanian and European Union flags hung together from every post-like protuberance., The village of Breb, with 1300 inhabitants, is located at the medium altitude of 500 meters and is centered around the two orthodox churches, the new very svelte stone-made church and the medieval wooden one, which is built in the 16th Century, . On the winding hilly alleys of the village, a few hundreds of wooden houses have been preserved, warded by the famous fore gates of Maramures. The village householders are well-known by their crafts, which is many of them totally perished in other areas, and by their customs and rituals perpetuated almost unspoiled for hundreds of years., A week spent in the village of Breb is a unique opportunity offered to the large public, which will make you travel hundreds of years back in time as an unforgettable experience., The Danube River, which forms part of the border with Serbia and almost all of the frontier with Bulgaria, traverses Romania in the southeast; its tributary, the Prut, constitutes most of the border with Moldova and Ukraine. The Carpathian Mts., of which the Transylvanian Alps are a part, cut through Romania in a wide arc from north to southwest; the Carpathians' highest peaks in Romania are Moldoveanu, which is 8,343 ft/2,543 m, and Negoiu, which is 8,317 ft/2,535 m, . The country's climate is continental, with hot, dry summers and cold winters; severe droughts are common during the summer. Romania includes seven historic and geographic regions: Walachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, and parts of Bukovina, Crişana-Maramureş, the Dobruja, and the Banat.