Culture in a box

A Spring Day Project

Your flag?

The red represents the blood that has been spilled on the battle field.

The yellow represents the sun that is shining on the sky.

The blue represents the sky and it’s fantastic color.

A symbol of your country

This is one of the symbols that represent our country. What a stag! It’s greatness represents the strong feeling of beeing a true human.

Where are you?

Show in a map of Europe your location Show in a map of your country your town

How’s the climate?

What is the average temperature during different seasons? Can you include four photos, to show us how the seasons differ from each other in your country?

Romania has a temperate continental intermediate climate awarded by her geographical position.Mean anual temperature is 10*C,there are 4 seasons with wind and irregular rainfalls.The climate is influenced also by the relief.As a result we could differ 3 climate zones:plain,hills and mountains.

Capital / population

Which is the capital of your country?

The population?

Population: 22,364,022 (July 2001 est.) The capital of our country is Bucharest.

Greetings in your language

Good morning = Buna dimineataGood afternoon = Buna ziuaGood night = Noapte bunaHow are you? = Ce mai faci?

A landscape that you love

This view has many secrets, that in one way or another, nature has developed the most complete and perfect place on Earth.(Delta Dunarii)

A favourite poem of yours

O remain, dear one “O remain, dear one, I love you, Stay with me in my fair land, For your dreamings and your logings Only I can understand. You, who like a prince reclining O’er the pool with heaven starred You who gaze up from the water With such earnest deep regard.” ....................................

A product of your country

Furniture is a product of our country,which has a tradition in some regions, like Maramures, or Moldova.

A recipe from your country

Our traditional food is sarmale with hot porridge.This kind of food(sarmale)is based on pork or beef,also contains rice and vegetables like carrot,onion,parsley, all wraped in cabbage leaf.It has a really great taste if you add some sour cream. The porridge is made of grinded corn. Pofta buna!

A proverb that you like

“They bray most that can do least”

A famous person

Ion Irimescu is a famous person from our city. He is very old. He is the single centenar from our country who has a very interesting artistic career: sculpture. The museum “Ion Irimescu”, is one of the biggest museum from Europe which has sculptures made by one artist, only.