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Dracula's Wines and Spirits Promoting products from the legendary land of Dracula, Transylvania!

There are drinks based on very old recipes that keep the originality and flavor specific to this legendary land.

02/06/2022

The wedding of exiled King Michael of Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma took place at the Royal Palace of Athens on June 10, 1948.

The bride and groom wore their Greek Orders as a sign of recognition and thanksgiving to their hosts, the Royal Greek Family: King Michael wore the Order of the Redeemer and the Order of Saints George and Constantine, and Queen Anne wore the Order of Saints Olga and Sophia.

Royal attendees included Michael's mother The Queen Mother of Romania, aunts Queen Frederica, The Dowager Duchess of Aosta and Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark; cousins Prince Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, Princesses Sophia and Irene of Greece and Denmark, and Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, the three latter's as bridesmaids and pageboy; and many others.

King Michael was 26 years old when he was forced to abdicate by the communist regime, on December 30, 1947, and leave the country, which he was not able to see for 44 years. During his exile, he lived in several countries, namely Switzerland, Italy and England. During the exile in Switzerland, King Michael lived in five different houses.

Romania’s late King Michael had blood ties with the Imperial and Royal Families of Great Britain, Russia, Germany, Denmark, Greece and Portugal, the Great Ducal Family of Baden, and the Hohenzollern Royal Family, from which his grandfather came from. He was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (both from his mother and his father side), as well as the great-grandson of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, the great-grandson of Tsar Alexander II and, on the mother's line, the descendant of Tsar Nicholas I, the great-grandson of Queen Maria II of Portugal, the great-grandson of Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the great-grandson of King George I of the Greeks.

01/06/2022

SLANIC SALT MINE - Romania 🇹🇩

Slanic mine is an old salt mine, located in Slanic, Prahova County, Romania, just 100 km north of Bucharest, situated between the valley of Prahova and that of Teleajen, at about 44 km of Ploiesti, at 400 meters of altitude.

The salt mine is closed for extraction purposes, but is open for visitors, featuring a microclimate with natural air-conditioning and constant temperature and atmospheric pressure throughout the year. It is made up of two levels, named Unirea and Mihai.

The mine is composed of 14 chambers with trapezoidal profiles, having a 10 m opening to the ceiling and 32 m to the ground, a height of 54 m, and a wall inclination angle of 60 degrees. The shore difference between the surface and the mining base is 208 m. It was transformed into a sanatorium for the treatment of pulmonary diseases in a saline air microclimate. Many of the visitors come for its supposed healing effects due to the purity of the air.

The Unirea mine chamber - notice the trapezoidal profile of the chamber and the wooden balcony at the top.

According to the documents, for more than 300 years represented an important salt extraction center.

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