The most comprehensive book on Sinaia since Gheorghe Nistorescu’s monography was launched on March 19th at Casino Sinaia. “Sinaia, Oraşul Elitelor” is written with the soul by a declared lover of Sinaia. Carrying the aroma of old chronicles inside it, the book tells the extraordinary growth story of the city that would receive the important role of Romania’s summer capital. Readers are suggested a recourse to the values of the past; they are offered landmarks for a corresponding future. More than 1,000 old and new pictures, many of them showed for the first time, graphically crown the stories about people and remarkable events. Coming out after 20 long years of documentation research, the book lies on the border between a monography, a travel book and a photo album. “Sinaia-Oraşul Elitelor” is signed by Dan Manea, a connoisseur of this city history, a man who loves Sinaia, a mountain passionate and a pioneer for many of the actions taken in order to restore the true value of the buildings and historical monuments alongside Prahova Valley.
“This book is an invitation for anyone to travel through the halls of this huge open space museum called Sinaia: The Pearl of the Carpathians, the capital of Romanian tourism, the holiday resort with two Royal railway stations where the famous Orient Express stops, the Royal residence city or the summer Capital of Romania, as the city was called in time. One cannot see the true value unless he or she knows the motto that guided me in my wish to unveil for all those wanting to discover, beyond what anyone can see, what this city truly means and the unique way it enriches the universal patrimony,” Dan Manea says. Mai mult