Paltinis/Romania

Păltiniş resort is located 32 km from Sibiu and is linked to the city by a modern highway that crosses a dreamscape.
Păltiniş is an interesting option for a long weekend for winter sports or walking through the famous reserve Cindrelului Iezerele glacial lakes. Once Păltiniş, you can not get bored.You can ski, climb nearby wooded ridges accessible routes or just admire the panorama that opens in your face.

You can visit the Memorial House Noica Hermitage. Whether you stay a day or a vacation day, all thing is certain: you will enjoy, you will feel better and Păltiniş your heart will stay long.The resort was founded by the Transylvanian Carpathian Society Tourists - SKV (Siebenbürgischer Karpatenverein) in 1894 as the oldest mountain resort in Romania.The resort is located on the northeast coast of Cindrel Mountains (Southern Carpathians), amidst a pine forest, 32 km south west of Sibiu, which is connected by a modernized road.

 


















The mountain resort located at the highest altitude (1442m) in the country.Mountain climate with fresh air, makes the resort to treat asthenia, Basedow disease, a pulmonary sequelae, overwork, benign hyperthyroidismThe average annual temperature is 4 degrees Celsius (July average 12 degrees C and in January of - 6 degrees C). Rains are frequent, but short-lived, and the layer of snow is present 120 days a year. A meteorological phenomenon is frequently encountered Păltiniş temperature inversion.
 









Ski conditions are excellent from December to April. The slopes of the resort are available for all winter sports enthusiasts.The initial core of resort villas retain tourists House (1894), House of Physicians (1895), Hall of Monaco (1898) and another villa, historic monuments.

An important tourist attraction in the resort is the hermitage, a wooden church built in three decade of the twentieth century is the tomb where Noica Romanian philosopher.The church was built by Metropolitan Nicolae Balan and is dedicated to 'The Transfiguration of the Lord' and has an iconostasis made between 1944-1945 by Constantin Vasile Byzantine style. Preotescu fresco is the work of Ovid. Church was built by craftsmen of inari. Among the valuables kept in the church of St. Paraskevi number icon Psalter dated 1904 and one in the same period.