{"id":395195,"date":"2022-10-12T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=395195"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:17:20","slug":"long-distance-trail-via-transilvanica-officially-inaugurated-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/long-distance-trail-via-transilvanica-officially-inaugurated-in-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-distance trail Via Transilvanica, officially inaugurated in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Via Transilvanica, the 1,400 km long-distance trail that crosses Romania from Putna to Drobeta-Turnu Severin, was officially inaugurated this past weekend. The grand opening event took place in Alba Iulia on Saturday, October 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to a variety of events, such as exhibitions, fairs and live music, the event also included the official opening of the Alba section &#8211; the last of the route\u2019s segments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a sector of 141 km, which passes through many cities full of history and is not without spectacular natural landscapes, where the Dacic heritage is strongly felt,\u201d reads a Facebook post of Via Transilvanica.<\/p>\n<p>The long-distance trail is a project of T\u0103\u0219uleasa Social, a local NGO that deals with environmental, educational, social, and cultural issues. It was launched more than four years ago, being promoted as the \u2018road that unites.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It was arranged in stages, with the first 100 km completed in 2018 in Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud county, followed by another 800 km by 2020, according to its official website. The trail got an extra 254 km in 2021 and was finally completed this year.<\/p>\n<p>Via Transilvanica can be travelled either for several weeks in full length or partially in a few days, by foot or by bike. It gives travellers the chance to discover various parts of Romania in quite a unique way &#8211; different regions with their history, people, culture, landmarks, and stories.<\/p>\n<p>A traveller\u2019s guide is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.viatransilvanica.com\/en\/guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>English article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/via-transilvanica-inauguration-october-2022\">Romania-insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook \/ Via Trasilvanica<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasilicaNews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Transilvanica, the 1,400 km long-distance trail that crosses Romania from Putna to Drobeta-Turnu Severin, was officially inaugurated this past weekend. The grand opening event took place in Alba Iulia on Saturday, October 8. In addition to a variety of events, such as exhibitions, fairs and live music, the event also included the official opening&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":395001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22922],"tags":[28053,20320],"class_list":["post-395195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-long-distance-trail","tag-via-transilvanica-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}