With its rich cultural and historic heritage, Romania has long been a source of fascination for great British travellers like Patrick Leigh Fermor and it currently enjoys a fantastic revival in Britain and elsewhere as a touristic destination. With George Bradshaw's 1913 'Continental Railway Guide' in hand, journalist and broadcaster Michael Portillo ventured through Romania, embarking on a revealing railway journey that started in Transylvania and continued all the way south through Sinaia, Ploieşti, Bucharest, and ended in Constanţa, on the Black Sea coast. The result is a revelatory 45-minute long TV travelogue full of unexpected discoveries.

The Romanian Cultural Institute in London is screening Michael Portillo’s fascinating TV travelogue about Romania, 'Transylvania to the Black Sea', part of BBC Two’s popular 'Great Continental Railway Journeys'. This will be followed by a conversation, moderated by RCI Director Dorian Branea, about the great traveller and TV personality’s Romanian experience.

With opening remarks by H.E. Mr Dan Mihalache, the Romanian Ambassador to the Court of St James’s.

Followed by the private view of 'Romania: Beams of Beauty', a landscape and portrait photographic exhibition by light magician Sorin Onişor.

The event is organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London in partnership with the Romanian Authority for Tourism and the British Guild of Travel and Tourism, with the support of the Romanian Embassy in London.
 
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