[Cz-L] Vama

Just a couple of miles west of Vama is the small village of Prisaca Dornei,
Eisenau in German, where my family ran the village store, and which Arthur
and Greta Rindner and I visited at the time of the Reunion in 2006.

If you continue west you get to Campulung (Kimpulung), and then in due
course to Vatra Dornei (Dorna Watra), a handsome spa town in Austrian times.

If you continue further west the road climbs to the Borgo pass, beyond which
lies Bistrita, one of the "Seven Towns" (Siebenburgen) of Transylvania. The
fictional site of Dracula's castle was near to the pass. However, this is a
long way from Vama!

David

 From: Yitzhak Rosner <rosnery_at_gmail.com>
Re: [Cz-L] Vama Romania - Update
Date: 04/29/2010 11:48:09 AM

 Sorry Hardy.

 The Vama we are dealing with is far away from Dracula's castle which is in
Bran. Neither is Bistritza near to it.
Never heard of Burgo pass in the Carpatian mountains.

 Yitzkhak Rosner

Hardy wrote:

Vama in Rumanian means Customs.
  These custom posts became settlements all carrying the name Vama.
   There must be hundreds of these on places that were crossing points
   at their time .
    As Hannelore is Bucovinean she must refer to - Vama Bucovina a very
   small place near Campulung on the Suceava -Dorna Vatra Trans-
Carpathian
   road which reaches Bistritza (Transylvania ) by the Borgo pass.
    This is where count Dracula had his castle .
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