Bran – Moeciu Winter Day


I have just returned from a very relaxing weekend spent with my family in the Bran – Moeciu area, in Brasov county. This area is very well known and publicized so I always try hard to go to places and do things that most other tourists won’t do. This time, I think what saved me was Schitul Bran, in the small village of Simon.

At the time it was unfortunately closed, but were it open, I still could not have shown you photos of it’s inside, since photography was forbidden. On the other hand, I think the beauty of the day and of the surroundings still comes out pretty strongly from these photos:

Schitul Bran, Simon, Brasov

Schitul Bran, Simon, Brasov

Schitul Bran, Simon, Brasov

The surroundings also provided some good photo opportunities :

Forest Winterscape, HD

Forest Winterscape, HD

I will conclude this post with some practical advice: In Moeciu there is a famous ‘resort’ –which has recently opened a second, more remote version, the “Fundata”. I have tried to identify the road that appears on the map from Cheile Gradistei to Fundata (which is a village in the area), road  which appears to be closed by some guy planting a door across it (the same like on Strategica) . So after trying to find the passage, we gave up and stopped for lunch in the new resort, which was fatal for our day. I felt like at the seaside, in the  Cheile Gradistei proverbial times: everybody literally competing for the distinction of “worst services”. Keep away from this place:

Don't Go There