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Sinaia

Sinaia is one of 's finest holiday resorts, deep into the Carpathian Mountains. In the late 19th century, King Charles I of Romania chose Sinaia as his summer residence and built the fabulous Peles Castle, which is today the city's best known landmark.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pelișor Castle and Sinaia Monastery.

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The is a castle in Sinaia, Romania, part of the same complex as the larger castle of Peleș.

Monastery
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
The , located in Sinaia, in , , was founded by Prince Mihail Cantacuzino in 1695 and named after the great on in .

The is located in "Dimitrie Ghica" park, Sinaia, and was built at the initiative of King Carol I of Romania. Construction began in 1912 and was finished a year later.

Sinaia

Latitude
45.3455° or 45° 20′ 44″ north
Longitude
25.5482° or 25° 32′ 53″ east
Population
15,500
Elevation
813 metres (2,667 feet)
United Nations Location Code
RO RZT
Open location code
8GQ78GWX+67
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60012777
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
667091
Wiki­data ID
Q213296
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Vietnamese—“Sinaia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sinaia”
  • Arabic: “سينايا”
  • Armenian: “Սինայա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sinaya”
  • Belarusian: “Сіная”
  • Belarusian: “Сыная”
  • Bengali: “সিনায়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Синая”
  • Catalan: “Sinaia”
  • Cebuano: “Oraș Sinaia”
  • Cebuano: “Sinaia”
  • Chinese: “錫納亞”
  • Chinese: “锡纳亚”
  • Czech: “Sinaia”
  • Danish: “Sinaia”
  • Dutch: “Sinaia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سينايا”
  • Esperanto: “Sinaia”
  • Estonian: “Sinaia”
  • Finnish: “Sinaia”
  • French: “Sinaia”
  • French: “Sinaïa”
  • Georgian: “სინაია”
  • German: “Sinaia”
  • Greek: “Σινάια”
  • Hebrew: “סינאיה”
  • Hebrew: “סיניה”
  • Hungarian: “Sinaia”
  • Hungarian: “Szinaja”
  • Indonesian: “Sinaia”
  • Irish: “Sinaia”
  • Italian: “Sinaia”
  • Japanese: “シナイア”
  • Japanese: “シナヤ”
  • Korean: “시나이아”
  • Latin: “Sinaia”
  • Lithuanian: “Sinaja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sinaia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sinaia”
  • Macedonian: “Синаја”
  • Malay: “Sinaia”
  • Minangkabau: “Sinaia”
  • Moksha: “Синая”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinaia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinaia”
  • Novial: “Sinaia”
  • Persian: “سینایا”
  • Polish: “Sinaia”
  • Portuguese: “Sinaia”
  • Romanian: “Sinaia”
  • Russian: “Синая”
  • Scots: “Sinaia”
  • Serbian: “Sinaia”
  • Serbian: “Sinaja”
  • Serbian: “Синаја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Sinaia, Prahova”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Sinaia”
  • Silesian: “Sinaia”
  • Slovenian: “Sinaia”
  • Spanish: “Sinaia”
  • Swedish: “Sinaia”
  • Tajik: “Sinaja”
  • Tajik: “Синая”
  • Thai: “ซีนายา”
  • Turkish: “Sinaia”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіная”
  • Vietnamese: “Sinaia”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sinaia”. Photo: Erwan Martin, CC BY 2.0.