How is Romania promoted on one of the largest airports in the world by a great French writer
At the “Charles de Gaulle” airport in Paris, as in the big hotels in the capital of France, Romania is promoted this month in a unique and very efficient way.
Bucharest continues to attract many foreign photo tourists Denis Grigorescu
In the most recent issue of Envols magazine, a magazine of Air France distributed in tens of thousands of copies of the large Parisian airport and hotels, not less than 10 pages (most) of the 180 are dedicated to a special report in Romania by Sarah Chiche, one of the most important French writers, a finalist finalist for the Romanian Academy.
Writer, psychoanalyst and psychologist, Sarah Chiche spent several days in Romania accompanied by a French photographer, entitling his report “on the footsteps of Dracula”.
The well -known writer in France went to the cities and areas related to Vlad Țepeș, which he says is “the most famous of the immortals, raised to the status of national hero by Ceausescu”.
Sarah Chiche started his journey in Romania in Bucharest, starting his report with literary nuances and special comparisons.
“In the winter morning. A V is the sky above Bucharest, drawn by a formation of birds that migrate south. A V from Vlad, from Vampir, a sharp point to the heart of a country, to the heart of a myth. From the bridge that guards Dâmbovița, I look at, in the sky, The flight, indifferent to the stories that people tell each other to fill them with astonishment.writes Sarah Chiche in the report published in the magazine Evols.
The appreciated French writer also went to the Square of the Revolution, keeping and seeing the balcony from which Nicolae Ceausescu gave his last speech on December 21, 1989.
“Before leaving, I had recited fragments from the huge book of Mircea Cărtărescu, solenoid. Bucharest is indeed the living organism he describes, a creature with a thousand mouths that devour and constantly regurgitates his own past. Here, an Orthodox church in a garden devoured by Buruieni; ruins ”says Sarah Chiche.
It later went to Târgoviște:
“The former capital of Wallachia bears the traces of the past in its very being. The princely court extends in front of me, a labyrinth of foundations, walls that collapse and secret passages that come out of the ground like the bones of a monumental skeleton. However, I can almost hear the echoes of the banquets and intrigues here.”.
The following stops of the French writer who came to Romania on the footsteps of Vlad Țepeș were in Brașov, Cantacuzino Castle, Piatra Craiului Park and at Bran Castle, about which Sarah Chiche says that “He was never Dracula's castle: Bram Stoker never set foot in Transylvania. The transformation of Bran into” Dracula's Castle “is a smart marketing stratagem, born in the 1990s. After the Revolution, Romania was in full economic reconstruction, and he was looking for his tourism. Bran, with his photogenic gothic architecture and the strategic location between Bucharest and Brașov, had an obvious potential. Therefore, the local authorities and tour operators built this association, based on the confusion already existing in the Western mind ”.
The report continued at the fortified church in Viscri and Sighișoara, the city where it is said that Vlad Țepeș would have been born in 1431.
“The traffic jams on the road to Snagov have something deeply anacronic”
The last stop in the journey of the writer in France was at the Snagov Monastery, where it is said to have buried Vlad Țepeș. But the road so far was not easy.
“The traffic jams on the road to Snagov have something deeply anacronic in them. I laugh when I imagine Țepeș struggling with modern traffic-the one who used to transform the fog to avoid obstacles. The Snagov Monastery, the ultimate goal of our pilgrimage, welcomes us with the light. quiet by the beating of black water.concludes Sarah Chiche.
