Pentecost mini -vacation, official start for the summer season. Favorite destinations by Romanians

Tens of thousands of tourists are expected to enjoy the Pentecost of Pentecost on the Black Sea coast, but the offers of the seaside resorts are only one of the free days' party options. The holiday is also important for religious tourism.

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Celebrated on the fifth day after the Passover, Pentecost became a religious holiday expected by many Romanians, both because of its religious importance and for bringing an extended weekend.

Since 2008, the first and second day of Pentecost have been declared legal holidays, and Monday became a day off.

The mini -vacation at the beginning of summer fills the coast

In 2025, the Pentecost (the descent of the Holy Spirit) are celebrated on Sunday, June 8, and Monday, June 9, the next day of Pentecost, is a legal day. In addition, on Thursday, June 5, on the teacher's day, students and teachers in pre -university education benefit from a free day stipulated in the collective labor contract, which should not be recovered later. Thus, the luckiest of them, who can give up certain activities on Friday, could enjoy almost a week of holiday.

The Pentecost mini -vacation will mean at least three free days for many Romanians. Among the most popular destinations for this period are the resorts on the Black Sea coast.

On the coast, the mini-vacation of Pentecost will bring tens of thousands of tourists, the degree of occupancy of accommodation in hotels and pensions being estimated at over 60% between 6 and 9 June, and reservations are over 20% more than the same period of 2024, according to lithoralulromanesc.ro.

Most hotels will be open, and accommodation rates start from 87 lei per night in some motels, without a table included. In general, however, with breakfast included, tourists who make reservations will pay at least 250 lei per night. All resorts have launched offers for coastal accommodation, thus announcing the official opening of the summer season.

Stays in the Danube Delta and at the mountain

At the weekend, tourists are invited to Mamaia, in the Casino Square, where the season is opened by the “Waves of Fun

Near the coast, the Danube Delta is regarded as an “exotic” or at least romantic tourist option, for the Pentecost. The stays in the Danube Delta start from 1,000 lei for a person, between 6 and 8 June 2005 and include the evening travelers on the river, trips to the Sulina arm and to the Letea Forest Reserve.

Thousands of Romanians have scheduled their vacation as Pentecost in the resorts on the Prahova Valley, where the weekends can be reserved at prices starting from 750 lei.

“The mountain resorts in Prahova, such as Sinaia, Busteni and Azuga, are in the top of the preferred destinations during this period, registering an employment of over 80 percent.transmits the Association for the Promotion and Development of Tourism (APDT) Prahova.

Great Catholic pilgrimage from Șumuleu

Religious tourism receives an impulse of Pentecost. Numerous churches in Romania have the dedication in this holiday, and the ordinary monasteries as pilgrimage places also expect a high number of believers. The largest pilgrimage to Pentecost is scheduled in Șumuleu Ciuc, where tens of thousands of Roman Catholic cervincios are expected. The religious service also announced the President of Hungary, Tamas Sulyok.

The old Franciscan church in Șumuleu was founded by Ioan de Hunedoara in 1445 or 1448, to commemorate Victoriei from Sântana de Mureș against the Ottomans. Over the centuries, the church has been more devastated, and eventually it was demolished in 1802 and rebuilt in Baroque style. The Church houses the statue of the Holy Virgin, old from the fourteenth century, considered a masterpiece of wood sculpture.

How will the time of Pentecost be

According to the National Meteorological Administration, on the weekend extended by Pentecost, the weather in Romania will be predominantly warm, with high temperatures and accentuated thermal discomfort, especially in the plains and in the southwest of the country. However, the periods of atmospheric instability, manifested by showers, electric discharges and wind intensifications, especially in the afternoon and in the mountain areas will be lacking.

Friday, June 6, 2025, The weather will be warm in most of the country, with maximum temperatures, generally between 27 and 34 degrees, lower on the coast, where 22-24 degrees will be recorded. Thermal discomfort will be accentuated. It may appear torrential rains, with significant amounts of water and, isolated, the possibility of vines and hail. The minimum temperatures will be between 10-11 degrees in the depressions of the Eastern Carpathians and 20-21 degrees in the western hills. Isolated, in the second part of the night, will be fog, especially in the intramontane depressions and, temporarily, on the coast.

“In Bucharest, the weather will be kept warm, with accentuated thermal discomfort. The sky will be variable, and in the second part of the day are possible short -term rains, electric shocks and temporary wind intensifications. The maximum temperature will be around 32 degrees, and the minimum will be between 16 and 18 degrees”transmits ANM.

Saturday, The weather will remain warm in most areas of the country, with a hollow in Banat and southwest Oltenia. The maximum temperatures will generally be between 29 and 35 degrees, and on the coast will be maintained at 23-25 ​​degrees. The sky will be variable, with short -term clouds and rains, possibly accompanied by electric shocks, especially in the mountains and isolated in the other regions. The wind will be weak to moderate. In the second part of the night, fog will be reported in some depressions and passing on the coast.

“In Bucharest, the warm weather and thermal discomfort will persist, with variable sky and a weak to moderate wind. The maximum temperature will be around 33 degrees, and the minimum between 14 and 17 degrees”, informed ANM.

Sundaythe weather will remain warm in almost the whole country, but at the beginning of next week the thermal values ​​will decrease gradually. There will be manifestations of atmospheric instability, especially rains, in the west, center and north, and later in the rest of the territory. In Bucharest, Sundays and Mondays will be warm, then the temperature will start to drop easily, and the probability of rains will increase.

The feast of pre -Christian origins

In the Christian tradition, Pentecost represents the feast of the descent of the Holy Spirit (the descent of the Holy Spirit), being celebrated on the fifth day after the Easter feast, on a Sunday. This reminds of the descent of the Holy Spirit over the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth and on the Holy Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Lord, gathered in Cenacol.

The Romanian word “Pentecost” derives from the Latin Rosalia (Rozalia), which in turn comes from the Greek term Rousália and is also found in the Slavonic, Rusalija.

In the Old Testament, the Pentecost was mentioned as an agricultural holiday of the Jews, in which they offered offers from the fruits of the earth. Over this holiday, the celebration of the descent of the Holy Spirit was overlapping.

The name and customs of the Pentecost were also borrowed by the ancient Romanians. With the Christianity of the Roman Empire, the feast has gained Christian significance, overlapping the pagan meanings and habits, which have been lost in time.

Pentecost, deities of forests

In the Romanian mythology, the Pentecost, also called, are female mythical beings that appear at night, before the song of the roosters, during the period between Easter and Pentecost. They are considered the rebel spirits of the dead who, after leaving the graves to the hawks and spent the Easter with the living, refuse to return to their sub -earthly places. Like Sânzienele, the other spirits celebrated during the summer, Pentecosts appear in Cete, testing people.

“Their home would be through the unpaved and untouched cods of the ax or the foot of man, through the sky, on the plains, on the deserted waters. I beat drums and trumpets, play (hour, belt, etc.), spread meals on green grass, drink, spend “writes the ethnologist Ion Ghinoiu.

They can be associated with the fairy of the forest, also called the “beautiful ones” in the area of ​​Hunedoara, which adorn the mountains with flowers and take care that nature will remain undisturbed by people. They have old origins and were identified by ethnologists with deities from the mythology of Thracian and Greco-Roman, such as Bendis, Artemis or Diana.

“In the beliefs of the locals, those beautiful ones walk through trees with large leaves, through apples, oaks, we were strange our beautiful, they did not lose their selenious meanings of the old artemis, the one identified with the Moon, when they punished those who approached them through the charo who called during the night. The departure is forgotten ”the ethnologist reported Lucia Apolzan, who intensely researched the settlements in the Dacian fortress of Hunedoara.

According to the popular mythology, if someone sees or hears the Pentecost, he must neither move nor speak.

“Where he plays, the land remains burnt and beaten, the grass blackens or ceases to grow. Pentecost punish the people who do not respect the days, those who sleep at night or who go out at night after the water, lifting them up in the whirlwind or,” shows the author of the Romanian mythology Dictionary.

To these are opposed, in the Romanian mythology, the nun – the strangers of the Călușului, an ancient god of the horse, protector of spring, summer and fertility. His tradition gave birth to the dance of the guards, a popular habit found in several regions of Romania, which reproduces old magical rituals meant to bring fertility, plenty and to drive away the diseases (Pentecost).