{"id":7323,"date":"2025-10-21T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7323"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:00:38","slug":"romanias-transylvania-region-on-lonely-planet-list-of-best-halloween-destinations-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7323","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s Transylvania region on Lonely Planet list of best Halloween destinations in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel platform Lonely Planet has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/articles\/best-places-to-celebrate-halloween-europe\" target=\"_blank\">published a list<\/a> of best Halloween destinations to try in Europe and Romania\u2019s famous region of Transylvania is at the top. Best known as the place where Dracula\u2019s Castle is located, the Romanian region is also home to the Citadel of Sighi\u015foara or the spooky Hoia-Baciu Forest in Cluj-Napoca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForget trick-or-treating. Europeans tend to embrace the spooky side of Halloween. Sometimes creepy, sometimes theatrical, Halloween in\u00a0Europe\u00a0means techno raves in\u00a0Paris, the birthplace of vampires in\u00a0Transylvania\u00a0and Gothic masquerades on Venetian canals,\u201d author Ashley Parsons said.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the list, Transylvania is \u201cbest for total immersion.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpend just one weekend in October in the Transylvania region of\u00a0Romania\u00a0and you\u2019ll see that the region is more than a host to Halloween ambiance; spookiness is integrated into its identity!\u201d &#8211; reads the article, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/stiri\/actualitate\/social\/orase-din-romania-pe-primul-loc-in-clasamentul-european-al-destinatiilor-de-halloween-3464677\" target=\"_blank\">Digi24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As planning tip, Lonely Planet recommends readers to pack for chilly mountain weather and be prepared for fog, rain and cold nights.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes Paris and Broceliande in France, Zugarramurdi in Spain, York in England, the Bia\u0142a Woda Reserve in Poland, Derry in Northern Ireland, \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov\u00a0in the Czech Republic, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Venice in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/trifuion_info\">Trifuion<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/stock-photos\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel platform Lonely Planet has published a list of best Halloween destinations to try in Europe and Romania\u2019s famous region of Transylvania is at the top. Best known as the place where Dracula\u2019s Castle is located, the Romanian region is also home to the Citadel of Sighi\u015foara or the spooky Hoia-Baciu Forest in Cluj-Napoca. \u201cForget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}