Sinaia
Sign in to saveSinaia () is a town and a mountain resort in Prahova County, Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Muntenia. The town was named after the Sinaia Monastery of 1695, around which it was built. The monastery, in turn, is named after the Biblical Mount Sinai. King Carol I of Romania also built his summer residence, Peleș Castle, in Sinaia in the late nineteenth century.
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Sinaia is a mountain resort town in Romania that developed around a 17th-century monastery of the same name and became notable as the location of Peleș Castle, the summer residence of King Carol I built in the late 1800s. The town's name traces back through the monastery to the Biblical Mount Sinai, reflecting its historical and cultural significance in Romanian heritage.
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Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- town
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Prahova
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Prahova County
- Romanian subdivision.official_name
- Sinaia
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Sinaia jud Prahova.png
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- ROU PH Sinaia CoA.png
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Vlad Gheorghe Oprea
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–2028
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PNL
- Romanian subdivision.area_total_km2
- 89.27
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- Sinaia Forever Festival
- Eagles of Freedom Plaza
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Sinaia () is a town and a mountain resort in Prahova County, Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Muntenia. The town was named after the Sinaia Monastery of 1695, around which it was built. The monastery, in turn, is named after the Biblical Mount Sinai. King Carol I of Romania also built his summer residence, Peleș Castle, in Sinaia in the late nineteenth century.
Sinaia is about northwest of Ploiești and south of Brașov, in a mountainous area on the Prahova River valley, just east of the Bucegi Mountains. The town's altitude varies between above sea level.