{"id":8764,"date":"2024-02-02T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:47:12","slug":"article-in-the-guardian-about-caezu-guest-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/2024\/02\/02\/article-in-the-guardian-about-caezu-guest-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Article in The Guardian about Caezu Guest House and the wild beauty of Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.32px;\">We are happy to see that we were mentioned in The Guardian and this motivates us to continue what we started at Caezu Guest House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2023\/dec\/16\/travel-writers-favourite-finds-of-2023<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Romania\u2019s wild beauty, and on a trip this year discovered an ancient beech forest just outside the village of Nuc\u0219oara, on the southern slopes of the F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219 Mountains. They are among the oldest and most spectacular beech trees in Europe, over 5,000 of them, gnarled and huge, some up to seven metres in girth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s stunning to wander among these giants and contemplate the history they have lived through: anti-communist partisan Elisabeta Rizea and companions spent years hiding out in these woods. Her cottage is in the village and now a guesthouse, Caezu, has opened there (the owner\u2019s great-grandmother was Elisabeta\u2019s sister). Visitors can \u201cadopt a beech tree\u201d in a scheme started by the mayor and Foundation Conservation Carpathia, with funds going to help preserve the forest.<\/p>\n<p>The beeches are not the only remarkable natural attraction in the area. Nearby is a fern forest (they grow up to two metres in summer) and it\u2019s close to Moldoveanu, the highest mountain in Romania, at 2,544 metres. The hiking is wonderful. Jane Dunford&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8757 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.51.48-1-752x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.51.48-1-752x1024.jpeg 752w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.51.48-1-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.51.48-1-768x1045.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.51.48-1-1128x1536.jpeg 1128w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.51.48-1-600x817.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.51.48-1.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8759 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.52.13-853x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.52.13-853x1024.jpeg 853w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.52.13-250x300.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.52.13-768x922.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.52.13-600x721.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-01-at-15.52.13.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to see that we were mentioned in The Guardian and this motivates us to continue what we started at Caezu Guest House. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2023\/dec\/16\/travel-writers-favourite-finds-of-2023 &#8220;I love Romania\u2019s wild beauty, and on a trip this year discovered an ancient beech forest just outside the village of Nuc\u0219oara, on the southern slopes of the F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8768,"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}