The Historical Film Festival from Rasnov
Rasnov is a Romanian town situated at the massive Postavaru Mountain , close to the Bucegi and Piatra Craiului Mountains . It has just 16 000 residents all Romanians, Germans, Romas and Hungarians. The place has a beautiful history from the old times of Dacians (more than two thousands years ago) when the place had the name Komidava, after Cumidava. People in here like to say that this place had the most ancient Romanian roots from the Tharacians, Dacians (a Thracians family), Romans (after the Roman colonization). Well, in 1331, the area appears in documents as “Rosnou” (the “Rose meadow” in German) and in 1343 as “Rosnov”. From those times, the town developed as a noticeable economic area through the craft guilds like woodworkers, glassmakers, weavers, soon after, gunpowder producers. Tourism was also developed. And because Rosnov was situated in an open area, on a road between “Tara Barsei” and “Pasul Bran” and many invaders (mostl...