The Peleș National Museum is pleased to announce the launch of the book "Bucegi Mountains - The Olympus of Romania", by author Radu COSMA, on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., in the Concert Hall of Peleș Castle. The event is part of the series dedicated to Queen Maria of Romania, whose birth is 150 years old this year.
The author's special guests are Dr. Narcis Dorin ION, General Director of the Peleș National Museum, and the well-known playwright Dinu GRIGORESCU, Director of the Ghepardul Publishing House.
A lover of nature, Queen Maria got to know the Bucegi Mountains either by walking or on horseback, and in 1924, as patron of the Cult of Heroes Society, she initiated, together with her husband, Ferdinand I the Loyal, the construction, on Mount Caraiman, of the Heroes' Cross, "in the glory and memory of the heroes of Prahova who fell in World War I in defense of the homeland."
A man of the Bucegi Mountains, which he has traversed since childhood, Radu COSMA reveals to us the same love for these mountains, which guard the counties of Dâmbovița, Prahova and Brașov like a fortress and which he likens to the sacred mountain of Hellas where the Twelve Olympians of the Greek pantheon had their abode. With meticulousness, the author's pen makes known to the reader the mysteries and beauty of the Bucegi Mountains, as well as the history of the adjacent cities on the two slopes of the mountains.
The book, "Bucegi Mountains - The Olympus of Romania is a reverence for the divine nature of Romania, a competent look at the man of science and mountaineering who has traversed all the paths and recent eras of the development of hiking, expeditions and walks in this Dacian, Romanesque and Carpathian Olympus, being structured in chapters and themes of broad interest." -Dinu Grigorescu