3310 ROMANIA - Postcrossing Meetup, Bucharest, 14 July 2018

3310 The seventh postcard of the series
"100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (7/12)
- traditional Romanian dance named hora.

The previous postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (6/12)

The seventh meeting of the Romanian postcrossers in the year of the Centenary of the Great Union took place on July 14, 2018, in Bucharest, and Mihnea Răducu chose for the postcard a traditional Romanian folk dance named horă. The dancers hold each other's hands and the circle spins, usually counterclockwise, as each participant follows a sequence of three steps forward and one step back. The dance is usually accompanied by musical instruments such as the cymbalom, accordion, violin, viola, double bass, saxophone, trumpet or the pan pipes.

 The hora is popular during wedding celebrations and festivals, and is an essential part of the social entertainment in rural areas. One of the most famous hore is the Hora Unirii (Hora of the Union), which became a Romanian patriotic song as a result of being the hymn when Wallachia and Moldavia united to form the Principality of Romania in 1859. Some of the biggest hora circles can be found on early 20th century movies filmed by the Manakis brothers in Pindus, Greece and performed by local Aromanians.

At the initiative of Mihnea Răducu, between December 1 2017 and December 1 2018, so in the year in which the Romanians celebrated the centenary of the Great Union, took place every month a meeting of the Romanian postcrossers, and at each meeting has been edited a postcard to recall this exceptional event for the Romanians.

The next postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (8/12)

About the stamps

The stamps are part of the series FIFA World Cup – Germany 2006, designed by Oleg Cojocari and issued on June 9, 2006. The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament, and was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany.
• an image suggesting the atmosphere in the tribunes during football games (0.30 RON) - It's on the postcard 3310
• a scoring goal (0.50 RON)
• a football player during the game (1.00 RON)
• the cup raised in a triumphant gesture (1.20 RON) - It's on the postcard 3310

References
Hora (dance) - Wikipedia

Senders: Mihnea Răducu and the Romanian postcrossers who participated to the Postcrossing Meetup which held in Bucharest on July 14, 2018.
Sent from Voluntari (Ilfov / Romania) on 16.07.2018
Edited by Postcardsmarket - 100 years since the Great Union of Romania - Series 7/12