期刊名称：Annals of the University of Bucharest : Geography Series
印刷版ISSN：1013-4115
电子版ISSN：2247-238X
出版年度：2008
出版社：University of Bucharest
摘要：The territory referred to is placed in the curved region of the Romanian Carpathians, at the line of contact between the Southern and the Eastern C arpathians group. The f irst cer tain settlement, the Monastery of Sinaia, appears between 1690-1695. Around it there was formed the initial heart of the locality, a hamlet at the junctio n between the Izvorul Dorului with Pr ahova, the future Sinaia. Predeal, Bu teni, Azuga were formed towards the end of the XVIIIthcentury ¨C the beginning of the XIXthcentury, by means of inns building. An essential moment within the region humanizatio n is represented by the beginnings of the touristic activity, in close connection to the building of the railway B ucharest-Predeal between 1876 and 1879, but also to the building of the Pele Castle, between 1875-1883. After the Second World War, the traffic increases, the railway being doubled and electrified. After 1990, the real estate mar ket developed and the free intravilan spaces were occupied by numerous villas
