Surprise your Valentine

Newsroom 12/02/2015 | 11:33

Two days until Valentine’s Day, a celebration that seems to be expected by Romanians as well. If you didn’t plan anything yet, here are some suggestions:

Little surprises

Shoppers can find jewelry made of hand painted porcelain, silver, Swarovski crystals or glass beads, cosmetics, bio care products, floral arrangements, wood decorations, clothes, accessories, metal and glass engravings, handcrafts, coffee and tea specialties at the Valentine’s Day Fair is daily, from 10.00 to 20.00, at Dalles Gallery (18 Nicolae Balcescu Blvd.). Pandora has launched a special Valentine’s Day collection, celebrating love with charms from RON 149. Also, several promotions are available in stores for Valentine’s Day. Jolidon, Intimissimi,  Calzedonia, Penti, Oysho and Prelude could be the places where you can find the perfect Valentine’s Day outfit.

Little drinks, little bites

Wine and champagne are top products for this day, but how about a cozy place to drink a coffee?

Starbucks opened two lovely places downtown, one in the heart of the city, Starbucks Hanul lui Manuc and the other one in Pipera, Starbucks Reserve Strip Mall, an exclusive place to be. Also, Laduree has special offers, chocolate covered biscuits, glazed almonds or macaroons.

Restaurants with a sky view

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MNAC Terrace prepared for Valentine’s Day an all-day meal and some interesting performances which will take place there, as well as exhibitions opened at all floors.

Sole, 18 Lounge by Embassy, Sky Bar, Silk Panoramic, Allhambra, AstroDom and Z restaurant can be also a nice place to celebrate love.

Read also: Love is a legal battlefield: Marriage and divorce in Romania

About Valentine’s Day

Every February 14, across the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. The history of Valentine’s Day–and the story of its patron saint–is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.

While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial–which probably occurred around A.D. 270–others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, though written Valentine’s didn’t begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. (The greeting is now part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England.) Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.

Information source: History

Tatiana Lazar

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