Imaginea literară și turistică a Transilvaniei ca spațiu geografico-istoric și destinație de călătorie
The literary and tourist image of Transylvania as a geographical-historical space and a travel destination

Summary/Abstract: The Transylvanian geographical space has always been an exceptional challenge for the imaginary. Thus, in the Romanian national imaginary, Transylvania has always been associated with attributes such as sacredness, nobility, seriousness and diligence, while internationally we are dealing with a geo-literary substance, envolving the registers of myth, mystery, supernatural, initiatory and revealing journey. Analysed as a literary and geographical space or as a geo-literary space, Transylvania also involves tourism studies, since it is one of the most famous tourist destinations in the world. Its literary notoriety plays an important role in attracting tourists and building the region’s touristic image(ry) often considered as a social and cultural construct due to its West-East antithesis. This paper is an analysis of the interconnectivity between Transylvania’s tourist image and its famous literay image

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