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A place surrounded by the Bucegi Mountains and the Piatra Craiului Mountains. A traditional lifestyle of herding sheep and cows is preserved, augmented by tourism.ÃËÃÅirnea was declared the country`s first tourist village in 1968. Aside from the mountainous scenery, attractions in Fundata include a wooden Romanian Orthodox church 1830 and one of stone 1939-1943; in ÃËÃÅirnea, there is a church from 1893-1894 as well as an ethnographic museum.[2] There is an annual festival held around July 20, feast of the prophet Elijah, called Nedeia MunÃ
 Ã Ã£ilor `Mountain Celebration`. Originally a `feast of two countries` Transylvania and Wallachia, it was revived in 1969, and features folklore displays as well as local cheeses and meats.