The Carpathian Mountain range spans a great arc across central and eastern Europe. A cradle beneath its jagged peaks and hidden among trackless miles of forests, it is one of the world's few surviving medieval landscapes.

A huge part of this great range straddles an area of modern-day Romania known as Transylvania. It is a place of myths and legends, a land where the distant howl of the wolf still chills the night air, where bears sharpen their claws on towering pines and lynx prowl ghost-like among the sullen grass.