{"id":115253,"date":"2023-11-30T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T12:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/a-new-ice-hotel-at-balea-lake\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:43:19","slug":"a-new-ice-hotel-at-balea-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/a-new-ice-hotel-at-balea-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Ice Hotel at B\u00e2lea Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations have begun for the 2023 \u2013 2024 season of the &#8220;Hotel of Ice B\u00e2lea Lac&#8221; project, which is built annually in the F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219 Mountains, Sibiu County, for the 17th consecutive year\u2014a unique tourist attraction in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Modern Art in Ice,&#8221; and each room in the upcoming hotel will bear the name of a well-known contemporary artist, with the interior decor being inspired by modern art.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, in the glacial cauldron of B\u00e2lea Lake, located at an altitude of over 2000 m in the F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219 Mountains, the Ice Hotel, the Ice Church, and igloos are constructed using ice blocks extracted from the lake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Where is the Hotel of Ice B\u00e2lea Lac located?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hotel is built annually in the F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219 Mountains, Sibiu County, at B\u00e2lea Lake, situated at an altitude exceeding 2,000 meters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the theme for the 2023-2024 season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The theme is &#8220;Modern Art in Ice,&#8221; featuring rooms named after and inspired by famous contemporary artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is the hotel constructed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The structure is built using large blocks of natural ice harvested directly from the glacial B\u00e2lea Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations have begun for the 2023 \u2013 2024 season of the &#8220;Hotel of Ice B\u00e2lea Lac&#8221; project, which is built annually in the F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219 Mountains, Sibiu County, for the 17th consecutive year\u2014a unique tourist attraction in Romania. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Modern Art in Ice,&#8221; and each room in the upcoming hotel will bear the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":92476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2859],"tags":[2861,3617],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-115253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stirea-editiei-en","tag-hotel-en","tag-sibiu-en"],"article_style_override":"on","post-style":"style2","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/topstory.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115253"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=115253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}