Buşteni is a small mountain town in the north of
the county Prahova, in the center of Romania. It is located in the Prahova
Valley, at the bottom of the Bucegi mountains that have a maximum altitude of
2505 m. Its name literally means tree-logs in Romanian. One village, Poiana
Ţapului, is administratively part of the town, formerly a separate commune
prior to 1950. According to the 2011 census, it has 8,553 inhabitants.
Buşteni's average altitude is 900
m
