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duminică, 23 august 2015

Tarcu Mountains and Bistra Lake, relief and description, more info

Tarcu Mountains and Bistra Lake, relief and description, more info

Tarcu mountainous terrain can be likened to a vast amphitheater in the Banat neighborhood plain and composed largely of three steps. The highest consists of peaks over l800-2000 m height, located in the south-east to Hideg, Ses River and Great River / Mare River. It is characterized by smooth, ice buckets lined peaks and alpine meadows stretched. This stage includes four massive high mountains that make up Tarcu Mountains group, namely the massive Tarcu, Bloju and Small Mountain / Mic Mountain.

In the middle level falling heights 1100-1500 m, making up an area that surrounds the west and north the previous one. Distinguished Peak High Glade / Varful Poiana Inalta, near Hideg, Peak Plesii and on the north side of the mountains, Magura Hillock / Magura Marga and Clopotivei.


Lowest step, with heights of 500-800 m, is in contact with Caransebes Depression and reaches a width of 2-3 km.
From geological point of view, Tarcu Mountains are composed of granite (Bloju Massive, Petreanu Massive and Small Mount Massive / Mount Mic) surrounded by crystalline schists and sedimentary rocks (sandstone, tuffs, conglomerates etc.), especially in their part of the southeast. Hard crystalline schists and gneisses for Tarcu Peak and Prislop Peak, generally, highest relief consists of crystalline schists and granite.
http://go2-romania.com/tarcu-mountains-and-bistra-lake-relief-and-description-2/

Accommodation Hunedoara county info & offer at hotels, hostels, guesthouses and private accommodation / offers & discounts

Accommodation Hunedoara county info & offer at hotels, hostels, guesthouses and private accommodation / offers & discounts

Accommodation Hunedoara county at hotels, hostels, motels, villas and accommodation at private individuals or companies who rent apartments. Lodging in diversified in recent years in Hunedoara county being built hotels and guesthouses that offer services from two stars to five stars. Depending on your budget your accommodation can have a lower price, and thus to benefit from a more limited budget, so you fall in the amount of money that you have proposed to spend your holiday or vacation root. Get discounts on accommodation for longer periods of time or to accommodate larger groups of tourists. Booking earlier it’s another good method to save money. However all these details have to set with the location administrator where you intend to get accommodate.

Accommodation Deva, Hunedoara county capital

Deva has developed for tourism and offer those interested to visit the city and its impoundments a wide range of accommodation offers. There are currently in Deva a number of twenty-one accommodation units offers, accommodation as follows: eleven accommodation at hostels, four hotels, four cottages, a hostel and a motel. Some units have lower prices, others have higher prices, but the services are lower or higher, as prices you will pay. Book offers look at units that are in the villages belonging to the city. Among the establishments offering quality services we can mention a few: Guesthouse President guesthouse of five-stars, hotel Davos hotel of three-stars and hostel Archia Mansion five stars.

Accommodation Hunedoara town

City Hunedoara was a pillar of Romanian industry, but due to reduced activity steel mill the town became an important tourist pole of the county. In Hunedoara there is a zoo, here also you can find the famous castle of Hunyadi, the city is located near Lake Cincis, recreational lake and leisure in a pleasant and quiet place. The city has several hotels and guesthouses that offer the possibility to stay in the best possible conditions. We recommend accommodation at the Maier Hotel three stars, Hunedoara Best Hotel three stars accommodation and Rusca hotel three star hotel.

Accommodation Cincis lake & other tourist attractions

Cincis Lake is an artificial lake created during the communist period in Hunedoara county. Cincis Lake one of the largest lakes in Transylvania, has a depth of 48 meters and covering an area of ​​approximately 200 ha. It is located at a distance of 15 km from the city of Hunedoara. You may say in joke or seriously that the lake is called “The Hunedoara Sea”. The average water temperature is 18°C. In this lake you can swim. Other attractions are fishing, water sports and sightseeing in the area. All around the lake there are two campgrounds where you can tent or caravan can park the roulottes, and tourists seeking accommodation can stay overnight at one of the three motels, hostels or numerous villas (some private other offering accommodation for tourists).
http://go2-romania.com/accommodation-hunedoara-county-hotels-hostels-guesthouses-and-private-accommodation/
 

Timisoara capital city of Timis County, Banat historical region from western of Romania

Timisoara capital city of Timis County, Banat historical region from western of Romania – from the past until the present


The city of Timisoara is documented since the late XIII century, first document of the city of Timisoara is however controversial, is placed by specialists in 1212 or 1266. In 1342, Timisoara is mentioned with the title “civitas” – city. Archaeological findings indicate the existence of a Roman settlement but possibly the city, on the site of today’s city. Timisoara name comes from Castri de Thymes (fortification built in the early eleventh century to the supervision of fords and roads), which retained the old Romanian Dacian name of the river Timis.

Due to the strategic settlement history of the ancient citadel of Timisoara is marked by involvement in the fight to halt the Ottoman advance towards Central Europe. Timisoara Fortress was built in the eighteenth century, the marshes left by flooding rivers Timis and Bega. Moreover, the surrounding marshes were, for a long time, a natural fortification of the city. Building Bega Canal starting in 1728 led to dry marshes and land improvement.
Timisoara received a particular boost during the reign of King Charles I of Anjou, who after his visit in 1307 ordered the construction of a royal palace here. Moreover, during the feudal anarchy, the Hungarian capital will move. Hunyadi’s appointment to the position of Timis county, in 1440, marks a unique chapter in the history of Timisoara. He turned the town into a permanent military camp in his home, moving here with his family. The city remained in possession of Corvin familly until 1490.
http://go2-romania.com/timisoara-capital-city-of-timis-county-banat-historical-region-from-western-of-romania/

In Coliboaia cave are the oldest paintings in Europe - interesting caves in Romania

In Coliboaia cave are the oldest paintings in Europe - interesting caves in Romania

Situated on Sighistelului Valley, at 5 km upstream from the village with the same name, in the Apuseni Natural Park in Bihor county at 560 m elevation and 120 m upstream Over Magura cave, Coliboaia cave is one of the most interesting caves in Romania. After analysis, experts have said that the cave paintings more than 35,000 years and were made around the same time as other graphical representations of caves in France and Spain. In it were found traces of prehistoric man and his paintings dating from Gravettian or the Aurignacian.
In early 2010, a team of speleologists discovered this cave paintings are the oldest paintings which of its kind in Central Europe, says Romanian Speleological Federation (FRS) to form. The drawings are wonderful for their form and for their age. These drawings of Coliboaia were discovered in an area inaccessible from Apuseni National Park Mountains. The discovery of 14 paintings was made accidentally by Romanian cavers.
http://go2-romania.com/in-coliboaia-cave-are-the-oldest-paintings-in-europe/

 

Living Fire Glacier Cave in Apuseni Mountains, Bihor Mountains, Bihor county, Romania

Living Fire Glacier Cave in Apuseni Mountains, Bihor Mountains, Bihor county, Romania

Living Fire Glacier Cave consists of two halls. In the Great Hall / Sala Mare (Romanian) there is a glacier, the glacier which is the third largest in Romania after the underground glaciers from Scarisoara and Bortig. The Great Hall / Sala Mare has a height of 46 m and a length of 68 m and in the middle shelter this impressive glacier which has a total weight of 25,000 cubic meters of ice rocks. The cave opens at the base of a limestone wall through a low entrance, making access a wooden staircase. then follows a gallery that will driving while in a steep slope to the Great Hall / Sala Mare. Great Hall is partially open vault through a large window. Through this large window along time have fallen tree trunks that were embedded in the underground glacier.


Several groups of stalagmites in the opposite corner of the entrance in the Great Hall / Sala Mare of the Living Fire underground glacier. On this the sunlight reflects around noon, creating a dream image, would be like glacier in fire. The glacier does not melt throughout the year, a phenomenon partly because the open window in the ceiling favors the accumulation of cold air during winter and summer in the absence of a favorable ventilatt keep cold air inside the cavity formed in the cave, allowing to the glacier keeping intact all year long. Small Hall / Sala Mica (Romanian) lies behind stalagmites and accesel is through a gallery. This hall contains also stalagmites.
http://go2-romania.com/living-fire-glacier-cave-in-apuseni-mountains-bihor-mountains/

 

Ruschita marble stone, Caras Severin county, Romanian marble stone – general & local information

Ruschita marble stone, Caras Severin county, Romanian marble stone – general & local information

Marble is a metamorphic rock, composed mostly of calcite (a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3) and obtained by the metamorphosis of limestone. Its name comes from ancient Greek, μαρμαίρειν = to shine, to gloss. The most common marble colors are: white, gray, black and red.

Local information Ruschita marble stone

Marble Ruschita is an marble stone extracted from Ruschita deposit, a village in Caras-Severin, about 10 km northwest of the town Rusca Montana. This marble has different shades, from white to gray, pink, yellow and reddish pink.

Data exploits of the marble deposit

Currently, marble old quarry pits are exploited from the career Veche-Gropan and New Career / Cariera Noua, from the Ionel Hill, both located in Poiana Rusca mountains, at an altitude of 800 meters. They comprise the largest reserve of natural stone exploited in Romania. In the areas of development of marbles, topography is rugged with steep walls and deep valleys. The place of exploiting marble in its central part is crossed by brook with crayfish / Paraul cu Raci (Romanian) and in the west of the river Fades / Paraul Padesului, which by uniting formed Ruschita River.
http://go2-romania.com/ruschita-marble-stone-caras-severin-county-romanian-marble-stone/

 

Turnu Monastery close to Cozia Monastery on the shore of Olt River, Valcea county, Romania

Turnu Monastery close to Cozia Monastery on the shore of Olt River, Valcea county, Romania

At the foot of Mount Cozia, near the river Olt, near the Caciulata resort (Calimanesti resort) and at 2 km away from Cozia Monastery founded by the Ruler Mircea the Elder / Mircea cel Batran, can be founded the Nunnery monastery, located at 600 m from the railway station with the same name. At the foot of the massive tails Turneanu peak, over time, there were many hermitages, cells dug into the rock by hermits living a true Christian life. Two of cells, carved in rock, are still today.

Name Monastery comes from a massive tower of rock called "Peak Theophilus" / "Piscul lui Teofil", built in the II entury by Roman legions in Arutela camp whose ruins can still be seen in Poiana Bivolari below the current hydro. At the beginning he was called "Hermitage after the turn" / "Schitul de dupa turn", then "Hermitage Turnu" / "Schitul Turnu" and finally, "Turnu Monastery".
The old church which is located immediately at the entrance, was built in 1676, on the place of the another one mode from wood, built by former bishop of Râmnic, Varlaam, Metropolitan of Romanian Country (Oltenia and Muntenia, two old historical province of Romania), died in 1702.
http://go2-romania.com/turnu-monastery-close-to-cozia-monastery-on-the-shore-of-olt-river/