The National Tourist information and Promotion Center in Vâlcea -1st place in the top of mountain areas according to mountain tourist areas; - three spa resorts of national and international interest having resources that offer them authenticity; - the widest variety of mineral waters, some of which are unique in the world; the existence of two national parks: -; Buila Vânturariţa National Park; the diversity of flora and fauna, the existence of a large number of caves; -2nd place on no. churches, hermitages and monasteries; -Hurezi Monastery and Pottery - UNESCO Heritage; -Ceramics Center Olari - the most important ceramic pottery center in ; -allows the practicing of various forms of rural tourism depending on the specificity of the area Slope 1: Length - 2257 m, average level Slope 2: Length - 730 m, light level Slope 3: Length - 350 m, easy level Slope 4: Length - 730 m, easy level Slope 5: Length - 675 m, light level Slope 6: Length - 120 m, easy level Slope 7: Length - 1230 m, easy level

The ski resort Transalpina – Vidra/Voineasa is located in Vâlcea County . For skiing and snowboarding, there are 7,5 km of slopes available. equipment type gondola carrying tourists. The winter sports area is situated between the elevations of 1,320 and 1,940 m.

Transalpina or National Road 67C (DN 67C), the road more affectionately known as the 'King's Road' or 'The Devil's Pathway' is the highest road in Romania, reaching a maximum altitude in the Urdele Pass: 2,145 m. Situated in the Parang Mountains of the , the 150 km long road ties (historical province in the southern Romania) to Transylvania (central and western Romania) between the towns of Novaci in Gorj County (southern Romania) and Sebes in Alba County (central Romania). The road crosses the Parang Mountains from north to south and is a parallel to the Jiu Valley and the Valley Băile Govora

Băile Olănești

Călimănești

Tourism has great opportunities for development, which has led to the creation of an important base of accommodation, service and treatment in Călimăneşti, Băile Olăneşti, Băile Govora and beyond due to the diversity of the waters Vâlcea - the only county in the country where almost all kinds of mineral diseases can be treated, here are also salty, thermal and iodine baths Access to E81 Sibiu - Bucharest - from Râmnicu Vâlcea deflected on DN 67 Ramnicu Valcea - Ocnele Mari - Băile Govora. Resort of national importance, opened in all seasons.

Did you know that ... Here the mineral water has been used therapeutically since 1879.The treatment was done for a while in cops (wooden bathtubs) arranged in cells in the Govora monastery? The water of these springs was transported to the monastery in large barrels, called sacs, transported in which the oxen were drawn Did you know it is ... - considered one of the richest in iodine and bromine water in the world, the second in Europe; - the only region in the country where the ratio between negative and positive aeroions is equal to one; - specialized in the treatment of respiratory, rheumatic and endocrine disorders

Located 18 km from Râmnicu Vâlcea, access to DN64 Râmnicu Vâlcea – Băile Olăneşti. Did you know ... Is the only place in the country where anti- allergic treatment is injected with isotonic sulphurous mineral water, treatments applied to some professional diseases cyanide poisoning with heavy metals, Mg, Pb and Zn?

Cleaning factors: iodate, bromine, sodium, calcium, sulphurous and chlorinated mineral waters, some hypotones and other isotonic minerals. The resort is located at the base of the Southern Carpathians on the banks of the Olt River, along the European road E 81 (DN 7), 18 km north of Râmnicu Vâlcea, 81 km south of Sibiu and 187 km from Bucharest

Did you know that ... In 1869 Emperor Napoleon III followed a cure with mineral water from Calimanesti, which was sent to France? Mânăstirea Surpatele

Mânăstirea Bistrița

Schitul Pahomie

Mânăstirea Arnota Mânăstirea Govora Mânăstirea Turnu

Mânăstirea Frăsinei Mânăstirea Stânișoara built by Prince Mircea the Elder . The oldest and most important monument of medieval architecture and art in Oltenia. Murals dating from 1391. Church keeps inside original frescoes, portraits being among the faces of Mircea the Elder and his son UNESCO monument. Founded by Constantin Brancoveanu. The largest group of medieval architecture preserved in Romanian country. During the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu (1688-1714) worked as an important cultural center, with intense artistic activity with a famous school of painters, where they formed craftsmen who have made their mark on the entire church paintings Romanian eighteenth century. Here are preserved parts of saints Andrew, Pantelimon, Mina, Haralambos Teodor Tiron Minodora, Procopius and others. Located 25 km from Ramnicu Valcea - Frânceşti common. The oldest monastery testimony was recorded between 1653-1658..

Did you know ?... The monastery was built in the trunk of a single oak secular, the icon of Virgin Mary was found?

Natural heritage

Natural heritage Place on top of mountain areas by mountain tourist areas Protected areas, nature reserves and natural monuments in county Valcea : National Park Cozia National Park Buila-Vânturariţa Pyramids Valley Stăncioiului Nature Reserve geological Ocnele Reserve paleontological Empty Nature Reserve Pyramids earth Slătioara natural reserve cauldron Câlcescu natural reserve Iezerul LATORITEI natural reserve Cristeşti Reserve Miru Bora Reserve Sterpu –Black Hill Reserve Radița - Mânzu Reserve Ocnele Trovantilor Museum NATIONAL PARK BUILA-VÂNTURARIŢA THE LOWEST IN THE COUNTRY

In the park are: -Bistrita Gorge, the narrowest canyon in limestone Romania -Gorge Costesti Key -Key Olăneşti -Valley Otăsăului -Bat Cave (Saint Gregory Decapolis) in Bistrita -Bear Cave Gorge Bistrita -Sinkholes of Mount Arnota -Glade snowdrops rich (Leucojum vernum ) from Prislop -Natural arch stone house in Pătrunsa -Reserve yew from CHEIA -Orchid Meadows Cheia Valley -Cave Green Tulip -Arnăuților Cave from Olăneşti Nature Reserve Museum Trovantilor

The Trovatas Museum Reserve, located on the territory of Costesti commune, has the main purpose of protecting the geological formations called trovantes. From a scientific point of view, the area is valuable in that the most representative troops are here, in a very hogh density and in addition, the only known museum of this type has been arranged here. This is an ellipsoidal portion of a layer of sand or a friable sandstone cemented by calcareous waters.

Nature Reserve

Is a geological reserve the variety of outstanding sculptural forms on gravel and sand, marl and clay cemented. Located in Getic Sub- Carpathians (subdivision - Subcarpathians Valcea), 5km from Ramnicu Valcea.

Heavy rains and melting snow have created massive pyramids of earth and giant towers of 80 m height. Also, these waters have created trenches up to 10 m in the valley side, giving rise to forms of appearance of huge organ pipes P C O U P L U T L U A R R E

Using complex techniques and artistic genres realizing the original creation of high-value marking personality County Vâlcea

Valcea unit features of popular culture are presented in all three areas folk: mountains, hills, plains.. Ceramics Center Olari-the most important ceramic pottery center in Romania

Rooster of Hurez - the largest fair of Romanian folk ceramics Stoenești

Horezu

Vaideeni

Vladești

Lungești

Băbeni Voineasa Țara Loviștei

Testimonials from past to future Anton Pann Memorial House History Museum

Wine Museum

Art Museum

Organized in a picturesque landscape, the complex consists of Vestiges Greceanu, Duca, Duca Memorial House. Great monuments of Romanian architecture, which combines harmoniously with folk elements and elements of character building fortifications.

"Kule" = tower - is housing reinforced shaped tower, which has as main features a ground floor, flooring, a staircase access to floor and wall height successive withdrawals Arranged around Kula Bujoreni. Museum in the air in an area of ​​10 hectares. 62 architectural objects exhibited, with an inventory of over 12,000 goals. It is a mansion built in Brancoveanu style with Gothic influences, covering more than 600 m2, whose construction began in 1824 and ended in 1937

Memorial museum Nicolae Balcescu

Memorial Balcescu collections include over 15,000 cultural assets and heritage, decorative art, paintings, an archive of inestimable cultural value, memories Balcescu and his family. Adress: Bulevardul Tudor Vladimirescu, nr.23, în incinta Teatrului Anton Pann, Rm.Vâlcea, județul Vâlcea Contact: 0350 521 100 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] www.facebook.com/cniptvalcea/

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