HISTORY

Route Description:

Deva- Brad- Dr. Petru Groza- Arieseni- Garda de Sus- Campeni- Avram Iancu- Lupsa- Buru- Aiud- Alba Iulia- Geoagiu Bai- Orastie- Costesti- Gradistea de Munte- Simeria- Calan- Hunedoara- Deva

Is a trip of old and glorious Romanian history, counted in millenniums.

Brad: city on Crisului Alb valet, traditional spiritual and economic centre of Zarandului country. In XIV century, at Brad, for the first time in the world, was used the trolley in gold mines; the tracks were wood made and had switch invented by a Romanian engineer. Museum of mining; statues (Crisan, A. Iancu).

Deva: city set on Muresului valley, residence of Hunedoara district. Dacian and Roman vestiges; documentary attested in 1269. Museum of history, archeology, natural sciences, popular art-Magna Curia palace (XVI-XVIII centuries); statues: Decebal, Horia, Closca and Crisan, Dr. Petru Groza; fortress (XIII century; ruins) on Dealul cetatii (Botanic natural reservation).Dr. Petru Groza: city set on the superior stream of Crisul Negru, at the foots of Bihor mountains. Surroundings: Nucet city- seasonal balneal-climacteric resort.

Arieseni: village placed at the springs of Ariesul Mare. Wood architecture, specific to the area ( XVIII-XIX century). Surroundings: Bihor summit (1849m.). the highest from Apuseni mountains; the glacier and Scarisoara chalet (1108m. altitude).

Garda de sus: village from the superior valley of Aries. Wood architecture and traditional clothing, famous borough. Surroundings: chalet and glacier Scarisoara; Cucubata Mica summit (1770m. alt. )

Campeni: city set in the environ of the confluence between Ariesul Mare and Ariesul Mic, the traditional residence of Tara Motilor. Historic houses ( the general district of Avram Iancu, houses of the tribunes); old buildings (around 200 years); the basement from where were destroyed the barrels with honey and wine, at 14th August  1780- the first sign of grumble that announced the revolt leaded by Horia, Closca and Crisan; the equestrian statue of Avram Iancu.

Avram Iancu: village set on Ariesului Mic valley, former Vidra de Sus. The memorial house of Avram Iancu; architecture and clothing specific to Apuseni mountains. Surroundings: Gaina mountain (1484m. alt.) – folkloric manifestation “Targul de Fete” (every year, around 20th of July);Vidra village (Dealul cu melci-fossil reservation; waterfall, monuments of architecture- XIII century, 1640).

Lupsa: village settled on Aries valet. Roman vestiges, possible residence of a Romanian principality around 1325. Mine exploitation. Ethnographic museum, from the first in the country-1939 and one of the richest pieces of historic and artistic value; monuments of architecture (1421, 1694); rural wood made constructions, archaic technical installations. Surroundings: Pogaceua chalet, Muntele Mare (1825m. alt.)

Buru: village settled at the confluence of Lara with Aries. Surroundings: Rimetea village (ethnographic museum); Coltesti village ( antic and medieval fortification; ruins); Poiana Trascaului summit (1130m. alt.); Poiana Aiudului keys; Muntele Filii chalet (550m. alt.); Baisoara chalet (1385m. alt.)

Aiud: city placed at the confluence of Aiud river with Mures. Celtic vestiges, Daco-Roman settlement (Brucla), documentary mentioned in 1299. Powerful handicraft, agrarian and cultural centre. Fortress (XV century); museums of history, natural sciences; documentary library of great value. Surroundings: Piana Aiudului keys; Sloboda chalet.

Alba Iulia : city placed at the confluence of Ampoi with Mures; residence city of Alba district. Vestiges from the Neolithic époque, Dacian fortification (Apolum, II-I BC), roman city (Colonia Aurelia Apulenis, 180-193 AC);documentary mentioned in Middle Ages, at 1097. Alba Carolina fortress (1716-1735); Union Museum with sections of archeology, history, ethnography, plastic arts; Battyaneum library (1792); monuments of architecture (XIII-XVIII century). Surroundings:  Craiva village (vestiges of Apoulon fortress, at Piatra Cravii, around 1000m. alt.)

Geoagiu Bai: village settled in Zlatna-Glod depression, at the foots of Metaliferi from Apuseni Mountains, on the valley of the river with the same name. Permanent balneal-climacteric resort (350m. alt.), Thermai Dodonae in the times of Romans. Therapeutic indications: affections of the locomotive system, genecology, affections of the alimentary channel, hepatic and biliary. Surroundings: Cigmau village (antic Germisara, cave;) Aurel Vlaicu village (memorial museum); Balsa village (keys, karst area).

Orastie: city placed near the confluence of Orasului (Gradistea) with Mures. Old Romanian settlement (documentary attested in 1224) where appear in 1582, from local printing, “Palia de la Orastie”, from the first printings in Romanian. Ethnographic museum; medieval fortification (XV century).

Costesti: village from the valley of Gradistea river. Surroundings: Cetatuia hill (the most northern from the Dacian fortifications from Orastiei mountains, II BC; hill Blidarul (two Dacian fortresses, I BC)

Gradistea de Munte: village spread to the springs of Gradistea. Gradistea hill (1200m. alt.)- economic, military, politic and religious centre of the Dacian state (I AC), Sarmizegetusa Basileion, the main Dacian settlement from Orastiei mountains (fortress, sanctums; restoring).

Simeria: city placed near the confluence of Strei with Mures. Vestiges from Iron Age, Dacian-Roman settlement. From 1866, important railway point. Biscaria dendrology park (70ha, founded 250 years ago); commemorative monument (Simeria Veche, 1849); Uroiu fortress (antic fortifications, medieval, ruins).

Calan: city settled in the superior basin of Strei. Rural settlement (pagus) in Roman Dacia (II AC), on the territory of the colony Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa. Seasonal balneal locality (231m. alt), its thermal waters used also by Romans, while was named Aque, Ad Aquas or Aquae Callidae (antic bathing basin, carved in rock); recommended in treating rheumatism. Monument of architecture, trough the oldest in the country (Streisangeorgiu, XI century). Surroundings: Luncani village (Piatra Rosie Dacian fortress).

Hunedoara: city placed on Cernei valley, at the foot of the Nordic versant of Poiana Ruscai mountains. Documentary mentioned in XIII century: well known handicraft centre. Castelul Corvinestilor –Castle, the most important laic monument of gothic architecture from Romania (XV century)-museum of old art; monuments of architecture (1458, 1644). Surroundings: Telicu Inferior village (lake, leisure place, inn), Runcului keys; Padurenilor land (Poiana Ruscai mountains).

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