High constructions provided in the superior part with powerful light sources, they were for a long time the only fix means for ensuring the navigation. Throughout the time, they were replaced by the electronic navigation systems. Orșova is situated on the border of the barrier lake Porțile de Fier I from the Danube, in the […]

Mihai Eminescu (born Mihail Eminovici; born on the 15th of January 1850, Botoșani – deaceased on the 15th of June 1889, Bucharest), was a Romanian poet, prose man and journalist, considered by the Romanian readers and posthumous literary critics as the most important poetic voices from the Romanian literature. Receptive to the European novels from […]

The name of Obârșia de Câmp is of Slavic origin and comes from the establishment of this village on the place where there are met many river heads, which were channeled meanwhile and arranged by the inhabitants for pisciculture and recreation. The commune is composed of two villages, Izimșa and Obârșia de Câmp, it is […]

The Pleșa Castle from Obârșia de Câmp was built in 1892 by the aristocrat Gheorghe Pleșa in the style of the castles from the Valley of the Loire. The legend of the place says the fact that the father of the aristocrat Gheorghe Pleșa, the village’s skinner during the times of the Ottoman Empire, offered […]

The Hydro-energetic and Navigation system Porțile de Fier I, symbol of the Romanian energetic, proof of the Romanian – Yugoslavian collaboration, was inaugurated on the 16th of May 1972. The Museum of the Hydroelectric Power Plant was opened in 1976, presenting general characteristics of the Danube, the hydrological data, material testimonies of the human establishments […]

The system Porțile de Fier I is one of the biggest hydro technical constructions from Europe and the biggest from the Danube, with an installed power of 2235 MW. Its barrier lake with a volume of over 2200 million mc is extended from the barrier until the confluence with the Tisa River. In the year […]

The monument was built up in the honor of the heroes fallen on the Alion heights in October 1916, being inaugurated on the 1st of December 1993, after 75 years from the foundation of the Grand Romania. The First World War meant for Romania, the execution of the national ideal, the unification of the people. […]

The Mraconia Monastery was built up on the place of a former observation and supervision point of the ships from the Danube, because thanks to the architecture of the relief, by the bluntness from place to place of the defile there couldn’t pass simultaneously two ships. This maximum bluntness and broadening of the river received […]

The Congregation Hinova is formed by three suburbs – Seliștea, Urziștea and Rudaria, named therefore because of the fact that is formed only from cloth, layer, spoon and skirts masters. The two suburbs Urziștea and Rudaria are separated from the suburb Saliștea from the creek named until the year 1965 when its channel was concreted, […]

The Assumption of Mary Church from the locality Gura Văii was built in the XXth century following the needs of the inhabitants of having a place of worship. This was executed with the support of the inhabitants. Gura Văii is a component locality of the municipality Drobeta Turnu Severin from Oltenia. Here was built the […]