2. Map Valcea County Vâlcea county, located in southern Romania, and covers an area of 5765 km ² and is bordered by the counties of Sibiu and Alba from the north, east Argeş County, Olt county in the south and southeast, Dolj southwest, Gorj County west and Hunedoara northwest.
3. The City RAMNICU VALCEA RamnicuValcea municipality is the capital and largest city of Vâlcea county, Oltenia, located on both sides of the river olt. City, bathing waters alutus old is an old settlement came from the shadow of time
Vâlcea county has an area of 5765 km2, which represents 2.43% of Romania, and is divided into the following administrative-territorial units: 2 municipalities (RamnicuValcea - County resident and Drăgăşani), 8 cities (Brezoi, Govora Baths, Olăneşti Baths, Călimăneşti, Horezu mines and Mari, which were added BabeniBalcesti and that cities were declared in 2002) and 75 communes. It is situated in the south of central Romania, in the middle of the Olt River basin, south of the Meridional Carpathians, Vâlcea county adjoins the counties of Sibiu and Alba in the north, south Dolj, Olt south - east, Gorj and Hunedoara west and arges east.
Museum Valcean Museum Vâlcean he outlined the profile or theme of the 1974 yet as a village museum, designed to reconstruct an area of 8 hectares, the image of a functional and traditional rural settlements, with all its social institutions spiritual culturale.Viata is handsomely presented, since the entry into the village primary school, the wooden church founded in 1785 by troitele and crosses on the roadside. Inn is ready to receive guests. You will notice that households and community buildings transferred from different localities of the county were located taking into account the forms of relief in the area so that anything not inspire an attitude deliberately idyllic. Households in which there is value concerns traditional handicrafts, popular techniques and specialized construction are able to provide unadulterated image of the village vâlcean. Households are 45 in number, furnished with over 8500 pieces made by traditional means. It is shown evolving from STÂNA mountain area, home to the hearth of the village with one or more rooms. You will notice especially homes with kitchen area and ethnographic Horezu viticulturist households in the vineyard Dragasani. We propose a periplus by village vâlcean whose values we have preserved, as we invite you to our house at our table, the unique spiritual universe that characterizes this region, where reality blends with myth, giving life to the most sincere expression of authentic Romanian. The model of traditional rural settlement, with its social institutions and cultural, which have the privilege to know and the outlined profile theme since 1969 and entered into the tourist visitation in 1974, when we considered was reached as a distinct personality .
Forms of relief are varied. Come down from the north, the mountainous area with altitudes that reach over 2400 m, represented by Capatanii Mountains (Vf.Ursu - 2124 m) Mountains Lotrului (Vf.Sterpu -2142 m), Fagaras (Vf.Suru -2283 m), Mount Cozia (National Park Cozia, Vf.Cozia -1668 m). Area between the mountain and plateau, the transition is made through a trough - Depression Lovistei with wonderful country Lovistei. Central and southern areas are dominated by hills and plateaus extend, with altitudes between 400-800 m, which are part of Oltenia and Subcarpatii Plateau getic. The southern form of relief is Oltetului platform beyond which begins Plain Romana (Dolj County). Municipality of RamnicuValcea, Valcea county capital, has an average elevation of 250 m, and mountain resort Voineasa average altitude is 650 m.
