Pietroasele is a commune in Romania known for its vineyards and wine production. It is composed of six villages and became famous for the discovery of a treasure in 1837 of gold and precious stones. The area has a history of Dacian and Roman settlements, with ruins of a Roman fort and thermal baths discovered. Pietroasele produces sweet wines from grape varieties suited to the region's soil and climate conditions, including Busuioaca de Bohotin.

1. Pietroasele Village
Nume : Horhocea Oana-Diana• Profesor Coordonator
• Frumuselu Mihai

2. Pietroasele village
Pietroasele is a commune
in Buzău County, Romania,
known for its vineyars. The
name means "the rockies".
The commune is composed
of six villages: Câlţeşti,
Clondiru de Sus, Dara,
Pietroasa Mică, Pietroasele
and Şarânga. It became
famous with the discovery
in 1837 of the Treasury
Pietroasa composed of
several pieces of gold and
precious stones. The
Romanian historian
Alexandru Odobescu wrote
a book on the
archaeological discovery.

3. • A Dacian fortress is located at 1,5 km
north of Pietroasa Mică village.
• Ruins of the Roman thermae at
Pietroasele near county road.
• Ruins of a third-fourth century
AD Roman castra and thermae were
discovered in the area in the 1980s. The
Roman fort of Pie tro asa de Jo s , well
beyond the Danubian Limes and near
present-day Moldavia, would seem to
have been occupied in the fourth century
A.D. It was connected to bridge-head
forts along the left bank of
the Danube river.
• Near this Roman fort, built by
Constantine I when he created
the Co nstantine Wall of the Limes
Moesiae probably around 330 AD,
researchers have found even a
small thermae building in the 1980s.The
Roman fortification was built in an area
where was present the Culture o f
Pie tro asa.

4. • The Pietroasele treasure, an Ostrogothic hoard uncovered in
1837 by local villagers, is on display at the National Museum
of Romania history, in Bucharest. The original gold hoard,
discovered within a large ring barrow known as "Istriţa hill"
near Pietroasele, is a late fourth-century Gothic treasure that
included some twenty-two objects of gold, among the most
famous examples of the polychrome style of Migration Period
art. The total weight of the find was approximately 20
kilograms.
• Two of the targets are classified as monuments of
architecture, both in the village of Pietroasele: a stone fountain
dating from 1892 and a viticulture research station built in
1893. Three objects are considered tombstones or
memorials: Cruce a Frum o as ă (Beautiful Cross), dating from
the 19th century, Stan Avram andIo n Le m naru (1841) from
Pietroasa Minor.

5. • Through it`s soil and climate conditions, the Pietroasa
viticultural domain distinguishes fromthe one in Urla iţ
through its osseous soil, with high limestone content,
established on calciferous soil, the terrain exposure, its rich
heliothermal resources and a regime low enough on
precipitation. Consisting of high temperatures and low
precipitations, this region is excellent forsweet and flavoured
grape varieties.
• Basilescu Winery owns over40 ha cultivated with: Busuioacă
de Bohotin, Romanian Muscatel, White Maiden and Italian
Riesling, fromthe wine category with Controlled Origin
Naming (D.O.C.) – Pietroasa. This is the region fromwhich
grapes fromin the Ingeri din Micul Paris, Eclipse and Dessert-
wines – Busuioac de Bohotin gamut, withdraw theirsap.ă