Cultural heritage of the Olt county

Route Description

  • Length of the tourist route: 140 km
  • Duration: 2 days
  • Sequence of travel along the tourist route:
    • Starting point: Oryahovo – Bechet
    • Intermediate destination: Corabia – Caracal
    • End point: Slatina
  • Seasonal access: Year – round

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Spatial orientation

1. Those important monasteries are not easy to be visited because are spleted in entire county.
Museums – Olt county is very reach county in museum, which can be connected in a route with counties from its nebourghood Dolj and Teleorman and also to be connected with Bulgaria: entering through Oryahovo/Becket(where in Oryahovo is an important museum) we can go to Craiova where are several important museums(historical, natural, art and ethnographic). From Craiova another important museum is Slatina and just near by Stoicanesti and Draganesti Olt museums and the end of the line should be Alexandria/Teleorman, where is an important museum also, by there you can go down Turnu Magurele/Nikopole or to Zimnicaea/Svishtov. There is also an important museum in Caracal, a town middle distance between Slatina and Corabia, where is a complex of touristical targets as natural park, national theatre and historical museum also. (Those are additional).
2. Most important ethnographical object in entire Romania border is a line between Craiova/Dolj – Slatina/Olt and Alexandria/Teleorman which are missing in the right site of Danube in entire Bulgaria: pottery hand-made center as: Corbeni, Romana, Oboga, Vadastra all of them in Olt, and Madaeni in Teleorman.This line is called “The golden line of the pottery”, because in Craiova is Casa Banie(biggest ethnographical complex); in Bals is located Corbani, Romana and Oboga(3 pottery centers in Oboga); in Slatina is also a museum; Between Alexandria and Slatina is located Cucuteni culture. Stoicanesti and Draganesti museums are there.

Possible ways of transportation

– Arriving at the destination: Oryahovo – Bechet ferry line
– Travel during the stay: automobile; bus; taxi; ferry

Sites

– Complexul Sucidava
– Situl arheologic de la Reşca-Romula
– Complexul muzeal etnografic Boianu Şcoala veche (1890)
– Teatrul Naţional (1900-1901)
– Muzeul judetean Olt (1887)
– Muzeul Romanaţiului
– Muzeul de Arheologie și Etnografie (1900)

Additional sites to visit

– Pădurea Călugărească
– Confluența Olt-Dunăre
– Complexul Brâncoveni – Mânăstirea Brâncoveni (1699);
– Mânăstirea Clocociov (1645)
– Mănăstirea Călui (1588)
– Crama „Domeniile Sâmbureşti”
– Pivnițele Theodoros
– Crama Cepari
– Crama Bolovanul – Vinarte
– Crama Mennini

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