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Natural park in southwestern Romania
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Cazanele Mici
Cazanele Mare
The most famous and the most narrow part of the Iron Gates gorge. The river here narrows to 150 m and reaches a depth of up to 53 m.
Chipul lui Decebal
The tallest rock sculpture in Europe, a 40-m high carving in rock of the face of Decebalus, the last king of Dacia.
Peștera Ponicova
The biggest cave in the Danube Canyon, totalling . Accessible both from the land and from the Danube, by boat.
Cetatea Tricule
Ruin of a 15th-century fortress.
The biggest Czech community in Romania lives in this small village (~300 inhabitants). A small local restaurant and brewery are available. The reconstructed village access road, with its nickname Transeibenthal referring to Transfăgărășan, is popular among motorcyclists.
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ItinerariesThe Danube is the second-longest river in Europe, with a length of 2,850 km (1,770 mi). It begins in the Black Forest in Germany and flows east to the Black Sea, forming the Danube Delta on its western coast.
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Culture & historyThe Roman Empire was the greatest ancient empire of Europe. At the height of its power in 117 AD, it ruled over considerable parts of Europe, as well as much of North Africa and the Middle East.
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Culture & historyFrom the end of World War II in 1945 until the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, Europe was divided between two political blocs: east and west. The border was figuratively called the Iron Curtain.
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Travel tipsThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР)), or Soviet Union, emerged as the successor state to the Russian Empire in 1917, and was dissolved in 1991.
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