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Municipality in Argeș, Romania
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Pitești is the capital and largest city of Argeș County, Romania. The settlement has the reputation of the city of tulips, because here being hosted an annual important festival called Simfonia Lalelelor. In 2021, Pitești had a population of 141,000 people, making it the thirteenth largest urban center in Romania.
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Biserica Domneascǎ Sfântul Gheorghe
The oldest church in the city. It was built in 1656 by the Prince of Vallachia Constantin Șerban and his wife Doamna Bălașa. This monument has a special architecture that reflects the refinement of the art of ecclesiastical construction in Wallachia in the middle of the 17th century.
Piața Vasile Milea
It is the central square of the city. No matter how short the time you spend in Pitesti, you have to come to Vasile Milea Square for a walk or even for shopping.
Muzeul Județean Argeș
Organized in the building built between 1889-1899 as the headquarters of the former Prefecture of the county on the site where the Buliga hermitage church was located, the museum has a U-shaped symmetrical plane that appeals to the French school academy and to the repertoires of antiquity Greek and French Renaissance. The museum houses a series of archaeological discoveries that speak freely about the continuity of the Romanians in these lands: coins, objects of worship, ornaments that illustrate the succession of historical epochs, as well as an ecological exhibition, among the first of its kind in the country.
Parcul 1907
Galeria de Artă Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna
Art gallery works in a building of 1886 which until 1970 housed Town Hall. It has a collection of 1100 paintings and classical and contemporary sculpture. The rooms upstairs are exhibited by Nicolae Grigorescu, Stefan Luchian, Pallady, Gh. Petraşcu and Nicholas Tonitza, setting out some milestones in the history of each artist plastic. These artists gave Romanian painting personality, founded the national school of modern painting. Also, upstairs, two rooms are dedicated to painting museum Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna.
Teatrul Alexandru Davila
Primăria
Poarta Eroilor
Unveiled on September 28, 1926, the monument was built in the form of a traditional Romanian gate, being made of masonry on foundations and a stone basement and tiled roof. Above the wide opening vault, to the street, stands in the archaic capital of the Poarta Eroilor, and in the inner arch is a brief explanation "For the country, for glory and for the flag". On the pillars are the names of the localities where the military operations took place in the years 1916-1917 and the names of hundreds of soldiers fallen in debt in the campaigns from 1877-1878 and 1916-1918. Having the stately stature of a triumphal arch, the gate is meant to be a tribute to the over 1,100 heroes fallen for the achievement of national unity. Argeş's Heroes Gate was restored in 1971.
Parcul Trivale
Trivale Park is the largest natural park in Romania, occupying an area of approximately 7,000 ha. Here are three valleys of streams, hence the name of Trivale. It consists of thermophilic oaks, diversity of vegetation and phyto-geological significance, placing it among the forests of great importance. The park really deserves to be visited because the pleasant, no-tiring atmosphere even made you smile. The rhetoric of the thermophilous oaks forests, the diversity of vegetation, the special phytogeographical importance give the Trivale forest a real importance. The park was declared a monument of nature in 1939.
Schitul Trivale
The Trivale Hermitage, nestled on a scenic hill, was built between 1677-1688.
Grădina Zoologică Pitești
In the Zoological Garden of Piteşti can be seen more than 130 animals, of 39 species, including: Emu ostrich, peacock, tiger, lions, bears, white bourbon, deer, monkeys, foxes, wolves, nuts, goats of Cameroon, as well as different species of birds of prey. Zoo remains one of the favorite places for children and parents in sunny days.
Biserica Sfânta Vineri
It was built at the beginning of the 20th century. The imposing edifice draws the audience's attention through the ornamentation that copies in large part that of the Curtea de Arges Monastery by the four columns with capitals worked after the ancient Greek stone architecture by Albeşti de Muscel and the mosaics on the right and left of the entrance main.
Biserica Treime
Planetariu
Memorialul Închisoarea Pitești
Biserica Mavrodolu
Fântâna Muzicală
Muzeului Viticulturii şi Pomiculturii Goleşti
Piramida din Prundu
Promenada Argeșului
Barajul Budeasa
Strada Victoriei
Biserica Meculești
This is the first pub to be opened in the city.
Sleek and modern-looking.
Very formal.
Nice fountain in foreground of somber concrete hotel structure.
The first mall in the city, it was opened in 2007.
There are frequent trains from Bucharest (including three Rapid type trains) and Craiova.
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