Cruise and concert on the Danube, Orchestra Conducted by Florin Totan

About the Danube Gorges

The Danube Gorges

The Danube Gorges are a 45 km length of water, having a width of 152 m at its narrowest path. Here, the old river carved dramatic walls into the rocky mountains, almost vertically, leaving only a small window to the sky. The river is here 54 meters deep and the curved valley turns the water with a speed of 18 km / hour. The water becomes more furious reaching the Great Gorges, releasing its power into a frightful roar of anger.

The entrance of the gorges of the great Danube is the point where time stops completely and another dimension is revealed. Maybe the one hiding the secrets of the great beginning… maybe the one imagined by the old masters who carved the impressive rocks into human faces depicting our great ancient warriors. If only these huge rocks could speak … or maybe it is better to let the one entering these gorges to imagine their own story about this place, and find their inspiration in the surrounding landscapes, the stone embroidery carved by great winds, rains and water.

This world is one of mystery and dreams and its wild perspective is crossed by impressive rocks, scattered like light wounds in Danube’s massive body. The pine forests rising on the banks of the old river pierce the sky in a high note. And the still and frightful mountains hide many little rivers trembling along the rocks and drowning into the unknown of the dark green forests.

This land is more known by the embargo smugglers rather than by … the tourists.

The hills on the banks of the river reveal many secrets of life: scattered fishing villages that became rich during the Serbian embargo, rich orchards and vineyards and even the remains of a great defense Roman Castrum

PROGRAM

2 days/1 night

Route: BUCHAREST- PITESTI-CURTEA DE ARGES - RM VALCEA-TG. JIU - TURNU SEVERIN – HERCULANE – ORSOVA – CRAIOVA –SLATINA – PITESTI - BUCHAREST – 900 KM

The Kiss Gate/Brancusi

Curtea de Arges

Herculane resort

Orsova

Hightlights: Royal Court Curtea de Arges, Kiss Gate, Table of Silence, The Endless Column/ BRANCUSI

Route: Bucharest - Curtea de Arges - Rm. Valcea -Tg. Jiu-Turnu Severin – Herculane – 450 km

7,30: Departure to Curtea de Arges.

10,00 Arrival to Curtea de Arges.Tour of the remains of the 13 century Royal Court and Church built by Basarab I and of Curtea de Arges Monastery.

12,00: Departure to Tg.Jiu

14,00: Arrival to Tg. Jiu, lunch. Visit the Brancusi Complex: The Kiss Gate, The Table of Silence and The Endless Column.

16,00: Departure to Turnu Severin.

17,30-19,30: Tour of Turnu Severin: Emperor Traian’s 1^st century Monument, Ruins of the

Roman Castrum, Drobeta and Traian’s Bridgent, build by Apolodor of Damascus.

19,30: Departure to Baile Herculane. Accommodation and overnight.

Hightlights: Cruise and Concert on the Danube

Route: Herculane – Orsova – Craiova – Pitesti – Bucharest – 450 Km

8,00: Breakfast and checkout.

9,00: Tour of Herculane, the oldest Romanian spa built by Romans in 153 AD.

11,00: Departure to Orsova

11,30-12,30: visit of the St. Ana Monastery, Orsova.

13,00: Boarding on the cruise boat and departure on the Danube, the most spectacular part

ON THE LONGEST NARROW PATH OF THE RIVER

13,30-14,30: buffet lunch on the boat

14,45-15,30: concert of the “Sinfonia Bucuresti” Orchestra Conducted by Florin Totan

W. A. Mozart - Little Serenade

A. Vivaldi - Seasons

F. Händel - Water Music

B. Bartok - Romanian Folk Dances

16.00:return to Orsova and return to Bucuresti.

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