Day trips from Craiova

Oltenia is where the day out is. Everything here is driveable and back the same evening.

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Danube Gorges (Cazanele Dunării)

The Danube narrows into a limestone canyon on the Serbian border, and the road runs along the water the whole way through it.

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Băile Herculane

A Habsburg spa town wedged into the Cerna gorge, built where the Romans already bathed.

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Târgu Jiu — the Brâncuși axis

Brâncuși laid three works out along one straight kilometre through the town, as a war memorial: the Table of Silence and the Gate of the Kiss in the riverside park, then across the road and along the avenue to the Endless Column.

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The Işalnița run — a morning, not a day

The short one.

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Horezu — monastery and pottery

Two things in the same small town.

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