Where are we going

Where are we going

Hmm, are you ready?!

You know, we are convinced that you will find here even more than you expected: comfort and a pleasant place to spend a few days. But in addition you can ski, you can go hiking in the mountains, then you have to try the food specific to the place or you can simply sit in front of the fireplace or on the terrace, in the sun, depending on the season. Here is what you could do in Baia de Fier and its surroundings. 

Where are we going

Hmm, are you ready?!

You know, we are convinced that you will find here even more than you expected: comfort and a pleasant place to spend a few days. But in addition you can ski, you can go hiking in the mountains, then you have to try the food specific to the place or you can simply sit in front of the fireplace or on the terrace, in the sun, depending on the season. Here is what you could do in Baia de Fier and its surroundings. 

Muierilor Cave:
5min - 2km

Muierilor Cave is a few minutes from the guesthouse. It is one of the most important caves in the country,Read more

the first electrified one in Romania. Completely petrified cave bears were discovered in the Muierilor Cave.

To Hammock:
5min - 2km

Hammocks at a height are a unique place in Romania. The hammocks on the rocks, at a height of 200m,Read more

also entered the Book of Records.

Muierilor Cave:
5min - 2km

Muierilor Cave is a few minutes from the guesthouse. It is one of the most important caves in the country, the first electrified one in Romania. Completely petrified cave bears were discovered in the Muierilor Cave.

To Hammock:
5min - 2km

Hammocks at a height are a unique place in Romania. The hammocks on the rocks, at a height of 200m, also entered the Book of Records.

 

Cheile Galbenului:
8min - 3km

The Yellow River managed to make its way through the slopes of the Parâng Mountains for a distance of almost 2 kilometers. Tourists also come here for rock climbing, as the walls are suitable for such activities.

Via ferrata routes:
8min - 3km

Baia de Fier commune is the locality with the most via-ferrata routes in the country. Many of the routes from Baia de Fier are in the top of mountain tourism enthusiasts because they bring together the effort of a climb and the respite to observe the wonders of nature.

Climbing:
8min - 3km

The most spectacular climbing routes are in Gorj. The mountain awaits you, you will notice the lines very well marked by climbing routes.

Polovragi Cave:
15min - 8km

Polovragi cave is full of legends, being known as the place where the god Zamolxis found refuge. The cave houses a rich fauna consisting of bat species.

Bumbești Jiu - Curtișoara Museum:
25min - 22km

Life in the old village is represented at the Folk Architecture Museum, through mansions and noble or peasant wooden houses, on which we find the symbols of our identity, on an area of more than 10 hectares.

Bumbești Pițic - Overturned house:
12min - 6km

Near the Colored Forest is the Overturned House, an original project where nothing is as you expected In this house, the ceiling is the floor, so the roof is embedded in the ground, the bed is on the ceiling, and the TV shows the image in reverse.

Bumbești Pițic - Colored forest:
12min - 6km

It is a manifesto of the artist Mihai Țopescu on illegal deforestation. The colored forest is located on DN 67, between Horezu and Târgu Jiu. Tree trunks painted in various colors with ecological paint attract thousands of tourists every year.

Baile Săcelu:
28min - 30km

Mineral water pools have therapeutic value due to their content rich in sulfur, chlorine, bromine and iodine. The mineral waters of the deposit, the therapeutic mud and the climate of the area led to the appearance of the resort. Mineral water pools have therapeutic value due to their content rich in sulfur, chlorine, bromine and iodine.

Rânca - Transalpina:
28min - 19km

In less than an hour, leaving Baia de Fier, you reach the Rânca-Transalpina area, the highest road from Romania. Transalpina offers wonderful landscapes, and the winding road of almost 150 km brings tens of thousands of tourists to Rânca, recommended for practicing winter sports or motor sports, bicycle, ATV and paragliding.

Brâncusi's works:
50min - 49km

Since 1938, Târgu Jiu has become special because Brâncusi's absolutely fabulous works are here: Table of Silence, Kissing Gate and Endless Column. Take your time and look at them. It's your decision what you see; eye or kiss, dowry chest or a hora, maybe you see hourglasses or the ancestral table, or Romanian symbols or not, a house pole or a screw... But see!

Bengesti Ciocadia - "Maria Lătărețu" Memorial House:
25min - 19km

The "Maria Lătărețu" museum house in Bengești-Ciocadia commune, near Baia de Fier, hosts personal items of the great Romanian popular music artist.

Crasna - Crasna Hermitage, Crasna Monastery:
25min - 22km


The church dating from 1637 is of Byzantine type, it has a tall, wooden pediment with a sculpture polished with gold leaves. You have to find out her story.

Polovragi Monastery:
15min - 8km

The Polovragi Monastery is unique in the country due to the fresco painting of the church porch between the years 1698 and 1703. The painters were the first students from the Brâncoveneasc School of the Hurezi Monastery.

Icoana Monastery:
30min - 25km

The Icoana monastery is located at the foot of Parâng mountain. The church dates from 1996 and is a construction of wooden beams on a stone and concrete foundation.

Cheile Galbenului:
8min - 3km

The Yellow River managed to make its way through the slopes of the Parâng Mountains for a distance of almost 2 kilometers.Read more

Tourists also come here for rock climbing, as the walls are suitable for such activities.

Via ferrata routes:
8min - 3km

Baia de Fier commune is the locality with the most via-ferrata routes in the country. Many of the routesRead more

from Baia de Fier are in the top of mountain tourism enthusiasts because they bring together the effort of a climb and the respite to observe the wonders of nature.

Climbing:
8min - 3km

The most spectacular climbing routes are in Gorj. The mountain awaits you, you will notice the linesRead more

very well marked by climbing routes.

Polovragi Cave:
15min - 8km

Polovragi cave is full of legends, being known as the place where the god Zamolxis found refuge.Read more

The cave houses a rich fauna consisting of bat species.

Bumbești Jiu - Curtișoara Museum:
25min - 22km

Life in the old village is represented at the Folk Architecture Museum, through mansions andRead more

noble or peasant wooden houses, on which we find the symbols of our identity, on an area of more than 10 hectares.

Bumbești Pițic - Overturned house:
12min - 6km

Near the Colored Forest is the Overturned House, an original project where nothing isRead more

as you expected In this house, the ceiling is the floor, so the roof is embedded in the ground, the bed is on the ceiling, and the TV shows the image in reverse.

Bumbești Pițic - Colored forest:
12min - 6km

It is a manifesto of the artist Mihai Țopescu on illegal deforestation. The colored forest is located on DN 67,Read more

between Horezu and Târgu Jiu. Tree trunks painted in various colors with ecological paint attract thousands of tourists every year.

Baile Săcelu:
28min - 30km

Mineral water pools have therapeutic value due to their content rich in sulfur, chlorine, bromine and iodine.Read more

The mineral waters of the deposit, the therapeutic mud and the climate of the area led to the appearance of the resort. Mineral water pools have therapeutic value due to their content rich in sulfur, chlorine, bromine and iodine.

Rânca - Transalpina:
28min - 19km

In less than an hour, leaving Baia de Fier, you reach the Rânca-Transalpina area, the highestRead more

road from Romania. Transalpina offers wonderful landscapes, and the winding road of almost 150 km brings tens of thousands of tourists to Rânca, recommended for practicing winter sports or motor sports, bicycle, ATV and paragliding.

Brâncusi's works:
50min - 29km

Since 1938, Târgu Jiu has become special because Brâncusi's absolutely fabulous works are here:Read more

Table of Silence, Kissing Gate and Endless Column. Take your time and look at them. It's your decision what you see; eye or kiss, dowry chest or a hora, maybe you see hourglasses or the ancestral table, or Romanian symbols or not, a house pole or a screw... But see!

Bengesti Ciocadia - "Maria Lătărețu" Memorial House:
25min - 19km

The "Maria Lătărețu" museum house in Bengești-Ciocadia commune, near Baia de Fier, hostsRead more

personal items of the great Romanian popular music artist.

Crasna - Crasna Hermitage, Crasna Monastery:
25min - 22km

The church dating from 1637 is of Byzantine type, it has a tall, wooden pediment with a sculpture polished with gold leaves.Read more

You have to find out her story. 

Polovragi Monastery:
15min - 8km

The Polovragi Monastery is unique in the country due to the fresco painting of the church porchRead more

between the years 1698 and 1703. The painters were the first students from the Brâncoveneasc School of the Hurezi Monastery.

Icoana Monastery:
30min - 25km

The Icoana monastery is located at the foot of Parâng mountain. The church dates from 1996 and is a constructionRead more

of wooden beams on a stone and concrete foundation.

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