Valcea county

An explosion took place Thursday afternoon at the Armament Factory in Babeni, Valcea County, caused by a projectile, killing a 22-year old man and injuring several other workers. The SMURD doctors arriving at the site could not save the…

An emergency phone call to 112 started the alert for the Calimanesti mountain gendarmes and a team of mountain rescuers in Valcea County, who embarked on a rescue mission in search for two French tourists. The two failed to follow the track…

The largest electricity producer in Valcea County, insolvent CET Govora, and Polish Ciech Soda have concluded a ten-year contract for supplying industrial steam, its total value is EUR 360 million, Euro Insol, the insolvency administrator…

Pitesti Court of Appeal has given final sentences in a part of the file on the illegal restitution of forest in the Puru, Galbenu and Petrimanu mountains in Valcea County and decided to convict four members of the network which sold timber…

One of the most beautiful villages in Romania is hidden somewhere in a forest in Vâlcea county, ancestrally displaying its 500-year old wooden houses as in a true live village museum. The fact that Firijba village counts only few…

The largest producer of electric power in Valcea County has asked for insolvency in court. The Electric power plant and thermal energy producer Govora supplies the cities of Ramnicu Valcea, Baile Olanesti and Calimanesti-Caciulata…

A smaller version of Liberty Parade, however equally noisy, takes place in the last five years in a commune in Valcea County. The parade on the commune’s streets with house music rhythms began as a joke on a tractor, but this year over 150…

Ocnele Mari spa resort is located in Oltenia Region, 15 kilometers from Ramnicu-Valcea and 8 km from Govora. Actually, Ocnele Mari is the oldest town in the Valcea County, with its ancient Dacian Buridava citadel, built by the Burs (old…

The National Park Buila-Vânturari?a is located in the central-northern part of Vâlcea County in the C?p??ânii Mountains (group included in Parâng Mountains, a subgroup of mountains in the Southern Carpathians). Its beauty and uniqueness…

The second largest exhibition center in the country, for the construction of which it was invested EUR 12 million, but stood unused for five years, has finally found a destination. According to digi24.ro, the exhibition center at Seaca -…