Danubia Statue and a view of the Danube River near the Iron Gates, Romania
Hello travelers
A week ago I managed to get to a place that I've been wanting to go to for a while, not that the city is something amazing but the event that is organized there is something that has never been seen before, so the organizers say, so let's go there, let's see if the reality is the same as what is written online.
In today's post I won't tell you where exactly we were but I will show you some photos taken on the banks of the Cerna river and on the banks of the Danube river on our way to our final destination.
If by any chance you are planning a trip through the south-west of Romania, put on your map a few places right next to the Danube river, Orsova would be a great city to visit, you have many options here, from good food to boat trips on the Danube but don't forget the museum of the Iron Gates I Hydropower Plant (I gave only two examples but there are many more).
What I found strange was the weather until we got near Orsova the weather was perfect (I managed to take a few pictures) and when we got close to Orsova everything changed, I had the feeling that rain was coming, but even so we stopped in two important places here.
I was curious if I would find a spot in the roadside parking lots, because they were all full of trucks.
When I arrived at the desired place, of course the parking lot was full of trucks but even so I somehow parked the car behind a truck.
The first objective here was the Danubia statue, a very important objective and below I will leave you some information.
Yes, Romania also has a Statue of Liberty. Of post-communist freedom. It's called the Danubia and you can admire it on the road between Drobeta Turnu Severin and Timișoara.On the national road, after you pass the Iron Gates 1 hydroelectric power station, there are several rest areas on the river side. Most of them are unkempt and littered with rubbish, but they are real vantage points because the Danube is grand in the area and the views are superb. Near the entrance to Orșova, in one such picnic spot, a parking lot in fact, equipped by the road company with a few tables and chairs, sits the Romanian version of the Statue of Liberty.
Like the American one, it depicts a woman, ready to throw herself into the river. It's made of ceramic, over 6 meters high and quite sexy, as the same 14-year-old kid who learned about communism from stories or history books would tell you, but doesn't quite understand why the Serbian side of the Danube was bathed in lights before 1989 while ours was plunged in darkness, or why the TV program was only on for two hours.
So voluptuous, majestic, sad, unkempt, uninscribed, but still baptized, Danubia is related to the "Golden Age", but it does not speak of deprivation, it is the embodiment of courage, the desire for freedom, the dream of a better life. Thousands of Romanians paid with their lives under communism to escape Ceausescu's Romania by swimming across the Danube. The western border is considered Europe's bloodiest frontier because it was the illegal exit route to the West. Sportsmen, artists, doctors, engineers and ordinary people disgusted by the communist regime left for all over the world.
In the distance we can also see part of Orsova.
At the other end of the parking lot we found another monument erected in honor of the completion of the communication works at the Iron Gates, works that lasted from 1964-1969, as the coat of arms shows I think it is a railway.
The road along the Danube river is spectacular so somewhere not far from the Iron Gates museum we made another stop.
Let's have a look at the Serbian side.
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