The Jiu Valley is a region in southwestern Transylvania, Romania, in Hunedoara county, situated in a valley of the Jiu River between the Retezat Mountains and the Parâng Mountains. The region was heavily industrialised and the main activity was coal mining, but due to low efficiency, most of the mines were closed down in the years following the collapse of Communism in Romania. For a long time the place was called Romania's biggest coalfield.
Jiu Valley scenery
Writer Panait Istrati (second from the right) with coal miners of Lupeni, during the 1929 protests
Petroșani
Vulcan
Hunedoara County is a county (județ) of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion.
The Hunedoara County Prefecture building of the interwar period, currently serving the same function.
Gold and sphalerite on quartz, from Sacarîmb, Hunedoara County. Scale at bottom is one inch, with a rule at one cm.
European bison in Hațeg nature reserve
Ruins of Dacian temples of Sarmizegetusa Regia