Tourist guide Pitesti

1. Zoo

I parked the car in front of Matei Basarab School. My first destination was Trivale area. I followed Petre Ispirescu street which climbs two successive terraces of Gavana neighborhood up to Trivale Forest where it turns into Nicolae Labis street. On the last 100 meters the street is not asphalted, but passable. Further on we reach a T-junction marked with signs.

I went left, through the woods, towards the Zoo. Following the signs, I arrived in front of the entrance to Zoo of the city of Pitesti, from what I read the most popular local objective. We covered 3 km from the start.

Pitesti Zoo is located in Trivale Forest and occupies 12 hectares. It hosts about 1900 animals. I fondly remember an earlier visit to Pitesti Zoo, which I enjoyed, even though there was much evidence that it needed a facelift. But children always know how to enjoy the presence of animals.

2. Trivale Monastery

We partially backtracked to the T-intersection and continued on towards the Trivale neighborhood. On the right we pass by a big restaurant Cornul Vanatoului, where I ate a couple of times, but despite its superb location in the forest, with a generous courtyard, last impressions do not convince me to recommend it. We leave the road to make a turn, at which point we continue straight ahead on a wide pedestrianized road, with a bike path, benches set up on the side, which winds through the woods to the hammer-hammer sound of hammers all the way to Trivale Monastery. 2 km from the Zoo.

Holy Trinity Monastery Trivale is declared a historical monument. It was built in the 17th - 19th centuries. The present ensemble was built between 1672 and 1688 by Varlaam, the metropolitan of the Romanian Lands, on the place where there were two other places of worship.

We climbed a few stairs up to the courtyard, under the bell tower and appreciated the quietness of this place. The bell tower, which thus plays the role of a gateway, appeared in the sec. XX.

3. Trivale Park

From here I was planning to go back to the center of town and I chose a beautiful route that crosses Trivale Park.

In the park, in the middle of the forest, there are alleyways, which are a pleasure to walk along. I was glad to see that out of love for them, birds enjoy the many wooden houses built in the trees. An ice rink was getting ready to welcome its dancers on the ice. The main direction, the widest alley continues from the exit of the park with Trivale St., on which I posed the Children's Palace.

From here I found a narrow alley in the staircase, on an ascending slope, not on Google Maps, which I followed and which took me to Teilor Street.

4. Argeș County Museum

I then walked long and well along this street, downhill, until Bd. Eroilor, where shortly after turning left, I identified the following sights concentrated in a single building. 2 kilometers from the monastery.

In the building Argeș County Museum, with entrance, I think temporary, from bd. Eroilor, you can find the modern Planetarium, the Lapidarium, the History Section, the Biology Section, the Natural Sciences Section, the Argesean Sports Museum, the Numismatic Exhibition and the Flowers of Mine Exhibition. The museum building is an old one from the end of the sec. XIX. Interesting to visit.

5. Park 1907

At the end of the building that houses these objectives, in front of it is actually a small park, Park or Public Garden 1907where there is a bronze statue of Ion C. Bratianu.

We enter the central area, cross bd. Republicii, very busy, and we see the Cercului Militar building, the old communist Muntenia hotel, and at the end of Bd. Eroilor, we reach a new pedestrian area of the city.

6. Central Park

We continued right, through Central Park past a sinusoidal artificial lake with an artesian fountain and wider and crowded alleys or smaller and secluded alleys near the lake and the fountain, up to Vasile Milea Square, where you can find Prefecture yes Town Hall.

Many pigeons know that they will be well fed on the wide, flat, flat food on the ground Monument to the Heroes of the 1989 Revolution, and St. George's Church.

In the square we changed direction 90 degrees to the left towards and through St. Friday Passageunder bd. I. C. Bratianu. I found the passage quite clean, lighted and equipped with functional moving walkways.

7. The swimming pool

At the other end of the overpass is Grivitei str. From here I followed a Z to the right, on Brancoveanu and then on Raurilor, passed under the railroad and arrived at the Ștrand Park. 1,5 km from the museum.

The swimming pool park is located on the banks of the Arges river and has a lake in the middle, in fact some very interesting oval-shaped canals, which can be admired from a covered bridge.

We exited through another gate of the park, located further north. We passed Olympic Basin.

8. Memorial Prison Pitesti

On the route Costache Negri, Gheorghe Sincai, Cal. Bascovului, Eremia Grigorescu, Trandafirilor, Negru Voda we arrived after another 2,5 km at Memorial Prison Pitestiwhich I really wanted to visit, but it was closed due to the pandemic. Unfortunately.

The Pitesti Penitentiary, in its present form, was built between the two world wars and functioned as such until 1977. It could hold 800 prisoners in almost 100 cells, and many political prisoners were imprisoned here.

Via Negru Voda and Mircea Eliade we reached the place where we parked the car after another 2 km.

Read more in the dedicated article https://mytravel.express/obiective-mte/memorialul-inchisoarea-pitesti-arges/.