Located in the Carpathian arc, the Buzău Land UNESCO Global Geopark makes around 40 million years of geological development visible. Its natural formations include mud volcanoes, trovanți and the Colți Geological Reserve.
The desire to rent a holiday apartment in Buzău can be combined with this destination.
Nature and geology
The mud volcanoes extend across the territory of the municipalities of Berca and Scorțoasa. The mud volcanoes form a landscape of badlands and volcanic cones and bring cold black mud to the surface. Access to the Vulcanii Noroioși is via DN 10 from Buzău to Brașov as far as Sătuc in the municipality of Berca, and from there a further 20 kilometres.
The Bozioru trovanți are sand deposits and layers of cemented sandstone in the Bălănesei Valley, about one kilometre from the village of Ulmet. From the car park near the Bozioru trovanți, visitors walk approximately 500 metres and then follow a stepped path through an alder grove to the “Babele de la Ulmet”. The Muzeul Formelor in Bozioru opened in 2018 and uses augmented reality to explain the formation of the trovanți to visitors.
The Colți Geological Reserve covers 2.52 hectares. Colți is the only place in Romania where organised amber mining was carried out.
Culture and history
The Muzeul de Arheologie, Istorie și Artă Buzău is located in the former girls’ school building, which is classified as a historic monument. The permanent exhibitions opened in 1980–1981 and were subsequently updated several times, including in 1986, 1990, 1999–2001, 2004 and 2015–2017.
The Biserica Dintr-o Piatră in Năeni was built entirely from white Năeni limestone; the iconostasis, altar, surrounding walls and interior fittings are also carved from stone. The church can be visited on Saturdays, Sundays and religious holidays. The prehistoric caves of Năeni are more than 4,000 years old.
A proposed tourist route through the Nișcov Valley runs along county road 100H through Vernești, Nișcov, Cârlomănești, Mierea, Grăjdana, Izvoranu, Leiculești, Haleș and Tisău and can end at the “Fântâna lui Mihai Viteazul” monument in Măgura. The Casa Memorială “Vasile Voiculescu” in Pârscov reconstructs the writer’s family environment and presents aspects of his private and professional life in a thematically structured exhibition.
The regional route “Drumul pietrei și al cramelor din județul Buzău” combines history, archaeology, religion and local traditions with viticulture and winemaking to create an integrated visitor experience. The Brâncovenesc Ensemble in Râmnicu Sărat, with its rich stone decoration, is one of the defining monuments of the Brâncovenesc architectural style.
The building complex of Rătești Monastery comprises two side wings and a central building with the chapel “Sfântul Epifanie, arhiepiscopul Ciprului”.
Collections and exhibitions
The Măgura Sculpture Camp comprises 256 groups of sculptures and statues by 153 Romanian sculptors. It is located in clearings near Ciolanu Monastery in the territory of the municipality of Tisău.
The telephone collection of the Muzeul Județean Buzău comprises more than 300 Romanian and foreign telephone sets and presents the history of the telephone chronologically. It includes an Ericsson telephone set from 1898.
The Bucur and Margareta Chiriac Collection presents contemporary Romanian art together with folk art objects, including ceramics, wooden cutlery, masks, decorated eggs and carved chairs. The exhibition on the collection of Dumitru Dan documents a round-the-world journey begun on 1 April 1910 by Dumitru Dan and three other companions.
The “Timpul Omului” collection in Mânzălești is an ethnographic collection that symbolically interprets local life through stone, clay and salt. The visitable “Casa Timpului” collection in Valea Salciei is housed in a farmhouse and comprises three rooms: a living room, an old bedroom and a room with traditional tools.
The Muzeul Chihlimbarului Colți contains amber nuggets, jewellery, tools for extracting and processing amber, mineral specimens and palaeofaunal exhibits.
Getting around
There are clubs and specialised instructors for the rafting and kayaking route; including the briefing, the trip can take 3 to 4 hours. The moderately difficult rafting and kayaking route on the Buzău River begins at the Nehoiașu hydroelectric plant near the confluence of the Bâsca and Buzău, heads towards Nehoiu and reaches the Valea Lupului area in the town of Pătârlagele. It includes both fast-flowing and calm sections.
More local pages:Berca, Sarata-Monteoru, Chiojdu, Buzău, C. A. Rosetti, Fântânele, Poşta Câlnău, Nehoiu, Măgura, Plaiu Nucului, Orașul Pătârlagele, Balta Alba, Comuna Tisău, Odaile, Comuna Valea Râmnicului, Valea Sălciilor, Ciuta, Mierea, Cislău, Lopătari, Cozieni.
