The Trovants Museum is a fantastic place worth visiting in our county. Râmnicu Vâlcea hides many unusual places, waiting to be discovered by explorers eager to enter our lands. This place can leave you with a strange feeling, as the landscapes you meet seem detached from another world. The Trovants Museum is located in Costești commune from Vâlcea county, in the commune village, near DN67, the road that connects Râmnicu Vâlcea with Târgu Jiu.
The Kogayon Association administers the Trovants Museum Nature Reserve by Government Decision No. 1581/2005. The president of this non-governmental organization, Mr. Florin Stoican, delimited the nature reserve to forbid the access of cars in the area with a barrier. He also set up a panel with information about the reservation to know more about this place.
Trovants Museum – a brief history of this unique place
The Trovants Museum is a special open-air place, open to all geology and archeology enthusiasts. Inside this museum, you will find the finds. But what are these trovants?
Trovants, known as “growing stones,” “dorobanti,” “slabs,” “living stones,” are relief microforms characteristic of sand accumulations and sandstone layers rich in calcium carbonate. The finds were discovered in 1994 by a group of archaeologists. According to some sources, the museum’s site today was occupied by a delta, and the current quarry was formed by the successive deposition of material transported from the mainland. 10-15 million years ago, much of Oltenia was covered by the Getic Lake. The term “trovant” was first used by Gheorghe Murgoci in his work “The Tertiary of Oltenia, 1907”. The troubadours also have some rather bizarre forms because there was an uneven deposition of cement in the sand mass. According to specialists, these stones located inside the Museum of Trovants were formed in the bed of a river.
The concretions found in the Trovants Museum also impress with their size, finding trovants from two to three cm, up to about five meters. In Romania, we can see these stones with a bizarre, spherical, or ellipsoidal shape on Feleacului Hill, in Cluj County, on the territory of Casolt village, in Sibiu, in the Buzău mountains, as well as in Hășdat, in Hunedoara County. Some people believe that these finds reach a size of up to five meters because with each rain, the stones grow by a few millimeters. However, this increase is because the spheres have a high content of mineral salts, and in humid conditions, they cause the sand to swell.
The Trovants Museum is a place detached from another planet, thanks to these unusual stones. Trovers are recognized by their strange shape, color, or consistency. We can find these stones worldwide, the most impressive being Theodore Roosevelt National Park, in North Dakota, United States of America. The ones here are red due to the iron they have in their composition. We can also discover these sandstone concretions in the Fayum Depression, Egypt (up to 9 meters), South Africa, China, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Russia, Kazakhstan, Spain, France, or the Czech Republic.
Accommodation at hotel Simfonia, Râmnicu Vâlcea
Hotel Simfonia is the only place in the city from where the view to the Făgăraș mountains opens wide, of overwhelming beauty. Everything is a symphony of ideas meant to delight the hearts of those it hosts. This 4-star boutique will make your stay a dream come true, and you will want to extend your holiday as much as possible. The hotel is perfect for those who want to relax and escape from the overcrowded cities, which do not provide the necessary peace, which we sometimes long for. Our staff will make you feel at home.
You can visit the Trovants Museum, just an hour’s drive from the Symphony Hotel. Day activities are available at our hotel. Suppose you are passionate about hiking or cycling, only 22 kilometers away. In that case, you will find Băile Govora, an extraordinary place in itself and from where you can start on numerous routes to the Monastery from wood or the Horezu Monastery. You can also choose to go to a wine tasting or relax fishing in the specially designed locations. Hotel Simfonia is the ideal place to spend some relaxing and fun days.
