The 134-kilometer-long pass in the valley, which separates the Southern Carpathians and the Serbian Mountains,called Porțile de Fier (Romanian), or Vaskapu (Hungarian) or Ђердапска клисура / Đerdapska klisura (in Serbian). This is one of the most romantic landscapes in Europe. It is famous for the plaque of Trajan commemorating the military road construction of the Roman Empire. This is the border between Serbia and Romania, and here you can find the gigantic portrait of Decebal, King of the Dacians.
It
looks like an old statue, and really iconic artwork of this place,
but not as old as you may think. The statue is so large: 40 metres
high and 25 metres wide, with its dimensions the largest carving in
stone in Europe. The dreamer of this statue was Iosif
Constantin Drăgan, he sponsored the works
that took place between 1994 and 2004. Mountaineers were carving the
portrait. In the first period they shaped the
rough stone with dinamites! Now it looks great and iconis as the
presidents’ portrait in the USA and mystical as the statues of
Isildur and Anárion,
standing upon either side of the River Anduin at the northern
entrance to Nen Hithoel in the epic Lord of the Rings.
Epic in reality, no? What do you think?
Comments
Post a Comment