Pensiunea Craiul - accommodation in Arieseni

Cascada Pisoaia

On a rocky landscape reserve threshold of Paleozoic age crystalline limestone, at app. 2.5 km from the Guesthouse "Craiul" in common otter, Nemes village, on the Aries Mic, at the confluence with the river Slatina near the county road DJ 762. Especially impressed by its depth of approximately 18 m. Landscape Reserve "Pisoaia Falls" is located on a rocky limestone threshold, surrounded by a forest of beech and coniferous trees isolated. Legend has it that this foamy water cascading girls will tell you is weird, if the man they loved squirting water will become husband until the end, if not, the bride will remain one forever.

Hill snails

Reserve is situated in Vidra commune - a village on the left valley Nemes-Aries Mic. A reef shells of snails that lived millions of years ago in these places, washed by the warm waters of the Great Tethis. Encrusted shells have been preserved to this day in rock.

Snails Hill is a nature reserve with a rich paleontological point fosilier with gastropods, representative for the period senonianului, floor of the upper Cretaceous - formed in a large rocky bottom.

Snails Hill is geologically unique, with a length of 65-70 million years, representing an alternation of conglomerates, sandstones and marls with inlaid where 35 species of molluscs. Dominant species is Acteonella gigantea. Protected area is 0.6 ha.

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