Discover Romania’s Highest Road – TRANSALPINA – with a 4K Virtual Tour and Techno Mix!

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This video features a 4k virtual tour TRANSALPINA, Romania`s highest road, starting from Urdele Pass at 2155 m and finishing near Obarsia Lotrului. Closed Captions [CC] which include historical facts and descriptions are available in all languages.

CHAPTERS :

00:00 – Urdele Pass
01:46 – Urdele Summit
07:09 – Long hill climb
12:24 – Hitching a ride for the next 2km and 100m elevation
12:32 – Fast sector
17:46 – Fastest sector
20:42 – Scenic sector
23:40 – Serpentines
29:03 – Last sector

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INFO :

The Transalpina or DN67C is a 148 km national road located in the Parâng Mountains group, Southern Carpathians of Romania, is one of the highest roads of the Carpathian Mountains. It connects Novaci, south of Parâng Mountains, to Sebeș in the north. It is the highest road in Romania, having the highest point in Urdele Pass (at 2,145 m). Transalpina traverses four counties – Gorj, Vâlcea, Sibiu, Alba – crossing the Parâng Mountains from south to north. The highest altitude is reached on a segment of about 20 km (12 mi), in Vâlcea County, passing a short distance from the peaks of Dengheru (2,084 m), Păpușa (2,136 m), Urdele (2,228 m), Iezer (2,157 m), and Muntinu (2,062 m).

Transalpina is a Latin name, used in old Latin texts of Țara Românească, meaning “the country beyond the mountains”.

Being a high altitude mountain road it is closed during the winter, it stays open from mid May to mid October (depending on the weather) and only during daytime (08:00–20:00).

The beginnings of this road are unclear, some sources claim that it was first built by the Roman legions during the wars with the Dacians, which is why it is listed on the history maps as the “Roman strategic corridor IV”.

A local legend says that at the end of the 18th century, beginning of 19th century, each family participated in the construction of a part of this road, depending on physical and financial possibilities.

According to other sources the road was rebuilt and paved by the Germans during World War I, for military reasons, but it was very little used.

What is certain is that this route, known as Poteca Dracului (Devil’s Path), was originally a mountain path, used by shepherds from the Mărginimea Sibiului to cross the mountains with sheep herds in Țara Românească (Wallachia).

In his work, Istoria Olteniei supt austriaci (1718–1739), Constantin C. Giurescu shows that as early as 1731 the Austrian authorities proposed the construction of a Transcarpathian road on the path of the old transhumance route linking Transylvania with Oltenia.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transalpina_(DN67C)

Techno mix. Shot in 4k.