Pădureni Land
An archaic ethno-folkloric zone on the Cerna Hunedoreană valley — 40 villages scattered across hilltops, an iron-making tradition and folk costume still worn at festivals.
Ținutul Pădurenilor (“the Foresters' Land”) stretches along the Cerna Hunedoreană valley, bordered by the Mureș corridor to the north, Țara Hațegului to the south and the Poiana Ruscă Mountains to the west — an “ethnographic island” of about 40 villages and hamlets, most perched on deforested hilltops between 600 and 1,100 m altitude. Ghelari, the area's largest village, gave its name to the region's iron-ore mining tradition, smelted until 1924 at the nearby Govăjdia furnace — Europe's first continuous-flow blast furnace.
Near Teliucu Inferior lies Lake Cinciș, a reservoir built on the Cerna in the early 1960s, with beaches and fishing. The area remains known for the traditional folk costume of the pădureni, still worn at festivals and events.
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