Baia de Criș
A commune in Zarand Country, on the Crișul Alb valley, with Țebea, Horea's Oak, Avram Iancu's grave and old wooden churches.
Baia de Criș is a commune in the north-west of Hunedoara County, in Zarand Country, made up of the villages of Baia de Criș (the seat), Baldovin, Căraci, Cărăstău, Lunca, Rișca, Rișculița, Țebea and Văleni. It was the seat of the Zarand prefecture, led by Ioan Buteanu during the 1848 Revolution.
In the village of Țebea stands the memorial complex with Avram Iancu's grave and Horea's Oak, a national place of pilgrimage. Baia de Criș has the Avram Iancu memorial house and an obelisk unveiled in 1972, a hundred years after his death, as well as a 15th-century Franciscan church.
The commune also keeps listed wooden churches at Căraci (18th century) and Lunca (17th century). The area is part of the Natura 2000 site “Metaliferi Mountains”.
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