Tg-Jiu

(Romania)

Attractions Populations History

- Beautiful - Population - First name of
places (1956 – 2011) the city
- Famous - Neighbors - The famous
business Constantin
Brancusi
 Attractions:
Beautiful Places:
The sculptural ensemble Constantin Brâncuși:

The gate of the kiss, which is located on the alley from the entrance of the city
park, is carved out of porous stone, extracted from the quarries in the
surroundings, being made of thick columns, which supports an arch with a
larger dimension than the columns.
Beautiful Places:
Constantin Brâncuși Memorial House:

He greatest Romanian sculptor, Constantin Brâncuși, was born in the

village of Hobița in the county of Gorj. There a memorial museum is set up
in a house on the land belonging to the sculptor, which is classified as a
historical monument.
Beautiful Places:

Transalpina:

The highest road in Romania (2,145 m at the highest point), makes the
connection between Novaci city, Gorj county and Sebeș city, Alba county,
but it crosses 4 counties altogether: Gorj, Vâlcea, Sibiu and Alba. The
highest point where the road crosses the Parang Mountains is on the
territory of Vâlcea county.
Beautiful Places:
Tismana Monastery:

Also in Gorj County is one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries in our

country. The Tismana Monastery is over 600 years old. The monastery was
destroyed in a fire in 1542 and is inhabited.
Famous business:
Populations:
Populations:

The city of Târgu-Jiu has a population of 98267 inhabitants, of which:

91 394 Romanians, 2159 Gypsies, 158 Hungarians, 52 Germans. On the
territory of Tg-Jiu municipality, a number of 28 943 households are
organized, of which 27 527 in the city of Tg-Jiu. The main attraction of the
city is undoubtedly the sculptural complex made by the great Brancusi
between 1937-1938: the Table of Silence, the Gate of Kiss and the Column of
the Infinite. The three masterpieces, located outdoors, are dedicated to the
heroes of the First World War.
Neighbors:

Gorj County is located in the southwestern part of Romania, along the

Jiu River. It is limited by the counties: Dolj (southeast), Mehedinți
(southwest), Caraș-Severin (northwest), Hunedoara (north) and Vâlcea
(east).
 First name of the city:
(History)

The city of Târgu Jiu took its name from the vibrant Jiu river, which it
crosses from north to south and which, in time, moved its riverbed from
the Prejbei Hill to the west, forming three terraces that constitute today's
territory village.
 The famous Constantin Brancusi:
(History)

Constantin Brancusi was born in 1876 at Hobita, in Oltenia, southern

Romania. In 1883, he started working as a shepherd in the Carpathian
Mountains. Later on, he worked as a dyer, as an assistant in a grocery and
then as a servant at an inn. While working at the inn he was challenged to
make a violin as a bet. He succeeded so well, that the owner of the shop
decided to help him to enroll in the provincial Craiova School of Arts and
Crafts.
Constantin Brancusi:

The Kiss was his first truly original work and the most abstract
sculpture of the period representing two embracing figures locked
together in the same block of stone.
Constantin Brancusi:

"Sleeping Muse" seems Golden, but it really is bronze. Constantin

Brancusi did not hire helpers, did not trust anyone, casting and polishing –
all part of a single process, the case of the sculptor. A brilliant craftsman,
sensitive shaman, all my life listening to the language of wood, marble and
metal, he for several weeks, and sometimes months could hold for
polishing a sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi:

In 1923, Brancusi refined the figure of the bird to its most concentrated
form. The first Bird in Space was made from marble; bronze and plaster
versions followed in the years and decades to come.
 The End

Date:
Project realized by: 28.02.2k20
Guta Valentin Fabian