Jidova Roman Castrum, Campulung

Great roman settlement here to visit in a sunny day. One of the very few best preserved in RO. Awesome tour by the guide there - strait to the point and without fancy words. Entrance fee for adults is 7 lei (1,5€). On the road sign it says it's open from Tuesday till Sunday, but when you enter it says it's open Wednesday-Sunday. (both intervals from 9:00 to 17:00) You take around 2 hours driving from Bucharest to here. Once you get there, no parking spots are inside, but you can leave your vehicle on the side of the road, on the gravel and make your way 50m down the alley towards the site.

Jidova camp is the most important and best preserved military construction of this kind in the entire Roman Dacia. The archeological research, restoration and consolidation work that took place here helps us to understand how the inhabitants lived 2000 years ago. Some of the Roman buildings, the commander's building, the officers' building, the grain warehouse are still visible. On the south side, a guard tower and partially the towers of the main gate have been rebuilt. In the small museum there are artifacts discovered during the excavations. What impressed me the most was the central heating system that the camp had.