Anthropic tourism resources of Târgu Jiu
The Municipality of Tãrgu-Jiu takes its name from The Jiu River that crosses it, initially known as the weekly fair held on the banks of The Jiu River, a fair that is held even today on Thursdays. It is first mentioned as the Jiu Fair 600 years ago and as a city 400 years ago. The Public Garden was established in 1856, in the field, on the left bank of The Jiu River.
CBThe Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși from Tãrgu-Jiu, known as The Monumental Ensemble of Tãrgu-Jiu is a tribute to the fallen heroes of The World War I, designed and built by Constantin Brâncuși. His only outdoor monumental components- The Table of Silence, The Kissing Gate and The Endless Column- are arranged on the same axis, oriented from west to east, with a total length of 1,275 m./su_animate]
TSThe Table of Silence, worked in limestone, is the table where the combatants were sitting down before a confrontation in the battle. Time is represented by 12 hourglasses seats that count it. Everything goes quiet,
KGThe Kissing gate, built of travertine, looks like a triumphal arch symbolizing the triumph of life over death or the pass to another life. The symbol of the kiss carved on the two pillars could be perceived as the inward eye. Brâncuși was helped in the execution of this work by two stone carvers: Ion Alexandrescu from Bucharest and Golea from Dobriţa. The entire work is arranged on a steel axe embedded in a concrete foundation with a side of 5 m.
ECThe Endless Column represents the ascension to the sky. Inaugurated on 27 October 1938, the column has a height of 29.35 meters and is composed of 16 octahedral modules and two half-modules at the upper and the lower parts. Brâncuși named the modules beads.
The sculpture is a specific stylization of funerary columns of southern Romania. Its original name was The Column of Endless Gratitude and was dedicated to Romanian soldiers who died in World War I, in 1916, in the battles on the Jiu bank.
Brâncuși himself called it “a draft of the column which, if enlarged, could touch the sky.”
The Column was brassed on the site by brass wire spray application. This technology has been used for the first time in Romania and was specially brought from Switzerland. The total weight of the column (core + “beads”) is 29,173 kilograms.
PPThe Church of Peter and Paul Saints is situated on the Heroes’ Path and was integrated in Brancusi’s creation connecting the elements of the sculptural ensemble. Built on the site of another church dating back to 1777, the building was reconstructed between 1927 and 1938 and inaugurated at the same time with Brâncuși’s ensemble on November 7, 1937. The painting of Byzantine style was executed in fresco by the painter Iosif Keber.
CPThe Communal Palace (today The Prefecture) was built in 1898. The exterior and the interior decoration in Moorish style make it unique. In 1904, phones were provided and in 1905, a clock was mounted in the tower.
SVChurch of Saints Voivodes, located in Victoria Square, in front of the Communal Palace, was founded by merchants Dobre Sîrbu and Radu Cupetu whose portraits can be seen in the narthex. The construction was done between 1748 and 1764, the building was known as The Merchants’ Church, The Royal Church and even The Church from Jiu. The church is cross-shaped. The building has undergone several interventions over times that have not altered the original form.
TV“Tudor Vladimirescu” National High School, monumental building – was built between 1896 and 1898. Opposite, there is The Statue of Tudor Vladimirescu, the leader of the Revolution of 1821 and of The Pandours that was held on the site where Tudor Vladimirescu and The Pandours met before leaving for Padeş.
ET The Memorial House of Ecaterina Teodoroiu dates back to 1884. In this house Cătălina– the national heroine was born. She voluntarily participated in the battles of World War I. She died heroically in front of her platoon as a second lieutenant in the fights from Mărăşeşti, in August 1917.
GMGorj County Museum was founded in 1894 through the efforts of Alexandru Ştefulescu. The building was renovated in 2007-2008. Materials used in Palaeolithic, Neolithic, The Bronze Age, The Dacian period, The Dacian and Roman period, documents from the first state formations, feudalism and the modern period are here exposed.
AMThe Art Museum was established in 1984 and since 1993 has its headquarters in the Central Park of the city. The museum offers to visitors Romanian old icons of a special artistic value, studies and paintings by Vasile Blendea and Iosif Keber, pastels, exhibits from the XVIIth century belonging to Flemish and Italian schools, paintings of Alexandru Ciucurencu, Corneliu Baba and many other classical and contemporary artists.
