Barajul Vidraru

Located on the Arges River, supported on the slopes and mountains Pleasa Vidraru about 40 km from Curtea de Arges, Vidraru Dam is considered

specialists to engineering a true gem. It was built with great sacrifice human, between 1961 and 1966. For its realization were drilled

underground galleries of 42 km in length, were excavated approximately 1.768 million cubic meters of rock (of which one million underground), 930,000 were cast

cubic meters of concrete were installed 6300 tons of electromechanical equipment. Vidraru Lake, with 465 million cubic meters of water,

has a length of 10.3 km and a maximum width of 2.2 km (in the Wolf Valley - Calugarita), a total area of 870 hectares and

maximum depth of 155 meters. Power station is situated underground in massive Cetatuia to 104 m deep and can provide an annual production

Energy 400 GWh.

When the inauguration, was the fifth Vidraru Dam in Europe and ninth in the world. As experts say, is a double curved dam,

with a height of 166.6 meters and a length of 307 meters crown. At night, the outline is electricity, so you can see the plane.

Access to dam is on the eastern shore of the lake, the road that climbs to Balea.From the end of the dam, turn left can go towards depression

Sweep.   Tourists can climb the platform to admire the beauty of the Belvedere neighborhood.

Also, Pleasa mountain is the statue of Prometheus by lightning in his hand as a symbol of electricity, made by sculptor Constantin Popovici.

A few hundred meters of the dam was "Argeseana House" and landing where it organizes recreational boat racing. For lovers

extreme sports, the barrage was arranged highest launch pad for bungee jumping.

People in the area, which worked to build huge mountain remember that conditions were difficult and there were many who died. Nobody knows

really count. In some documents talking about 80 workers died in accidents in the other 20. The fact is that after more than 40 years

Vidraru Dam attracts thousands of tourists, even foreigners, who remain baffled by this monument of the art engineering.