Arges

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Here we find the highest mountains in the country (Făgăraș mountains, Iezer mountains, Piatra Craiului mountains, Leaota mountains and Papușa mountains), as well as medium height mountains (Frunţii mountains and Chițu) as well as the Dragoslavele-Rucăr-Bran corridor.
The fast slopes, the circuses and the glaciers (18 glacial lakes), lend a special charm and brilliance to the alpine area.
Arges County is a leader in the field of car building industry, this is the main foreign investment in Arges County and one of the largest at national level.
Art and culture also enjoy a special attention in Arges county, where numerous museums and schools of popular and classical art, theaters, memorial and cultural houses, specialized associations operate. The Alexandru Davila Theater, the Art Galleries and the Creation Center in Pitesti, the memorial houses of George Toparceanu, Liviu Rebreanu and Dinu Lipatti, the culture house from Curtea de Arges, those from Campulung Muscel and Mioveni, the popular art museum from Domnesti commune and the Goliculticulture and Viticulture Museum.

Arges | Situated in the upper Arges basin, legendary river whose name it bears, the county is bordered to the north by the Fagarasilor ridge, with the peaks of Moldoveanu (2,543 m) and Negoiu (2,535 m), and to the south is the Romanian Plain, thus, from the north to the south, there are all three forms of relief: mountains, hills and plains, as well as two hydrographic basins: Arges Basin, in the mountainous and hill area and Vedea Basin, in the hill and plain area

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