Dinosaur Geopark Hateg

The Hateg Country Dinosaurs Geopark has been installed in 2004-2005 inside the fashionable region of the prehistoric Ha?eg Island, a huge offshore island in the Tethys Sea which existed all through the past due Cretaceous length, probable from the Cenomanian to the Maastrichtian ages. The park is part of the European Geoparks Network and it targets to sell the neighborhood values, to make sure the restoration of the monuments, to become aware of and file the neighborhood traditions and to train and inform the neighborhood communities on the way to maintain the local cultural identity.

The Ha?eg Country is a territory that hosts possibly the richest cultural patrimony of Romania. Here are determined a number of the oldest churches from north of Danube, the biggest concentration of medieval sites and monuments in Romania and a huge quantity of architectural monuments, all blanketed within the National Patrimony. The groups from the region are keepers of crucial local traditions enriched with elements of the overseas cultures that have interacted with the vicinity all through its history.