"Pietros" means "stony, rocky" in Romanian. The city of Petroșani was founded in the 17th century (around 1640) … See more

Petroșani is located in the Jiu Valley, which is the entrance to the Retezat National Park and provides access to the Vâlcan, Parâng, and Retezat mountains. The city administers four villages: Dâlja Mare (Nagydilzsa), Dâlja Mică (Kisdil… See more

• Sfinții Arhangeli Church ("Holy Archangels Church"), built in the 18th century.
• The "Ion G. Duca" school, built in 1935
• The Hungarian school, built in 1873 by Germans and inhabited by a group of 50 Catholic nu… See more

The following social events take place in Petroșani:
• the Dramatic Theater offers a wide variety of performance every week
• the annual international folklore festival… See more

In 1850, Petroșani was a small village, the vast majority of its 581 inhabitants being Romanian. According to the 1910 census, from 12,193 inhabitants 7,748 (63.54%) were Hungarian, 3,250 Romanian (26.65%) and 831 (6.… See more