Mehedinți County, Romania · Europe
Orşova is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Eşelniţa, 27km from Đerdap National Park.
Orşova is in Mehedinți County, Romania, with about 12,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Eşelniţa, about 4 km away.
Orșova (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈorʃova]; Hungarian: Orsova; German: Orschowa; Serbian: Оршава/Oršava; Turkish: Irşova) is a port city on the Danube river in southwestern Romania's Mehedinți County. It is one of four localities in the Banat historical region situated just above the Iron Gates where the Cerna RiverRead more
meets the Danube.
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Within an hour or so of Orşova: Danube Boilers (Cazanele Dunării) (17 km), Đerdap National Park (27 km), Đerdap Gorge (Iron Gates) (31 km), Lepenski Vir (35 km).
The nearest famous roads are Pasul Urdele (Transalpina) and Transalpina.
Orşova is in Mehedinți County, Romania, about 4 km from Eşelniţa.
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Rovinieta (road tax sticker) required for all national roads.
Full driving guide for Romania7 notable places within an hour's drive.
scenic viewpoint
Spectacular stretch of DN57 through the Iron Gates gorge, where the Danube squeezes between cliffs beneath the giant rock-carved face of Dacian king Decebalus: Romania's finest river-gorge drive.
17 km · about 20 min drive
national park
Serbia's largest national park along the Iron Gates gorge of the Danube, followed for 100 km by one of Europe's most scenic river roads.
27 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Europe's largest river gorge where the Danube cuts through the Carpathians, forming a dramatic border between Serbia and Romania.
31 km · about 35 min drive
ancient ruins
A Mesolithic settlement site on the Danube with sculpted sandstone figures, housed in a modern shelter with parking off the Đerdap road.
35 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
Three colossal natural stone arches (prerasts) carved by the Vratna river in eastern Serbia: the largest 45 m high. A short walk from Vratna Monastery reaches the first two gates through a herd-roamed valley.
38 km · about 45 min drive
waterfall
A moss-domed cascade where the Minișului river fans over a rounded travertine cushion in Cheile Nerei park.
46 km · about 55 min drive
castle
A ten-towered medieval fortress rising straight from the Danube where the river narrows into the Iron Gates; the Đerdap road once threaded directly through its walls.
57 km · about 65 min drive
2 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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