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Along the Transfagarasan, at 40 kilometers from Curtea de Arges, between Pleasa and Vidraru slopes, is located Vidraru Lake and Dam - built between 1960 to 1966, for the production of electricity, irrigation and flood prevention, being now an excellent place also for recreation, tourism and sports, eg Bungee jumping extreme sport.
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We know today that the name Fagaras Mountains derives from Hungarian linguists although opinions are divided, on the one hand there is the word "fogor" - partridge, and on the other hand, more joke more seriously, is under discussion the expression "fa-garas', ie money from wood, which has its origin in the tradition of the eighteenth century when workers received their labor in exchange for some tickets, evidence of wood, which they then exchanged for cash.
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In the list of the oldest medieval Romanian monuments enroll also cave churches in the monastic complex from șinca Veche, settlement located at 45 km from Brasov, 22 km from Fagaras and 3 km from the șinca village, known place thanks to historian and philologis Romanian Gheorghe șincai, family which has its roots here.
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