Mioveni

Is a town in Arges county, Romania near the city ofPitesti. It was first mentioned in a written Record in 1485. It developed much in the 1970s after the construction of the Automobile Dacia manufacturing plant. Our little town is at almost 18 kilometres' distance ofPitesti, the residence of the county. The 5 districts of ourtown are: Mioveni, Colibasi, Racovita, Faget andClucereasa, in fact the names of the small villages whichhave formed the actual town.

The Culture House

View of Mioveni

Mioveni is one of the 7th towns of Arges county. It is known as the town of the Romanian car because the first Romanian car was manufactured here, taking the old name of the land: Dacia

The Culture House

The Youth Park

There are a lot of buildings in our small town:five schools, two high schools, a Town Hall, acathedral, five churches, a Culture House, a

museum, ahospital, two hotels, a few restaurants, twosupermarkets and a lot of shops. The citizens from the center live in blocks of flatswith four storeys and those in the other districts

havegot houses built in a style characteristic to our hill

area.

The Culture House

The Town Hall

The Town Hall

The cathedral “Sf. Petru and Pavel”

The cathedral “Sf. Petru and Pavel”

The cathedral “Sf. Petru and Pavel”

The Stadium Dacia Mioveni

The car factory has begun a Romanian-French cooperation after December 1989 and now it is called Dacia-Renault Car Factory. It is in fact the place where my pupils' parents work.

Dacia – Renault Car Factory

Dacia – Renault Car Factory

The Heros Statue

“Iulia Zamfirescu” HighSchool

“George Toparceanu” School