Olt County

Olt is the land of the gentle southern plain, crossed by the river that gives it its name. Here the earth spreads wide toward the Danube, with grain fields, settled villages and the Olt floodplain winding among poplars. It is a county of Brâncoveanu-era churches, with carved porches and refined frescoes, witnesses of an art founded around 1700.

Caracal, an old plains town, keeps Roman traces and a settled history. The seat is Slatina, a town on the bank of the Olt, a crossing point between the sub-Carpathian hills and the southern lowlands, with the quiet air of an old market town.