Râmeț (; ) is a commune located in

Alba County Alba County () is a county (județ) of Romania located in the historic region of Transylvania. Its capital is Alba Iulia, a city with a population of 63,536. Name "Alba", meaning "white" in Latin and Romanian, is derived from the name of the ...

Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It is composed of thirteen villages: Boțani, Brădești (''Fenyősremete''), Cheia (''Remeteiszoros''), Cotorăști, Florești, Olteni (''Szabaderdő''), Râmeț, Valea Făgetului, Valea Inzelului, Valea Mănăstirii (''Remetekolostor''), Valea Poienii, Valea Uzei, and Vlădești.

Geography

The commune is situated in the

Trascău Mountains The Trascău Mountains () are located in the Apuseni mountain range of the Western Romanian Carpathians, in Romania. The Trascău Mountains are crossed by the picturesque Arieș River valley. The highest elevation in the massif is Dâmbău Peak, ...

, at a mean altitude of , on the banks of the rivers Gârbova and

Geoagiu Geoagiu (, ) is a town in Hunedoara County, in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It administers ten villages: Aurel Vlaicu (until 1925 ''Binținți''; ''Bencenc''), Băcâia (''Bakonya''), Bozeș (''Bózes''), Cigmău (''Csigmó''), ...

. It is located in the northern part of Alba County, northwest of

Teiuș Teiuș (, ; ) is a town in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, with a population of 6,308 inhabitants as of 2021. The town, declared as such in 1994, administers four villages: Beldiu (''Marosbéld''), Căpud (''Magyarkapud''), Coșlariu Nou ('' ...

, west of

Aiud Aiud (; , , Hungarian pronunciation: ; ) is a city located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. The city's population is 21,307 (2021). It has the status of municipiu. The city derives its name ultimately from Saint Giles (Aegidius), to whom t ...

, and north of the county seat,

Alba Iulia Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș (river), Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a ...

. Râmeț is crossed by

county road A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the county highway department. Route numbering can ...

DJ1071, which branches off national road

DN1 DN1 () is an important national road in Romania which links Bucharest with the northwestern part of the country and the border with Hungary via Borș. The main cities linked by DN1 are Bucharest, Ploiești, Brașov, Sibiu, Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoc ...

in Aiud and merges into in

Bucium The ''bucium'' (, also called ''trâmbiţă'' or ''tulnic'') is a type of alphorn from Romania and Moldova. The word is derived from Latin '' bucinum'', originally meaning "curved horn", an instrument used by the Romans. The word is a cogna ...

. The roads DJ750C and DC75 connect Râmeț to Teiuș.

Tourist attractions

* The

Romanian Orthodox The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; , ), or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. S ...

, with the old church dating to the 14th century * Nature reserve "Cheile Râmeților" (40 ha) * Nature reserve "Cheile Pravului" (3 ha), in Cheia * Nature reserve "Cheile Piatra Bălții" (2 ha), in Cheia * Nature reserve "Cheile Mănăstirii" (15 ha), in Valea Mănăstirii * Nature reserve "Vânătările Ponorului", near the Bedeleu peak in the Trascău Mountains

Demographics

At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 426, of which 88.73% were Romanians. As of 2025, there have been no births registered since then in Râmeț.

References

External links

* Communes in Alba County Localities in Transylvania {{Alba-geo-stub