The Road that leads to the Land of the Gugulans
The Land of the Gugulani is the land of the Banat Mountain between the Bistrei Valley, the Timiş-Cerna corridor and the Almajului Valley, up to Bozovici. It is the place that took shape on Gugu Peak and that protected the sanctuary of Zamolxis, the god of the Dacians.
The name "gugulan" comes from the toponym "gugu", as a cone-shaped mountain peak.
The locals live following the old Dacian traditions even today. They have a history built around Gugu Peak, the belief in immortality from pre-Christianity and customs unchanged for centuries.
The name "gugulan" comes from the toponym "gugu", as a cone-shaped mountain peak.
The locals live following the old Dacian traditions even today. They have a history built around Gugu Peak, the belief in immortality from pre-Christianity and customs unchanged for centuries.
The legends of the place
Many researchers considered that the Banat Mountains would be the true navel of the Earth, from where the customs of the Dacian ancestors spread throughout the world, and the Gugulani Land would have been a great religious center of the Dacians in the past. It is said that the Kogaion mountain, the sacred and holy mountain of the Dacians, could be the Gugu mountain located in the place where the borders of Banat, Oltenia and Transylvania meet.