Rapa Rosie

Rapa Rosie is an included location, a herbal monument of national hobby in Alba County, Romania. It is a geological and botanical reserve, located in the acute southwest of the Seca?elor Plateau on the right bank of the Secasul Mare, about 4 kilometres north of Sebes. With a size of approximately 24 hectares, the reserve is assessed as IUCN Category III.

Erosion and runoff has given it a prominent, sharp rocky look within the mountainside. Rapa Rosie itself measures about 10 hectares in size. Rapa Rosie stretches over a length of 800 metres. Its height measures among 50 to 125 metres. A large wall, nearly vertical, gives the impact of a ruined ancestral monument. Tiered columns and pyramids, separated by using ravines, shape a badlands microrelief. The first documents of a Cotofeni lifestyle locate at Rapa Rosie become made by using Fr. W. Schuster in 1865. It become the primary archaeological exploration made by way of him which discovered remnants of big and small pottery that had ornamentation, which additionally attested to the Cotofeni lifestyle.