Pitești

Pitești is an industrial city of about 174 thousand residents¹ located by the Argeș River² in southern România. Its prison is notorious for its brainwashing experiments in the 20th century. The city is at one end of the popular mountain drive, the Transfăgărașan Road.

External references

city center of Pitești

Footnotes

1. 2012 calculation, world-gazetteer.com, accessed 1/21/2013.
2. The Argeș is a left bank tributary of the Dunarêa (Dunav, Danube) River.