Secular oak - Round forest

Known as the secular oak, the old tree stands on the plateau near the Round Forest, looking down on the town from the hill. In 2010, it was listed in the Tree of the Year competition and ranked 6th out of 87 trees nominated nationwide. Planted in 1849 in memory of the victory over Hungarian revolutionary troops, the tree is about 7 metres tall with a damaged bark and is a symbol of the passage of time and the will to survive. Not far from the lone oak, at the edge of Coșari forest, another attraction is the colony of bee eaters, a protected species of bird that can be seen both in flight and near nests dug into the nearby sandy bank.