Iron Gates

• The Iron Gates are a series of Gorges stretching 83 miles (134km) on the River Danube, forming the Frontier between Roumania and Serbia.
• They are not to be confused with the Iron Gate of Transylvania, which is a mountain Pass in Roumania.

Description

• The Iron Gates refers particularly to the last Gorge which was impassable.
• The Romans built a Canal alongside to bypass the Gorge.

The Great Kazan.

• This is the narrowest Gorge at 492 ft (150m) across and 174ft (53m) deep.
• It was here that Trajan built a bridge between 103-105 CE for the invasion of Dacia.

The Iron Gates Gorge, Romania: