ALBOTA Tourist Complex
Albota, known as an edge of the Făgăraş massif, is famous in the country and abroad as the most appreciated Romanian trout farm, because it is not just a place where fish is grown and bought. It is much more than that — a whole four star resort. Located at the foot of the mountains, in a natural fairytale setting, this trout farm offers visitors different opportunities to spend their free time. You can walk among the trout pools, you can admire the sturgeons (these “monsters” occupy one of the pools), you can relax in one of the few swings or you can even fish.
ALBOTA Tourist Complex has 40 rooms arranged in a rustic-modern style, equipped with private bathroom, satellite TV, telephone, central heating. To go to the Albota trout farm you don’t have to be a lover of fish. It is enough to want to reach a paradise of goodies from Transylvania, both the traditional Romanian and Saxon ones. For those who are vegetarians, the Albota trout farm is the ideal place where they can taste one hundred percent organic dishes and enjoy an oasis of peace and fresh air, admiring the Făgăraş mountains. The village of Arpaşu de Sus is a quiet Sibiu village, where people still dress in traditional costumes to go to work on Sunday, but where the main tourist attraction is precisely this trout farm. Basically, from DN1, you drive another ten kilometers and you reach the Albota trout farm.
From the village to the trout farm, the road made and rebuilt by the trout owner puts the patience of the tourists on fire, who can’t wait to reach their destination. Wooden signs, beautifully written, invite you to be calm and open your appetite for the house specialty, a unique dish that is only cooked at Albota: trout fillets in cornflakes, with a light, refreshing, parsley sauce, with potatoes over which fresh greens are lightly sprinkled from their own garden. Next to the trout, a slice of lemon is carefully placed on a salad, made for an Albota dish, which can be served there or at the Hermania Restaurant in the center of Sibiu, locally, belonging to the same owner. As is well known, trout meat has few calories and fat and many vitamins and minerals.
By bicycle, on the ATV, on foot, but also with any kind of car, anyone can reach Albota. For the nostalgic and romantic ones, we recommend the cart.
Albota trout farm has an annual production of 40 tons of trout in the 13 basins. Here, trout reach a weight of a quarter of a kilogram in a maximum of two years. Fântânel and Rainbow are the two types of trout raised in Albota. Fântânel is darker in color unlike Rainbow, which has a dotted back with a red stripe. For tourists who do not come to fish here, the most interesting is the trout feeding ritual, daily, before sunset.
80% of what is eaten at Albota is eco and organic. Almost all food is a product of its own. It came here after a wise investment in 2,000 hectares of agricultural land, in four communes in Sibiu County, all used for production.
The Pastravaria Albota complex is one of the most known and appreciated tourist destinations in Romania, both for the facilities it offers and for the special food at the restaurant.