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Hunting in Crișana & Banat
The Apuseni mountains, the Banat forests, and the western lowlands — the region we call home, with Oradea, Arad, and Timișoara on its doorstep.
WHERE IT IS
Crișana & Banat on the map
- Crișana & Banat
THE REGION
Where we live and hunt
Romania Hunting is based in Oradea, and this is the country we know tree by tree. Crișana and the Banat run from the karst plateaus and beech forests of the Apuseni mountains down to the lowland oak woods and farmland along the western border — game-rich country that most foreign hunters fly straight over on their way to Transylvania.
The Apuseni hold red deer, boar, and roe; the Banat's mixed forests and gorges carry strong boar densities; and the managed reserves in the Banat foothills are where our mouflon programme runs. Being local means short drives: most of our western grounds are within two hours of the Oradea, Arad, or Timișoara airports.
HERITAGE
A short hunting history
The Banat was the Habsburg empire's model province, and its forests were managed with the same thoroughness as its farmland — organised game keeping, planted oak woods, and the hunting culture of the Austro-Hungarian court reached here early and stayed. Mouflon, introduced from Corsican and Sardinian stock in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thrived in the Banat foothill reserves and remain one of the region's signature trophies.
Crișana's Apuseni mountains stayed wilder — a karst massif of caves, gorges, and high beech forest where red deer and boar were never fenced or farmed. The Bears' Cave at Chișcău, discovered in 1975 with its floor full of cave-bear skeletons, is a reminder of how long these mountains have held big game.
Hunting today runs under the national framework (Legea 407/2006), with seasons and quotas set annually.
Photo: Alberto-g-rovi · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBEYOND THE HUNT
Must-sees in Crișana & Banat
Four stops worth adding around your hunting days — all close to our home base.
Photo: Paralelogram · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsOradea
Our hometown — one of Europe's finest Art Nouveau cities, and the Black Eagle Palace is its crown.
Photo: Pudelek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTimișoara
The Banat's capital and 2023 European Capital of Culture — baroque squares and café life.
Photo: Zátonyi Sándor · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBears' Cave
Chișcău's crystal cave, floor still scattered with Ice Age cave-bear skeletons.
Photo: Saturnian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBăile Felix
Turquoise thermal pools twenty minutes from Oradea — the classic rest day after a driven hunt.
GAME
What you can hunt here
The species our western programmes run for.
Hunt in Crișana & Banat
Browse the packages that run in this region and send us your dates — we reply as soon as possible.