The Zoological Garden is located in Trivale Park. The park stretches over 7,000 hectares, and was set up in 1990. In 1939 Trivale Forest was declared a monument of nature. The land ranges from flat to steep, as the altitude ranges between 290 m (Argeş rivermeadow) and 430 m in Plaiul Foii. The scarcity of thermopile oak forests, the diversity of vegetation, the importance of the phytogeography gives to "Trivale Forest" reservation a major significance. Animals from local and foreign fauna. Zoo covers an area of 12 hectares and has more than 130 animals and birds from Africa, Australia, Siberia, Tibet, India and Romania.