The Dacian settlement at Feţele Albe (White Faces) was investigated between 1965 and 1972, but the site had already been recorded in writings since the early 19th century. The settlement stretches on 20-30 anthropic terraces located on the middle of the coast of the, near a flat point at about 800 m from the confluence of the Valea Alba River (White Valley) with the Godean Valley.
Somehow appearing as the most “mysterious” fortress in the Șureanu Mountains, the Dacian fortress from Feţele Albe (White Faces) is also the closest to the capital of the Dacian Kingdom. As it is stated archaeologically (although the research is extremely far from being a well-argued reference in published works), this place it would have been one of the most elitist district of Sarmizegetusa Regia. A fabulous air is felt prior to the entrance of the fortress area and the steps are slowly led to the few areas with standing walls.
The white to slightly yellowish oolitic-fossiliferous stone of the blocks appears fresh in some parts of the walls, as if it had been intertwined recently by facing; in other places, the visual appearance has been heavily modified, by the formation on the surface of a protective crust, covering with moss or leaching of calcite or iron-containing material.
