The Basalt Columns of Racos are a monument of nature and impress trough their dimensions and shapes and are, geologically characterized by the lava leaks coming from a local eruption point (Chapel Hill), leaks that, in time, formed short columns at the basis and, at the middle section, long and thick columns above the basaltic dross.
The Geological Complex of Lower Racos is a protected natural area – the volcanic structure is located on the western art of the anticline – decline structure, in a trough fault in the area of Persani Mountains.  One can notice the most prominent sector, central and made of silicon of the structure (Peak Heghes), preserving quite well the neck of the previous volcanic apparatus.
The Fossil Site of Carhaga, Racos is a monument of nature comprising marls and lime, representative and important for stratigraphy and geology for they depict the way the local tectonic has evolved. The reservation is important both scientifically and for research purposes, as it is a “laboratory in situ” where specialists, professors and students may study fossil fauna and the place where it was formed. 
The Cave of the Bear Reservation is a monument of nature which enters the category of the cave reservation in the county of Brasov, important for the parietal leaks on the walls of the caves. It is considered to be most representative for the mountains of Persani. The limes in which it is carved are part of the post-tectonic cover of Persani Mountains. The reservation presents a double scientific interest: the caves – for the parietal elements, including a bear head-shaped concretion and geologically – for the manner in which the local tectonic has evolved. The cave is located in the area of the Apata commune.
The Turn of Turzun is a natural reservation and it comprises a botanic and ornithic site, with slum vegetation (a large number of plants). It represents an important component of the natural ambient specific for the notches that border the Depression of Transylvania. Here, several bird species keep the local nesting conditions, which fully justifies the fact that this is a stopping and reproduction place, along one of the most important bird migration routes towards the southern Mediterranean, in the northern hemisphere.

The Days of Racos, the “Fosnic”

wood, iron and wool profiling, pottery

Placed in the west of the Persani Mountains, close to the basalt quarry from the Racos Commune, Brasov County, the natural reservation "The Basalts of Racos" is a geological reservation in the west of Persani Mountains, occupying a surface of about 1.05 hectares.
The Colomns of Basalt (or the Basalt Columns) of Racos are between 10 and 15 meters high and appeared as a consequence of the fast cooling of the volcanic lava. These are monuments of nature and impress through dimensions, shape and are geologically characterized by the lava running coming from a local eruption center (Capela Hill), running which created, in time, short columns at the lower part and, then, in the middle part long and thick columns above the basaltic foundation.

Built in 1625, the Racos Castle was a fortified aristocratic residence of the Sukosd Hungarian Country. It was of small dimensions, built in the Transylvanian Renaissance style. He received the respective domain from Gabriel Bethlen, as a reward from military services. The bodies of the building, which surround a square court, braced by walls. The castle has circular bastion and the entrance tower is square.  
In the corners of the castle there were bastions, built in a cylindrical form. It had dormitories, saloons, warehouses and kitchens.
The south-eastern bastion had a special role. It was a link to the rooms on the upper floor and had an octagonal-shaped saloon, with semicircular corners. The vault was a spherical cap, where a number of 8 ascending telescopes intersected. Their corners were adorned with colored ribs coming down the brackets.
The entrance in the castle was made through a corridor below the tower in the middle of the southern wing. The castle had a second belt of thicker walls, placed in the eastern, southern and western parts.

In the western parts of the castle, the rooms on both the levels were used to deposit cereals, food, whereas the rooms at the ground floor in the western part were used as stables.
An inscription from 1700, at the entrance of the castle, shows that in that year the castle pertained to Count stefan Bethlen. On the vault of one of the saloons there are the carved arms of Bethlen family.
This castle is related to an episode in the life of a ruling family in Vallachia, during the war between the Turks and the Austrians in 1664, when Lord Grigore Ghica was on the Austrian side. After the war, the lord had to flee to Poland. His wife, Lady Maria, travels through Transylvania, where she comes under the protection of Prince Mihail Apafi and is sheltered for a longer period in Racos Castle. Here the son of Lady Maria is born. The Request of the Turk Empire to send Lady Maria along with her riches at Constantinople is rejected by Prince Mihail Apafi.
After 1873, the castle becomes the property of Count Samuel Teleki. During the bourgeois revolution of 1848/1849, the castle is almost entirely burnt. In 1904 the castle and its domains are bought by the people of the village.