Sunday, April 30, 2006

Baile Herculane

The best trips are those spontaneous and usually somewhere around the city you live in. If I get the chance to leave home and a day to spare, a trip for two hours is ideal especially if the place and the surroundings have a wide variety of offers. Take Herculane spa for example, it's placed in the middle of the mountains, you have acces to water too in the Cerna river and also multiple possibilities to relax giving its treatment base. The existence of the baths in The Herculane resort is well known sience times out of mind. Human existence in these places is certified by numerous archaeological discoveries. The stones tools and weapons found during the diggings on the archaeological site „The Outlaws Cave“, and in other places, as well as pottery relics reveal the fact that primitive civilisation in this part of our country. The names included in the inscription belong to five remarkable citizens in Dacia, sent to Rome as reprezentatives of the province, take part in the ceremony of appointing M. Sedatius Severianus as consul in 153 ad. The unintrerupted use of the baths by the romans was first and foremost facilitated by the efficiency of thermal springs.
The balnear city Baile Herculane is posted in south west of Roumania , at the crossing of the 45 degreees 52'N parallel with 23 degrees 52'E meridian, in the same position vith Venice and Nice. The city is on the board of Cerna river sheltered by Mehedinti and Cerna mountains. Its position in the Cerna Valley created the opportunity of a National park Cerna-Domogled which it shouldn't be missed. Downtown you can admire the architecture of the buildings , the well known statue of Hercule, the hole city being a shrine to the gods and also the Grota Haiducilor (Outlaws Cave) a hidden grotto lasting from old times. The hotels are endowed with a wide variety of facilities and an interesting offer of trips in the surroundings: in Semenic mountains and Cerna Valley, Cerna Gorges; Drobeta Turnu Severin city (Traian's bridge, Tabula Traiana, Tismana Monastery), Cerna's waterfall and let's not forget the most important sightseeing "7 Hot Springs" the most famous place in Herculane for its healing effect and of course for health waters used in a great variety of medical treatments. Either you came for entertainment reasons or for health reasons this place is amazing and breathtaking.

1 comment:

Hugh LeDuc said...

Multumesc pentru aprecieri. Sper ca blog-ul meu va ramane cel putin la fel de interesant si pe viitor. Te astept cu pareri noi.