Saturday, April 22, 2006

Calimanesti-Caciulata

I know that holidays like Christmas, Easter are holidays to spend together with the family but for me these are opportunities to do something special. There were times when I felt sorry being away but what can be more interesting than to aknowledge new things about places totally different which arose the spirit and make you get in touch with yourself. I have never experienced Christmas away because I can't imagine giving presents from the distance but it can be a challenge for the future. Instead Easter is a period of wandering and searching for God. I had the chance to do this few times but today I am going to talk about the first time the way it remained in my memory untained by the passing time. Calimanesti-Caciulata are in fact two resorts very closed each other that are no longer separated. So Calimanesti-Caciulata resort in Valcea county is situated on the right bank of Olt river, being one of the oldest and best known balneo-climatic resorts in Roumania. We accommodated to Traian hotel endowed with restaurant with bording, day club, disco (although wasn't suited to this occasion), conference room and own treatment base. The resort waters are real health sources since the Romans time. Napoleon the III-rd, following the doctor Carol Davila's medical advice, used Caciulata mineral waters in order to cure himself. You can travel in the neighbourhood of the hotel or you can go visiting trips to the monasteries among which Cozia offers the greatest view and it has historic importance here being buried Mircea The Elder one of our ancestors who died on the battlefield. It's quite a spectacle attending a religious service. You can't understand unless you go there.

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