CARA SEVERIN COUNTY

R E I AResita is the most important town of Caras-Severin County. Its history starts in 1769. Here was built the first metallurgical works. In time, Resita became one of the most important industrial towns in Romania.The centre of the town

The kynetic fountain in the city centerOpen-Air Museum of the Steam Engines was founded in 1972. The museum has 16 exhibits from different periods of construction. The most important is the steam engine called RESICZA, the first steam locomotive fabricated in the south-east of Europe, in 1872. John Haswell is the author of the project, an engineer from Scotland, who he lived in Vienne.

The huge hall where the steam engines were fabricated, 1887The second steam engine ever produced in Romania, RESICZA 2 1872The museum was built in 1959. It is a very modern building.

The museum has a large collection of objects : objects from Paleolithic (flint tools), Neolithic (tools, painted pottery, statues and altars), Bronze, Hallstatt, Dacian era, Roman pottery, medieval era (silver, bronze and copper ornaments), numismatics (Greek, Roman, Byzantine coins, from modern and contemporary era), history (documents, photos, old books), ethnography (clothing, interior fabrics from Caras, Herculane, religious painting on glass and wood, contemporary Romanian art, collection of minerals).The County Museum of History

EFTIMIE MURGU UNIVERSITY (UEM) of RESITA was founded in 1971.

There are two Faculties: the Faculty of Engineering, founded in 1971 and the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, founded in 1995.

The University participates in European programmes such as Tempus, Socrates/Erasmus, Culture 2000 and Leonardo da Vinci programmes and cooperates with various Universities from: Germany, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria, Moldavia, France, and Canada.

G.A.PETCULESCU THEATRE is the local theatre with a short, but active history, and it is in the historical monument building called the Cultural Palace, recently restoredResita Orthodox Cathedral, a monumental byzantine construction finished in 1938.

The Evangelic Church

The Synagogue

3rd July1771Furnace no. 2 Resita is the last furnace with a capacity of 700mc that still is in Romania and one of the last in Europe. Today is included in the Romanian National Patrimony as a historical monument.

There are few people who know that the famous symbol of Paris, Eiffel Tower, was constructed after the plans of an original technology invented by a Romanian engineer, Gheorghe Panculescu. Gustave Eiffel himself visited him and they discussed how to adapt the new technology to build up the tower.

The first hydroelectrical plant in Resita was built between 1903-1904 and is still working today.

THE KINETIC FOUNTAIN

THE OLYMPICSWIMMING POOL

Republicii Boulevard at night

Panoramic viewPigeons in the central square

Resita in winter

Coals road in the air

Semenic HotelThe National Romanian Bank Resita Branch

Our hometown, Resita

The Polyvalent HallUNIVERSAL the oldest modern shop in ResitaRogge Hotel

Interior of the Church Saints Peter and PaulReligious Celebration LET US BE LIGHT on Palm Sunday, March 2010

This is our hometown, Resita