Hercules' Statue
"Roman" Hotel
Town in SW Romania (Caras-Severin county), situated in the Cerna Valley, between the Mehedinti Mountains in the east and the Cerna Mountains in the west, elevation 160 m, 41 km NW of the municipality of Drobeta-Turnu Severin (seat of Mehedinti county); population 6,076 (july 1, 1991).
The climate suffers Mediteranean influences. The average annual temperature is of 14°C (July average 22°C; January average 1°C). The annual precipitation averages 750 mm. Winters are mild, summers cool, spring is short and comes early and autumn is long. The air is powerfully ionized (2000 negative ions/cu.cm).
This is the oldes health resort in Romania, known since the Roman times, when it was called Ad aquas Herculis sacras (its documentary attestation as a resort dates back to A.D. 153), for the therapeutical effects of the sulphurous, sodic, calcic, magnesian, oligomineral thermal waters, that are slightly radioactive, used both in internal and external cures. Given the high temperature of the mineral waters (38-60°C) and the varied mineralization (3166-7426 mg...), their physiologic action is complex and the therapeutical value - matchless.
The resort has developed especially after 1948 when it became an all-season resort of national importance, recommended for the treatment of degenrative rheumatic troubles (arthrosis, polyarthrosis, spondylosis, etc.), inflammatory (spondylitis) and abarticular (tendonitis, tendomyositis, scapulohumeral periarthritis), peripheral neurological disorders (pareses, paralysis), as well as for the treatment of associated diseases (gynecological, respiratory, otorhynolaryngological, dermatological, obesity, etc.). The modern balneal facilities provide for hydrotherapy, kinetotherapy, electrotherapy, there are gyms and sauna, etc.
Contraindications: tuberculosis, liver and kidney diseases, uncompensated cardiac diseases, arterial hypertension over 180 mm HG, Parkinson, acute ulcer, neoplasm, phsyhical diseases, drug addiction.
Tourists can make some excursions nearby or up in the mountains on the following Tourist lines:
- Cerna Waterflow - Seven Springs - Oplympic Pool with thermal water
- Pecinisca - Pecinisca Gorges - Feregari Valley - Soim Gorges (mark: yellow cross, 3 1/2 - 4 hours)
- Domogled Gorges - White Cross - Domogled Peak (1106 m) - (mark: blue stipe, 8-10 hours)
- Munk Spring - Red Spring - Cave with steam (56°C) - Adam's Cave (169 m long) - Outlaws' Cave (Grota Haiducilor) (143 m long) (mark: yellow point, 2-3 hours)
- Cerna Valley - Cerna Village - Corcoaia Gorges - Cerna's Spring (mark: red point, 1 hour)
- Ghizela's Peak - Codiu Watreflow (100 m high) (mark: red point, 2 hours)
"Hercules" Hotel
View from the Museum
