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Active Tourism in Southwest Romania The South-west romanian counties Arad, Caras-Severin, Hunedoara and Timis spread over 35000 sqrkm. Possibilty of active tourism though exists over 45000 sqrkm, including parts of the neighbour counties Bihor, Alba, Mehedinti, Gorj and of course all over Romania. The Link to Europe Southwest Romania, besides Transsylvania, is that part of Romania which has the longest connection in time to Western Europe. It was part of the Habsburgian Monarchy between 1718 and 1918, but the region had already been directly linked to Europe since the Middle Ages (till the battle of Mohacs, 1526), trough Ioan the Hunedoara/Hunyadi Janos for example (father of the Hungarian king Johann Corvinus) who had his residence in Hunedoara, or Sigismund of Luxemburg who built fortresses in Timisoara and at the Danube. Between the Orient and the Occident The well preserved fortress on the Marosch/Mures/Mieresch in Arad is a living proof of the westeuropean art of defence in this border-region between Orient and Occident. The centers of towns like Timisoara (its unique barock and modern buildings), Arad (old barock churches and neo-classicism), Lugoj, Orawitza (1817 completed theather, a 1:5 copy of the old Vienna theatre) or the old churches from Densus, Strei, and Santamaria-Orlea are monuments which not only europeans should see. Opposed to these, lie the rural areas, the villages, where time seems to stand still. Remainders of the Technical Progress and Untouched Nature On the other hand, technical and urban pioneerwork marks the modern age in this region. Timisoara was the first city in Europe to introduce eletric lightening on the streets, Arad, had the first tramway in this part of Europe (to the Arad vineyard), Resita built between 1872 and 1961, thousands of steamlocks, some of which you can admire in a unique open-air museum. The Banat Region, with the most wide-spread area of oak-trees and lime-trees in Romania and the uniqe remainder of the old european woods (the Nera Reservation) known as the south-eastern Karpathian-bear zone, is at the same time one of the hydrologically and ecologically best managed parts of Romania. People, the Biggest Treasure Last but not least, a very interesting feature is the great variety of nations that are living together in this region. Among the romanians coexist (with their own areas, folk-costumes, architecture, music, religion, superstitions and festivals) germans, serbs, croats, hungarians, czechs, slowaks, gypsies, ukrainians, bulgarians, partially still learning at schools in their own mother-langauge.
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