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Caras-Severin is a county in the Banat region of Romania, which resides in the industrial town of Resita. Located in the southwestern part of Romania, the Caras-Severin county has an area of ​​8514 km² (3.6% of the country's surface, it is the third largest in the counties of the country) and comprises 2 municipalities, 6 cities, 69 Common and a total of 287 villages. Geographically, in the Caras-Severin county there are all three classic stages, but predominantly the mountainous relief that occupies 65% of the territory, being represented by the Banat Mountains, Tarcu Mountains, Godeanu Mountains And the Cerna Mountains. That is why it can be considered as a mountainous county. The mountainous relief rises in altitude from west to east, culminating in the Godean Mountains, with their heights of 1600-2200 m, rising far above the southern part of the Poiana Rusca Mountains and the Semenic, Almaj, Locvei, Aninei and Dognecei Mountains, Which have heights between 600 and 1400 m.

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The Bigar Waterfall

The Bigar Waterfall
At 12.68 km from Anina city center.

Baile Herculane Resort

Baile Herculane Resort
At 0.1 km from Baile Herculane city center.
The Bigar WaterfallLocated in the Nerei - Beusnita National Park, in the Caras-Severin County, Minis Valley, halfway between Anina and Bozovici, on DN 57B, the Bigar Waterfall is practically the place where the Bigar burst flows into the Minis River. In Banat, locals call a spring from which water emerges from under the rock. The Bigar, whose water is of rare purity, is fed by an underground watercourse that comes out of a cliff over 50 meters high. It crosses the cave with the same name from the Anina Mountains and after a distance of about 200 meters, it flows into the Minis River forming the Bigar Waterfall. The Bigar Waterfall became very famous after it was declared the world's most beautiful waterfall in 2013 by the American site "The World Geography" which placed it in the top spot of the most impressive Waterfalls in the world.The Bigar Waterfall
Baile Herculane Resort

The origin of the Herculane Baths has lasted for almost two millennia. The bases of the resort were laid in 102 AD. by the Emperor Trajan, the Romans introducing the balneary cult taken from the Greeks that they then developed. The name of the resort comes from the god Hercules, the son of Zeus and the beautiful Elena, recorded in Roman mythology as a patron of thermal springs, symbol of power and balance between physical and spiritual power.

In 1736, General Andreeas Hamilton, Governor of Banat from Emperor Charles VI, rebuilt the baths and mentioned the existence of the terms of Hercules, Higeea, and Esculap. The highest-flowing spring is Hercules, which is emerging under Roman Hotel and there is a Baia-no. 9.

The resort is visited by great personalities, including Emperor Joseph II, Emperor Francis I and Empress Carolina, Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elizabeth. In 1852 the Emperor of Austria considers Baile Herculane the most beautiful resort on the continent, and Empress Elizabeth (Sisi) writes an intimate diary in which Baile Herculane is a distinct and delightful presence.

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Baile Herculane Resort