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Abstract: Setting-up the Balneotouristic System in Romania. This paper makes a geographical-historical analysis of the resorts’ evolution and development. The first watering arrangements began to use the thermal waters from the south-western part of the country during the Roman domination, within the interval 131-271 a.Chr.: The Herculane Spa (Ad Aqua Herculi Sacras ad Mediam) Băile Geoagiu (Germisara-Thermae Dodonae), Călan (Aque). The increased use of both, the thermal and mineral waters (especially the carbogaseous and salted waters) began in the second part of the 18th century, leading to the setting up, in phases, of a numerous balneotouristic resorts that were followed in the second part of the 19th century by the mountainous ones. A part of the resorts that fill the Carpathic region were organized for winter sports, followed, after 1900, by the sea ones. The setting–up of the balneotouristic system in Romania was achieved in phases, beginning with the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, from 1850 till 1918; the interwar period followed, completed by the contemporary period. These phases displayed certain tendencies, determined by specific social-historical and economic conditions. As a result, there are to be observed increases, stagnations and even regresses (the one registered after 1990). On the whole, the number of resorts, that exceeds 100, with different profiles, dimensions and physiognomies, formed especially in the last two centuries, gives a specific note to the anthropic landscape of Romania, covering, with a different density, the whole territory of the country. The Carpathinas, Subcarpathians, Transylvania Depression, the Western Hills and Plains and especially the Black Seashore are to be highlighted from this point of view. |
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