DEVA - ROMÂNIA
The fortress was a military fortress occupied by Austrian troops, often besieged by the shepherd peasantry. A few years later she was left and during the 1848 Revolution she was occupied by a garrison of Austrian soldiers and destroyed after a blast in the mountains.
Access is very simple, for those who love walks there is a paved road about an hour, with a smooth climb and a beautiful panorama and for the most comfortable there is a cable car that will take you up in a few moments.
The defense tower, the guard room, the household deposits and many other rooms surrounded by walls with defensive means and great city views are just some of the things you can enjoy over Deva, from the fortress.
Deva is one of the oldest settlements in the country, with the first attestation in 1269, but with archaeological discoveries that showed that the territory of Deva was inhabited since the polished stone age.
A small town with over 65,000 inhabitants, situated on the left bank of the Mures River, at the foot of the Apuseni Mountains and Poiana Rusca, which enjoys the temperiest climate in the entire Transylvania. On the top of the hill are the ruins of the fortress (Fortress of Deva) built in the 13th century, during the Mongol invasions, during the early Roman period. At its foot lies the "Fortress Park", which houses two museums, a castle, numerous statues and a lot of important buildings, full of history.
Besides this open-air museum, the town on the Mures shore also hides many other treasures characteristic of other ages.
The park surrounding the hill that houses the city is a museum. Some of the monuments you can see are: Petru Groza Memorial House or The House Without a Roof, Magna Curia Castle, built in the 16th century, which currently houses the County Museum, the statue of Decebal that watches the pedestrian zone and exit from the park, where the buildings of the Tribunal Palace, the County Prosecutor's Office, the National College, the Revealed Theater, the Reformed Church etc.
This street leads to the old center of the city, where there are two extraordinary churches with icons and mural scenes, guarded by the statue of Trajan, which is a place of honor in the Dacian Country.
The Cemetery of Heroes, the House of Culture, the Franciscan Monastery, the Synagogue, the Bejan and the Deer Forests are just some of the tourist attractions in the city of Deva.
Palace MAGNA CURIA:
The main pieces of the museum's patrimony are prehistory collections, Dacian, Romanesque, Early Medieval medieval collections, a collection of white and firearms, modern and contemporary military equipment, collections with pieces of modern and contemporary history.
To these are added a collection of art and one of ephemeris, as well as one of the natural sciences. Ethnography collections are found in museums in the territory: Orastie and Brad.
The administrative palace of Deva:
Is a historic monument built in eclectic style, designed by Alpár Ignác. Today is the headquarters of the Prefecture and the Hunedoara County Council, being placed on the list of historical monuments.
Story LEGEND OF MUREȘ AND OLT
Long ago, in a castle on Mount Hasmas, there lived a king with his family.
As the children were still young, the emperor went to war. Years passed, and the Emperor did not come home.
Then the two sons, Mures and Olt, who grew up, decided to go in search of their father.
Their mother enjoyed what they heard. Her desire was for them not to fall asleep anyway.
The boys promised the mother that they would do it and started off.
But the promise made to the mother was not kept.
The two sons quarreled immediately after they left the palace because they were different and could not understand.
So the Mures went north and the Olt to the south.
The Empress found out what had happened and started after her sons, angry and weeping.
He tried to reach them and reconcile them, but he did not succeed.
Mureş missed his brother to go to the south, but he did not find him.
Their mother still lamented, and the two sons turned into two rivers, and the rivers remained.
Mureș River
The Mureş spring from the Hăşmaşu Mare Mountains, crosses the Gurghiu Depression and the Toplita-Deda, crossing Transylvania separating the Plateau Tarnavelor from the Transylvanian Plain, crossing the Alba-Iulia-Turda corridor, in the Western Carpathians separating the Apuseni Mountains from the Poiana Rusca Mountains, crossing the Western Hills, West crossing the city of Arad in Hungary, where it flows into the Tisza River. For 22.3 km the river marks the Romanian-Hungarian border.
Affluents:
Tarnava Mare, Tarnava Mica (from the Eastern Carpathians) joining the Blaj County of Alba, Sebeş, Strei (from the Southern Carpathians), Arieş and Ampoi (from the Apuseni Mountains).
