Baile Calan/Hunedoara County/Romania

It is likely that the healing waters of the baths, have been used before Romanian occupation, since the Dacians lived on these lands and the settlement was called Idate. The legend of the Bai is connected and "Three Sisters fairies," which tells how the three fairies to put their skills to work to see which ones are most useful to mankind. Zana loved the arts and possessed little mystery cure diseases and being wise crossed mountains and valleys until he found a hot water spring, health-giving. She dug a pool that has placed in the care of a healer in the mountains of Dacia. After committing works, valuing people waiting incepura fairies. With time, people incepura seek healing baths, alinandu his sufferings. Crossed up on news sources. It tells of the great Decebal himself down from his city to recover his weary body in so many wars

Years have passed, there have been centuries and throughout the world to renew these healing waters. The thermal springs in Aquae were known, they are marked on the map "Tabula Peutengeriana" through a special drawing "consists of a courtyard building. This symbol on the map indicate significant thermal baths.The bathrooms were very popular and used by the Romans, hence the Latin name of "Aqva" (Waters), their existence is attested by the inscription "Genio AQUAENSIS legal persons will receive", which sits on a stone altar at Streisingeorgiu, as votive inscriptions and character that put them in honor of the healing gods. Inscriptions, put the sick or those who visited the baths are made gods Hercules healers, Aesculap, Nimphe, Mitras or invoke the god of the house, such as Silvanus. Roman Basin can be seen today, is in stone, has a perimeter of about 94m, a length of 14.2 m, width 7.5 m and depth of 4m. He (popularly called "spoon") is fed by three springs coming out from bottom. Water flow is through a trough carved in stone. The "Source of Romans" was decolmatat and still produce. The water of these springs is maintained at a temperature of 23-24 ° C. Utilizing the seven springs captured today in a developed area microstatiune known not only locally. After commissioning in 1980, the third blast, then bonded and coke plant over Bai raining soot, ash and coal dust. Silting of ponds and springs in intense soot pollution in the area of Integrated Steel Calan decay caused this resort. In 1995 work was resumed by SC Metaloterm LLC Calan, opening new perspectives for the resort.Currently the water thermo sensor 4371 H is used in five pools of which one is covered. Water temperature is between 27-29 ° C. Water is removed from the probe thermo-Bicarbonate, chloride, calcium, sodium, magnesium with a reddish yellow color, indicating a significantly higher iron content. The therapeutic effects of these thermal waters are used to treat rheumatism, degenerative spondylosis, arthrosis, poliartroza, extraarticular rheumatism (tendinosis, tendomioza, tendoperiostoza, periartritis humeroscapularis), inflammatory rheumatic diseases (conditions painful joints), some skin diseases and neurasthenia . Currently the resort has a restaurant of 125 seats, terrace, 14 boxes with 2 seats, children's playground, tennis court, volleyball court, large space for parking cars. Around the pools are 20 cabins and showers, outdoor disco. The area is rich in historical remains, at Bath Aquae trips can be made to: Church of the stream (5 km), Church of Streisingeorgiu (4 km), Prislop Monastery (20 km), Church and Castle from Sintamaria Orlea ( 27 km), Church of Densus (39 km), Corvin Castle (16km), the Simeria Dendrologic Park (14 km), the bison in the forest reserve Slivut - Hateg (18 km), Cioclovina Cave (18km), Red Stone - ruins of the Dacian fortresses complex (25 km).