Discover Reşiţa: Culture, Industrial History and Holiday Apartments

Poiana Golului lies at the edge of the forest and offers a viewpoint with exceptional views of the city of Reșita.

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Culture and Film

The Muzeul Banatului Montan holds almost 3,500 film posters from 1940 to 1990, as well as more than 200 theatre posters. The Muzeul Virtual Reșița is a digital museum dedicated to the city and commemorating 250 years of industrial history. The two institutions therefore focus on different areas: one collection preserves printed records of film and theatre, while the other presents the city's history in digital form.

The Muzeul Cineastului Amator Reșita is a private initiative that aims to explore the importance of the amateur film movement in Romania and communicate it to the public. Its main collection consists of film cameras and projectors. Its activities include training camps for amateur filmmakers and a cineclub coordinated by the museum.

The Fântâna Cinetică din Reșița is located in the city centre. It is one of nine kinetic fountains by the Romanian monumental sculptor Constantin Lucaci. Lucaci was awarded the Herder Prize in 1984. Its central location and its place within the work of an award-winning Romanian monumental sculptor give the fountain a clear cultural connection to the city.

Industrial History

At the entrance to Reşiţa from the direction of Timişoara lies the Muzeul de Locomotive cu Abur Reșița, an open-air museum. It houses 16 exhibits from different construction periods. The most important exhibit is RESICZA, one of the first three steam locomotives built in Reșița in the South-Eastern European region between 1872 and 1873. The museum thus connects the location of Reșița with a collection spanning several construction periods and highlights RESICZA as an especially early-built exhibit.

The Funicularul din Reşiţa was built between 1963 and 1964. It was an old transport system for limestone and formed a 3.5-kilometre-long bridge. Of this bridge, 700 metres run through the city. Its history therefore encompasses both the construction period and its former function as a limestone transport system, as well as the unusual extent of one section through the urban area.

The area crossed by the Funicularul din Reşiţa has particular historical value. In the central urban area, the line crosses a railway route on which steam locomotives from 1872, hydraulic turbines from 1946 and large marine diesel engines from 1977 were used. These technical examples range from steam locomotives and hydraulic turbines to large marine diesel engines, illustrating the broad timespan of this industrially shaped area.

The Centrala hidroelectrică Grebla dates from 1903 and is the oldest power station in the city of Reşiţa that is still in operation. It still has the same Pelton turbines with which it was originally equipped.

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