Ialomita County
With the political consolidation of the Romanian Land in the 14th
century, this territorial unit developed subsequently through colonisation
ordered by the princes and the monasteries, as well as donations by
the boyars and peasants of the following centuries. On the one hand,
this flat region was a defensive shield on the line of the Danube
and at the mouths of the Ialomita river at times of war and invasion,
and on the other it played a consequential role as a zone of transition
and connection for trade and cattle herds between the Carpathian and
Danubian areas.
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Geographical
Outline
Ialomita county is situated in south-eastern Romania and stretches
on 4,453 sq. km, which represents 1.9 percent of the country’s territory.
The county seat is the municipality of Slobozia, lying in the centre
of the Baragan Plain, along the meadow of the river Ialomita. It contains
two suburbias, the Slobozia Noua and Bora districts. The major localities
are: two municipalities (Urziceni and Fetesti), one town (Tandarei),
and 49 communes. The county’s total population numbers 304,985 inhabitants
of whom 126,812 urban and 178,173 rural. The climate is temperate
continental, and the major relief contour is the plain, crossed by
the river Ialomita. The riches of the soil and of the subsoil consist
basically of black and brown chernozem; clay – the raw material used
for the manufacture of bricks and roof tiles; sand – a building material,
sapropelic mud in the lakes of Amara and Fundata; sulfur water – sodium
chlorine, magnesium, salted water in the lakes of Amara and Fundata,
excellent in the treatment of rheumatism; sulfur water more than 100
m deep; thermal water more than 3,000 m deep; petroleum and natural
gas (small reserves).
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Touristic
Information
Situated
in the South-Eastern part of Romania, where old and important
trade roads cross, the Ialomita county - with a population of
306.145 habitants - is a transit zone from Bucharest to Moldavia
and the Romanian seaside. The county, with its level plain,
creates the fascinating impression that the grain reflected
in the distance is the sky of the Romanian Plain itself. Having
in view the life and flora of this county, the fauna is of steppe
and forest, aquatic and hunting ones. The Ialomita county has
an accommodation capacity of over 3,000 places, of which 473
in hotels, over 600 in villas and motels. 1,540 bathing cure
hospitals in Amara and 300 in villas of the school camp in Amara.
The main tourist place of this county is Amara Spa, situated
7 km far from Slobozia and 126 km far from Bucharest, known
thanks to its sapropelic mud and chlorinated and brominated
table waters, used to cure the chronic rheumatism, gynecological
diseases. Also, the Hermes Holidays Park, situated near by the
municipality of Slobozia is a point of tourist interest. The
tourist landscape of the Ialomita county consists also in: the
dam and man-made lake from Dridu, the Pitesteanu Monument-Monastery,
the famous Getic fortress at Piscul Crasani, the crosses carved
in stone used to mark the borders of an estate or the years
when a village was founded, the County Museum, the Agriculture
Museum, and the "Ionel Perlea" Cultural Centre in
Slobozia. The "Sfintii Voievozi" (Saints Voivodes)
Monastery in Slobozia dating from the rule of Matei Basarab,
"Ionel Perlea" Memorial House in Ograda, the Danubian
Bridges in Fetesti.
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