Simeria City App

Features Simeria City App

Simeria City App is a project initiated by Simeria City Hall for locals and visitors.Are you local?- Get involved by reporting the incidents of the departments of SImeria City Hall;- Be aware of what is happening in the news and news of the city;- Find useful information for locals: public services, sanitation, education, health, beauty, legal and shops;- Consult the calendar of events and stay connected to the cultural life of the city.Are you a visitor?- Discover Simeria and its surroundings;- Explore the city, visit tourist attractions and leave reviews of your favorite places;- Distribute your favorite information on social channels;- Take a walk through the Simeria Dendrological Park and read more about the history and species of the most spectacular arboretum in the country;- Find recommended accommodation, meals, confectioneries and cafes;- Try activities and participate in city events.About Simeria:In the years 1862-1869, the Arad – Alba Iulia railway was built on the Mureș Valley, the first railway in Transylvania, with the Simeria-Petroșani and Simeria-Hunedoara branches.
The location of the workshop for repairing locomotives and wagons, as well as a passenger station, in the area where the Strei River flows into the Mureș River, gave birth to the Simeria Colony, where Romanian, German, Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Italian, Serbian workers lived.
and Croats.
The town of Simeria was built around the colony, which, after 1885, became permanent.
In the Belle Époque, the buildings of important institutions for a railway junction were built in Simeria: housing for officials, the post office, the railway hospital (late 19th century), the elementary school (1875), the kindergarten (1884).After the First World War and the union of Transylvania with Romania, the Orthodox church was built in Simeria, branches of the banks, the buildings of the communal bathroom, the town hall appeared and the monument in the city center was erected in honor of the local heroes.
With the end of the Second World War, the locomotive and wagon workshops were rebuilt in Simeria, the marble processing industry, the scrap metal preparation industry for the Hunedoara steelworks were developed, a milk industrialization factory was set up, the agriculture, fruit growing, animal husbandry.In 1952 Simeria was declared a city, including the neighboring localities of Simeria Veche, Cărpiniș, Sântandrei, Săulești, Uroi, Bârcea Mare.
Simeria is an area rich in traditions and customs and is where the city of Simeria is located.
The surrounding villages, although they belong, from an organizational point of view, to the same nucleus -Simeria-, are very well personalized.
Thus, folk costumes, customs and traditions have their peculiarities inherited for centuries, each area thus becoming a "database" as a vital source in any society: folklore.As a last important act in the cultural segment of Simeria is the promotion of the festival "Songs of Streiului", supported by the non-profit association of the same name, which carries out a cultural, civic and scientific activity, which accepts and promotes both national values ​​and principles.
and the European principles of interculturality The main tourist attractions are the Măgura Uroiului Nature Reserve (10 ha) and the Simeria Arboretum (70 ha), an interesting dendrological park, on the 3rd place in Europe in beauty and number of tree species and on the 11th place.
It was built around 1700, around "Gyulay Castle" (later "Ocskay Castle").