A MOUNTAIN WITH THE NAME OF A FLOWER

Interesting facts

The Eagles’s Bath Cryonival Lake is located 1.5 km away from the Semenic Resort, between Gozna and Piatra Nedeii.

 The waters of the lake, no matter if it is summer or winter, have always the same temperature of 6 ° C, being considered healing waters.

Description

The Mountainous Banat, between mountain peaks and water beds, offers tourists the true splendour of the nature with which God has blessed these lands.

The Pearl of Mountainous Banat is Mount Semenic, a mountain bearing the name of a flower and a legend. The flower of “semenic” is a good”sister” of the edelweiss flower, but less beautiful, “it is white or pink, very fluffy, and it is made up of a bunch of several small flowers. It can be seen and collected in the summer in August.[Peia L., 1995].

The legend of the mountain says that in the past, on the plateau of the mountain, they would organise the “Nedei” a traditional feast of the Mountainous Banat shepherds, on the “transhumance road “.”For Istro-Romanians, the word “Sămenni” meant a fair and a religious holiday, something similar to the “nedeia” in the times of the Dacians. This word turned into Semenic under the Slavic influence. (…) The “nedeia” feast originates in the distant past of our people of farmers and shepherds. [Meila M., 2011].

Hence the name of Piatra Nedeii / The “Nedeia” Stone (1437), the lowest peak of Mount Semenic.

During the “nedei” feast organised on Mount Semenic goods and news were exchanged, and the song and the game called to joy. This is how the “doina” (love song) was born in the Banat’s folklore, perhaps from a slight envy, but also from the fascination of the greatness of the mountain:

„ Oh, Mount, Mount Semenic,

You do not have a care in the world,

Neither for wind nor rain,

Thou do not long for soft lips.”


You should also listen to the beautiful song “The Semenic Waltz” at the local radio station “Radio România Resita”, whose radio wave can be “received” from any place in Mountainous Banat on the frequency of 105.6 MHz.

Mount Semenic is metaphorically named “The Water Castle” of Banat, because “springs and rivers of crystalline water spring from all its sides and flow radially down the valleys like the spits of a wheel.[Bizera M., 1971].

The most important rivers (Nera, Timis and Bârzava) spring from here. Also from Mount Semenic spring the tributaries to the right of the Belareca River, which flows into Cerna near the baroque-style railway station of the Herculane Baths resort.

Only Caraş springs from the Anina Mountains.

Mount Semenic “mirrors the high forehead of its crests in the glare of the water beds trenching these legendary realms.[Fabian F.V, 2007].

The beauty of wild-looking landscapes, storage lakes and clear waters of cold springs turn the Mount Semenic in a wonderful oasis for practicing tourism in any season of the year.

Those who want to admire Mount Semenic and the chain of lakes are assisted by the nature that “did not throw deep ravines in the way of the hikers and did not oppose with the adversity of the abysses for those who want to climb the heights. (…) Anyone can get anywhere”. [Bureau V, 1982].

That is why we will try to depict the Semenic resorts from the perspective of the tourist who will be looking at them with new eyes, although he knows that Semenic and Herculane Baths were “outsourced” by private people, strangers, who are not from this place and “feel nothing for Banat”, even with the price of not being better than before 1989.

So a touristic route is proposed, on which, the tourist arrives in the middle of wild nature within only a  few steps from the path; and a theme park is suggested where nature completely surrenders to the human. In Banat “man has chosen his places, and the places bound the man.”  [Birou V., 1982].

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