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The Ialomita County
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 trasit 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 accomodation 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, gynaecological 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.
Updated: 1997-06-11 Please write to us with your comments and suggestions.