Arad

Local comunity:
The Municipality of Arad is placed in the western part of Romania, in the alluvial field of Arad, at the intersection of some important national and international traffic highways. The Mures River crosses it from east to the west. The Municipality of Arad has a rich cultural and historical patrimony. It offers to the visitors a real out-door museum of the architectural styles specific to the XVIII, XIX and XX centuries, art and historical monuments, theatre performances, philharmonic orchestra concerts, plastic art exhibitions, history museum exhibitions, art and sciences of the nature, festivals and feasts.
The architecture lovers can admire buildings erected in baroque, renaissance, eclectic, classic, neo-gothic and secession style, and the most well known monuments of architecture being mentioned below:
Total population (2002): 172.824 inhabitants out of which 82.6 % are Romanians, 12,9 % Hungarians, 1.7 % gypsy, 1.3 % Germans, 0.3 % Serbians, 0.2 % Slovakians, Bulgarians: 0,15%, other 0,85%.
Average altitude - 110 m,
Climate - continental-moderate, with slight Mediterranean influences.
Images you can see at:
http://www.primariaarad.ro
Arad town has a multi-ethnic and multi confessional character. We have Orthodox church here, in two communities Romanian and Serbian, Catholic church, Reformat church, Lutheran church, Mosaic religion. We have also neo Protestants churches like: Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal churches.

Arad is an academic town; here we have two well-known universities, Vasile Goldis and Aurel Vlaicu with more than 7 000 students.
High schools from Arad have around 10 000 teenagers.

Arad offers great leisure opportunities to its inhabitants and visitors.
In the summer time the best place to be in Arad is Neptun “Strand”, a kind of swimming pool with a lot of things added, a recreational area situated in the very heart of the city, near to the fortress.
It is the second from Europe from size point of view and it is situated on Mures river, near the Arad center, on 28 hectares place which is annually visited by 3 000000 people. Here you can see paved paths, green space with more than 30 trees species.
On daytime the opportunities for entertainment are given by special spaces prepared for sun-bating, and on the night you can visit a lot of bars, restaurants, clubs, terraces, disco clubs.
Inside the „Strand”, which is like a tourist resort, there are: 5 swimming pools, some of them with thermal water, 2 tennis ground fields, places for roller skates, field of football, 2 volley fields, more than 300 small lodges, 1500 cabins for people. You can feel the Arad young spirit through the night from this place, “Strand”.