The initiative of building the Roman – Catholic Congregation was launched in 1860, for satisfying the spiritual needs of the community of this religion from the city, significant as number and material state. Therefore, in 1858, the catholic community from Severin numbers 600 souls, fact which determines the appointment of a stable priest. Also, in […]

After the town of Turnu Severin was reproclaimed county residence, on April 23rd 1833, major Ion Ciupagea settled here with his wife, title lady Dumitrana. To their name we also tie the „Maioreasa” church foundation. It was raised at the advice of father Mitrică from Cerneţi, at the time archbishop. With a special piety for […]

Gheorghe D. Anghel (born August 22nd 1904 in Drobeta Turnu Severin – died April 9th 1966, Bucharest) was a Romanian sculptor. At the age of 19, after finishing the School for boys no. 3 and Traian High school, he leaves for Bucharest where he enrols in the School of Fine arts. After attending the classes […]

The building that houses the museum was built by the Sabetay family, one of the richest and most famous families in the area, in the 1890s by a team of Italian architects constructors. The refinement and sumptuousness of the interiors are the attributes that give it the feel of a palace. The Venice crystal in […]

The county library in Drobeta Turnu-Severin was founded in 1921 by the gift of Ion Gheorghe Bibicescu, cultural figure and governor of the National bank (between 1914-1924). Born in 1848, in Ceneţi, at the time county residence of Mehedinţi, Bibicescu distinguished himslef in the Romanian public life as a journalist and economist, collaborator of C.A. […]

The Monument of the Crypt of Heroes is situated in the proximity of the Roman thermae as a symbol of the heroes involved in the ancient conflicts. In 1912, the professor Al. Bărcăcilă founds the History Museum of the Traian High School, which will be moved in 1926 in the new building built near the […]

The location to build the Traian bridge was chosen by Apolodor of Damascus downhill from today’s Severin, because the Danube waters were calmer after exiting the Cazanelor defile (Porțile de Fier) and the bottom of the river was loaded enough with rocks and stones carried from the pass between the Carpathians and Balcans, an extremely […]

These are the most complex thermal instalations in Lower Dacia. Today, less than half of the thermal ruin remin. It seems that they were used by soldiers stationed in the Drobeta camp, as well as by civilians. They were built by soldiers of the V Macedonica legion at the same time as the camp and […]

In 1933, when the city of Drobeta Turnu Severin was celebrating 100 years of existence, its congregation only frequented three existing churches: in the center the Maioreasa church dedicated to „Adormirea Maicii Domnului”; in the north the „Sf. Dumitru” church, a cemetery chapel and in the west the „Grecescu” church dedicated to „Sf. Ioan Botezătorul”. […]

In 1912, professor Al. Bărcăcilă founds the Trian highschool Historical museum, which will in 1926 move to the newly built building near the Roman camp, buildings which was since beginning supposed to house a museum which will now be called the History and Ethnography museum from Turnu Severin. After 1945 the museum grows in importance […]