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Geoagiu is a town in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania. It is on the Mureş river at an altitude of 217 meters. The river with the same name (Geoagiu) flows in this place into the Mureş. The town has a population of about 6,500.

[edit] Understand

The first settlements in the area can be found in the time of the Dacians, in the 1st century BC, as shown by archeological discoveries. After the Roman conquest, the Romans built the fort of Germinsana in the 2nd century, however, it kept the original Dacian name.

The name of Germisana meant hot water and it showed that the Dacians already knew of the thermal springs of the area. Another opinion that the name came from the Hungarian name of the river Gyógy which means curative. But more probably, the name is coming from the Hungarian word dió (nut as fruit) with the suffix -d, so, after the first documentary citation, villa Gyog from 1291 appeared as Dyod és Dyog (1397), Aldyogh (1407), Algyogh (1412), Aldyod (1439), Alsodyod alio nomine Alsoffalwa (around 1444).

The first documentary citation of Geoagiu (it was written as villa Gyog) was in the year 1291, when it was used as a land in the vicinity of Bintinti (now the village Aurel Vlaicu).

[edit] Get in

[edit] By car

To reach Geaogiu you must take county road DJ 705 which is a branch from E68/DN7 between Orastie and Sebes.

[edit] Get around

You can get around on foot.

[edit][add listing] See

• Roman Camp. South of the village Cigmău, near Geoagiu.  edit

• Rotonde Type Church.  edit

• Roman Baths.  edit

[edit][add listing] Do

• Go dancing at Tarabostes Club. Located inside Baile Daco-Romane Complex with a capacity of 4,000 people on two dance floors.  edit

[edit] Hiking

• Madei Keys-12 km
• Ardeului Keys - 12 km
• Bacaiei Keys - 14 km
• Cibului Keys - 15 km
• Glodului Keys - 12 km
• Cigmaului Cave
• Geoagiu-Bai Fall
• Geoagiu-Bai Cave

[edit][add listing] Buy

[edit][add listing] Eat

• Restaurantul Agrementul, Bloc P1 Parter.  edit

• Restaurantul Germisara, Geoagiu Bai, ☎ +40254249000.  edit

[edit][add listing] Drink

[edit][add listing] Sleep

• Hotel Germisara 4****, Geoagiu Bai, ☎ +40254249000, [1].  edit

• Hotel Diana 2**, Geoagiu Bai.  edit

• Hotel Ceres, Geoagiu Bai.  edit

• Hotel Dava 2*, Geoagiu Bai.  edit

• Vila Corona 2*, Geoagiu Bai.  edit

• Vila Alexandra 2**, Geoagiu Bai.  edit

• Pensiunea Costea, ☎ +40254.249.096.  edit

• Pensiunea Aura, Str. Pinului nr. 18,Geoagiu Bai, ☎ +40254 249091.  edit

• Vila Sanda 2*, ☎ +40254 249111.  edit

• Vila Briliant, Str. Germisara nr. 14, ☎ +40254 249059.  edit

[edit] Contact

[edit] Phone

Geoagiu area code is 254 for Romtelecom and 354 for RDS.If you are calling from Romania you must dial 0254(0354) and if you are calling from abroad you must dial +40254(+40354).

[edit] Get out

• Orastie
• Deva
• Hunedoara
• Hateg
• Petrosani

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