Welcome to County Arad in the Crişana region of Romania! Discover historic Arad and surrounding villages, and understand the rich Crişana culture unfolding in beautiful county Arad. Rest Romania will help you find the perfect hotel or B&B in our Arad Accommodation section, or a guest house or pensiune in a village nestled in the mountains. Explore all of Arad from Arad to Chişineu-Criş in the north, with Curtici, Ineu, Lipova, Nădlac, Pâncota, Pecica, Sântana, Sebiş, and the commune villages of Clit and Vinga!
Travel by rental car or tour bus and train through the Arad region of Crişana in Romania. Hotels in Arad are well-priced, and great travel and tourism activities from shopping, to exploring the villages, folk art, castles, mountains and forests. See all of County Arad, from Arad to Chişineu-Criş in the north, with Curtici, Ineu, Lipova, Nădlac, Pâncota, Pecica, Sântana, Sebiş, and the commune villages of Clit and Vinga!
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Arad, the seat of Arad County, is situated in the western extremity of
Transylvania. The city could be considered as a tourist stopover if you
are coming to Romania from Hungary, or leaving the country.
Other
incorporated towns in this western-looking county include Chişineu-Criş, Curtici, Ineu,
Lipova, Nădlac, Pâncobta, Pecica, Sântana, and Sebiş, and the
larger villages of Clit and Vinga and about 66 others.
City Hall of Arad
So much history, such a relaxed and friendly town,
one of Crisana's nicest!
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Arad Cathedral is a must see it has beautiful paintings inside. Also a
must see is Făgărov Castle which features fantastic carvings.
The Arad museum also has some nice exhibitions on the areas history.
Besides that if you like your cigars you should go to the cigar factory
which produces fine Romanian cigars.
The town is relatively small, so you can walk from end to end in 20
minutes. Buses run through the town with 5 stops and taxis are available.
Getting There
Access to Arad by car can be taken from highway 12. Buses can be taken
from Cluj Napoca, Brasov, Bucharest, Sibiu and Constanţa
City. For plane access there is a small domestic Airport with flights to
Bucharest 2 times a week. There is a train station with services from
Brasov, Cluj Napoca and Sibiu.
Shopping
Pick up some great cigars here, which vary from $20 to over
$100US.
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Arad has a total area of 7, 754 km˛. In the east there are the Zarand Mountains from the Apuseni Mountains group. In the west the
heights decrease towards the Western Romania Plain. The county is crossed
in the south side by the Mureş River and in the north side by the Crişul
Alb River.
Neighbouring Counties
County Arad is bordered by counties Hunedoara and Alba to the east,
and Hungary in the west (Békés County and Csongrád County). To
the north is the sister county of Arad in the Crişana
region, County Bihor, and in the Banat Region to the south is County Timiş.
County Arad is also part of the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa euroregion.
Demographics
In 2002, it had a population of 461, 791 and the population density
was 60/km˛.
The majority of the population are Romanians. There are also
Hungarians, Germans and Rromas (Gypsies).
Economy
Along with Timiş County forms one of the most
developed regions in Romania. Due to its proximity to the border, it
attracts a great number of foreign investmens.
In addition to some machine and automotive component manufacturing,
the Arad region has the more typical food and textiles.
All of the phone numbers in County Arad
start with (0257) or (0257), depending on whether the service is
through the old state-run operator RomTelecom, or from one of the newer
entrants into the market in Romania.
Dialling internationally into Arad,
you must
remove any leading zero from the county code portion of the phone
number, so that (0257) becomes (257). Dialling a mobile
number (or the Zapp hybrid phones), you do the same, dropping the zero from the (07XX) part of the
number, to make it (7XX). Both landlines and mobiles have 6
digits following the initial county code.
With daily flights to Italy, Bucharest and more, and sited on the
main highway between Hungary and Transilvania,
the city of Arad is
becoming Southern Crişana's
international hub.
Stada
Horea HotSpot, Public HotSpot at the intersection of Strada Horea
and B-dul Revolutiei, in the central district (Centru) in
Arad. Connect to the
c*free (ARAD) wireless network
The sole city in Arad is, not surprisingly, Arad!
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