From historic promenades to a new spa complex in Borsec

Borsec: the continuity of a spa landscape between the Belle Époque and the present

In Romania, the Ceaușescu-era urban plans - parallel to the rural systematization program - deliberately sought to dismantle and reshape historic centres. Unfortunately, this process also affected the Transylvanian spa towns: the tower hotels built in the 1970s and 1980s often distorted the original urban concepts.

Borsec somehow managed to avoid the fate of other Transylvanian resorts, where communist interventions destroyed the historical fabric. The premises of historic development can still be clearly seen here today: the benefits of a differentiated urban planning regulation, on the one hand rigid, on the other flexible, which has generated a coherent image and intelligent use of the landscape. The current structure of the resort faithfully reproduces the urban organization of the Belle Époque period and helps to understand how this spa resort functioned at the