Lunch in Baia Mare
Trip Start
Aug 19, 2007
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Trip End
Sep 10, 2007
Baia Mare, Romania
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Baia Mare
Then we drove almost without stopping to Baia Mare for lunch at Hotel Carpati, where we ate in a typical gazebo type structure that is very common in Romania. Art had bean and ham soup, and I had mushroom soup, tomatoes, and a big bowl of cherries which I couldn't finish. Food and setting were very nice.
According to Rough Guide, we missed a small, scruffy square in old town; the Art Gallery with canvases by artists of the Nagbanya School of art; the County Museum; and the Museum of Mineralogy with a myriad variety of rocks, crystals, and ore deposits extracted from the region's mines. It was best, though, to have a longish lunch and soak in the pleasant atmosphere of the outdoor restaurant.
From Wikipedia: On 30 January 2000 a dam encircling a tailings pond at a facility operated by Aurul S.A., a jointly owned Austrian and Romanian company, broke. The result was a spill of 100,000 cubic meters of liquid and suspended waste containing 50 to 100 tonnes of cyanide[3]. The spill caused serious environmental damage on the river Tisa.
