Săvârșin ( hu, Soborsin) is a

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in Arad County,

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. Săvârșin commune lies at the foot of the

Metaliferi Mountains Metaliferi Mountains ( ro, Munții Metaliferi; hu, Erdélyi-érchegység), meaning Ore Mountains, are in the Carpathian Mountain Range and are a division of the Apuseni Mountains. Peaks The highest peak is , with an elevation of . The range als ...

, at its contact point with the

Mureș Couloir Mureș may refer to: * Mureș County, Romania * Mureș (river) in Romania and Hungary (''Maros'') * Mureș culture, a Bronze Age culture from Romania See also * Târgu Mureș, the capital of Mureș County * Ocna Mureș Ocna Mureș (; la, Salin ...

. Its surface occupies approximately 22000

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s and it is composed of nine villages: Căprioara (''Kaprióra''), Cuiaș (''Felsőköves''), Hălăliș (''Áldásos''), Pârnești (''Pernyefalva''), Săvârșin (situated at 87 km from Arad), Temeșești (''Temesd''), Toc (''Tok''), Troaș (''Trojás'') and Valea Mare (''Marosnagyvölgy''). Săvârșin is best known for the royal palace

Săvârșin Castle Săvârșin Castle (, ) is a large Country house situated in ''Săvârșin Park'', a private estate that was owned by King Michael I of the Romanians (1921–2017) in Săvârșin, Arad County, Romania. It is the Romanian Royal Family’s off ...

Population

According to the last census the population of the commune counts 3290 inhabitants, out of which 98.1% are Romanians, 1.0% Hungarians, 0.3% Ukrainians, 0.3% Serbs and 0.3% are of other or undeclared nationalities.

History

The first documentary records of Săvârșin, Hălăliș, Pârnești and Temeșești date back to 1479. Căprioara was attested documentarily in 1256, Cuiaș in 1477, Toc in 1743, Troaș in 1828 and Valea Mare in 1717.

Economy

Agriculture, silviculture, timber industry, industry of building materials represented by exploitation of granite (Săvârșin) and marble (Căprioara), mining based on exploitation of molybdenum (Troaș) and tourism are the main economic branches of the commune.

Tourism

The natural reservations called "''Peștera lui Duțu''" and "''Peștera lui Sinesie''", the collections of decorative fine arts (universal graphics, graphics and paintings made by Eugen Popa and Gina Hagiu) and of ethnography in Săvârșin, the ethnographic museum with popular costumes, folkweave, icons, ceramics in Temeșești, the wooden church called "Sfinții Trei Ierarhi" (1782) in Troaș, the reinforced settlement and the archaeological site situated in "Dâmbul Tătarilor" and "Gomile" are only a few of the numerous spectacles which are worth visiting. Beside these, there is the

(18th century), owned by former King

Michael of Romania Michael I ( ro, Mihai I ; 25 October 1921 – 5 December 2017) was the last King of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947. Shortly after Michael's ...

. In 2005 the royal residence in Săvârșin entered the touristic circuit, but since 2007 it has been in restoration and cannot be visited until the renovation is completed.http://viapontica.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/banloc-manor-a-former-aristocratic-royal-residence-in-western-romania/

References

Communes in Arad County Localities in Crișana {{Arad-geo-stub