Herculane Project: The young working to secure a future for Romania’s balneal heritage

A young team is working to give a new lease on life to the architectural patrimony in the spa resort of Băile Herculane, one of the oldest in the country while highlighting the role it can play in community regeneration and reactivation.

In 2017 a group of then architecture students set off to alert of the deteriorating state of many of the historic buildings of the spa resort of Băile Herculane, in Caraș-Severin county, embarking on a project to save the area’s balneal patrimony. They set up Herculane Project, aiming to reactivate the ensemble of the Neptune Baths and the resort’s historic center.