Balta Alba Lake

It is said that Jesus Christ together with St. Peter asked for hospitality to a woman who was in charge of guarding the cows in the village with 7 children. In the absence of food, Jesus turned the dung in the stove into bread. After the feast they became thirsty, but having no water, Jesus struck the bottom of a dry ditch with his staff, and from that moment the water began to flow, later becoming a lake and serving to provide poor families with water. As Jesus left, he told the woman and the seven children not to look back, but hearing the rushing of the water, she turned her head away. At that moment she and the children were turned into a mound on the lakeshore, and can still be seen today.
The village of Balta Alba is attested in the 18th century, during which the Squire Dumitru Seceleanu founded a 100 ha orchard, a fruit dryer, a distillery of brandy, and he was the one who laid the foundations of the Balta Alba resort, building facilities for the treatment of rheumatic diseases and some clinics. Carol Davila analysed the therapeutic quality of the present mud. The first hotel was built in 1872, and soon the hot and cold baths were put into operation. The municipalities of Balta Alba also have a special history, so about the village of Stavarasti it is said that many years ago it had the name “La colacul de piatra”, a name received after the Turks built a fountain over which there is a large stone colac.
The name of the village of Parlita comes from the reed-covered church built of reeds that burned completely. Amara gets its name from the nearby pond whose waters have a bitter taste. The name of the village Balta Alba, as in the case of the village Amara, originates from the name of the lake of the same name, due to the salts that are deposited during the drought on the edge, causing visual illusions, from a distance it looks white. The village of Baile got its name because of the baths that were made in the lake Balta Alba.

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