Titu

Titu is a town in Dâmboviţa county in the Great Wallachia in Romania.

Location

Titu is located in a directory named after the city part ( Câmpia Titu ) of the Wallachian Plain, about 10 kilometers west of the river Dâmboviţa. The district capital Targoviste is located about 35 km north.

History

Titu was first documented in 1635, which today is my finished district Plopu already 1536. 1832 Titu received the right to weekly markets ( Sundays) and a fun fair (September 14 ) to hold. 1876 ​​refers to two schools, opened in 1902 a bank. In the years 1872-1884 was developed in connection with the construction of the railway line Bucharest - Pitesti and Titu - Targoviste around the station - at that time the name Atirnati wore - a new settlement, in 1927 a separate municipality under the name Principele Mihai (after Crown Prince or King Michael I ) was. After his compulsory abdication end of 1947, this church was for a few months the name Maresal Tito, before even the so Sir Yugoslav Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito in the socialist camp, and thus also in Romania fell into disfavor. After that, the new settlement was called Titu Gară (such as " station Titu " ) and became the focus of a new, consisting of seven villages community. To distinguish the old village Titu Titu Târg was designated (such as " market Titu " ) in the meantime. Titu Titu Târg Gară and are now compiled into Titu. 1968 Titu received its town charter.

On December 22, 1989 - during the Revolution - landed in Titu, the helicopter with the couple Ceauşescu before this with a car fled further from here and was eventually arrested in Targoviste.

The main economic activities are agriculture, food processing, textile and electrical industries. In September 2010, Renault opened in Titu a large test center.

Population

1831 were counted in Titu Târg 109 families. 1930 lived on the territory of today's about 7,000 people. As of the 2002 census lived in Titu 10,183 people, including 10,024 Romanians and 154 Roma.

Traffic

Titu is located on the National Road (drum National) DN 7 about ten kilometers (direct distance ) north-east of the Romanian Motorway A1 and on the railway from Bucharest to Pitesti. Exist in both cities several times a day direct. By the turn-off to Targoviste Titu is a major railway junction in the south of the country.

Attractions

The small town of Titu has to have no specific tourist attractions.

In several incorporated villages Sălcuţa ( Cornetu ) the wooden church Sf. Nicolae, built in the 18th century, renovated at the end of the 19th century and built the Adormirea Maicii Domnului Church, 1836 Plopu, are national monuments.