The buildings had on their front sides statues which represented Gods or Goddesses ... I can see in my mind altars made of calcar placed near the miraculous springs with hot water. Here I can go back to the first medicine's days. Some inscriptions remind me of the "health elixir" made into the Dacian mountains. I cross over a bridge and I see some other inscriptions, one from 153 A.C.; five honorable citizens of Dacia, just returned from Roma, came to Herculane searching for good health, and they wanted the future to remind them. Next to it I see a place in which the sacrifices for the Gods were made. A woman named Junia Cyrilla suffered from rheumatism,and she was cured at Herculane, 18 hundred years ago. As a sign of her gratitude she built an altar. Not far away another sign: Julianus Calpurnius, the former leader of the Vth Legion "Macedonica", tells everybody, that he also treated himself here. After he was cured he thanked Hercules for this miracle.

In 198 AC even the general governor of Dacia ,with his entire family went at Herculane The protector of Roman thermae was Hercules, also the God father of the Ulpia family, which included Emperor Traian. The spring Hercules was also called "the spring of the power". After the Romans left Dacia, the resort continued to be used. During the period of the invasions, it was seriously damaged, then the same thing happened during the battles carried against the Ottoman Empire. Before the Goths' invasion here were hidden the two discovered treasures (which consisted of 2000 and respectively 900 silver coins).

In 1718, the Banat region was conquered by the Habsburgic Empire. The ancient resort was discovered again. The Roman remainders of the resort amazed the entire Europe. Coins, statues,etc were sent to the Empire's capital and they were the pride of the former library from Imperial Court in Vienna. In 1755 a ship sank itself into the Danube and together with it the waves covered two beautiful statues representing Hercules.

English version by Nora Parvu