{"id":3066,"date":"2021-10-21T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.circumeuropa.com\/2021\/10\/21\/our-dream\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T19:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:52:43","slug":"our-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumeuropa.com\/en\/2021\/10\/21\/our-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Our dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our dream was born in Timisoara, a city in western Romania, situated at a considerable distance from the seas and oceans. But Timisoara, a city of world and European firsts, is also a pioneer in the field of navigation.<\/p>\n

In the not-too-distant past, the port of Timi\u0219oara was linked to Europe by the Bega Cannal, the Tisa River and the Danube, as far as Regensburg and further on the Rhine to the North Sea.<\/p>\n

THE BEGA CANAL WAS THE MAIN COMMERCIAL ROUTE OF TIMI\u0218OARA. At the beginning of the 20th century, more than 500 merchant ships sailed the canal for more than 300 days a year.<\/p>\n

The history of the Bega Canal began in 1728 when Count Claudius Mercy ordered the digging of a canal to help drain the flooded land around Timi\u0219oara. Four years later, in 1732, the first ship sailed on the new canal to Pancevo.<\/p>\n