Castra Germisara

About

Germisara was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia, now a ruin near the village of Cigmău in Romania.

The fort is located almost two kilometres east of the village Cigmău and two kilometres south-west of the small town of Geoagiu in the undeveloped, agriculturally used or wasteland "Cetatea uriasilor" (fortress of the giants) or "Progadie". Topographically, it lies on a high terrace on the northern bank of the Mureș, about two and a half kilometres below the confluence of the Geoagiu River. In ancient times, the fort probably had the tactical task of monitoring the valley of Mureș and the strategic function of controlling an area in which numerous Dacian fortresses had been located before the Roman occupation. Administratively it was first located in the province of Dacia superior, later in the Dacia Apulensis.

The Roman health resort Germisara, today Geoagiu-Băi, developed five kilometres north of the fort and made use of the thermal springs of the mountains.