Arsenal Park Transilvania is an outdoor theme park

Amusement park

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 in Orăştie

Orastie

Orăștie is a city in Hunedoara County, south-western Transylvania, Romania.-History:7th–9th century – on the site of an old swamp , which today is the old center of town, it was a human settlement whose traces have been scattered into the X-th century by the construction of the first...

, Hunedoara County

Hunedoara County

Hunedoara is a county of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva.-Demographics:In 2002, it had a population of 485,712 and the population density was 69/km².*Romanians - 92%*Hungarians - 5%*Romas - 2%*Germans under 1%....

, and reportedly Romania

Romania

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's largest exclusive retreat. It was opened in June 2009 and is the only military themed park in the country and one of the few in Europe

Europe

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. The theme park is located on a 80 hectare plot of land and it involved total investments of US$ 14 million. The location is the former site of an arsenal factory

Arsenal

An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, issued to authorized users, or any combination of those...

, Rompiro Orăştie specialised in producing explosives

Explosive material

An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure...

, land mine

Land mine

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s and ammunition

Ammunition

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, now a four star resort owned by the Timişoara

Timisoara

Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...

 based Bega Group

Bega Group

Bega Group is one of the largest Romanian holding companies located in Timişoara, Timiş County. The holding si formed by 35 different companies. The company ownes the largest industrial park in Bucharest, Faur, an industrial platform occupied by over 200 companies. The company also ownes the...

. At completion the theme park will total US$ 26 million of investments.

Attractions

The park has a total of 150 accommodation spaces that will eventually rise to 400. The accommodation spaces are divided depending on military rank. The soldiers are bunked

Bunk bed

A bunk bed is a type of bed in which one bed frame is stacked on top of another. The nature of bunk beds allows two people to sleep in the same room while maximizing available floor space...

 in bunker

Bunker

A military bunker is a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks...

s, tank gun

Tank gun

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s and TAB shells. The officers have 40 separate rooms located on the main alley. The colonels have separate apartments located in duplex villas named after four famous colonels: Alexander John Cuza

Alexander John Cuza

Alexander John Cuza was a Moldavian-born Romanian politician who ruled as the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia between 1859 and 1866.-Early life:...

, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from...

, T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...

 and William P. Sanders

William P. Sanders

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. The generals are accommodated in large villas named after three famous generals: Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

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, Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

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 and Eremia Grigorescu

Eremia Grigorescu

Eremia Grigorescu was a Romanian artillery General during World War I, and Minister of War in the Constantin Coandă cabinet ....

. The park is developed like an open air museum

Open air museum

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 with a number of 70 exhibits

Collection (museum)

A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc. This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more paper-based, replaceable and less exhibition oriented...

 which include cannon

Cannon

A cannon is any piece of artillery that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellents to launch a projectile. Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees,...

s, armoured personnel carrier

Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier is an armoured fighting vehicle designed to transport infantry to the battlefield.APCs are usually armed with only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortars...

s, rocket launcher

Multiple rocket launcher

A multiple rocket launcher is a type of unguided rocket artillery system. Like other rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers are less accurate and have a much lower rate of fire than batteries of traditional artillery guns...

s, military gun truck

Gun truck

A military gun truck is an improvised fighting vehicle used by units of regular armies or other official government armed forces, based on a conventional cargo truck, that is able to carry a large weight of weapons and armor...

s and the most important piece an IAR-93

IAR-93

IAR-93 "Vultur" is a twin-engine, subsonic, close support, ground attack and tactical reconnaissance aircraft with secondary capability as low level interceptor, built as single-seat main attack version or combat capable two-seat version for advanced flying and weapon training...

 twin-engine, subsonic, close support

Close air support

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, ground attack

Ground attack aircraft

Ground-attack aircraft are military aircraft with primary role of attacking targets on the ground with greater precision than bombers and prepared to face stronger low-level air defense...

 and tactical reconnaissance aircraft with secondary capability as low level interceptor

Interceptor aircraft

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.