Besides the fact that Alba Iulia is a very beautiful and clean city in the heart of Transylvania, some other important facts can convince you to come to the city and prospect all its features:
- The area is connected to Sibiu-Sebeș-Turda highway section, 17 km away and to Sebeș-Turda higway (A10) which will be completed in the near future. Alba Iulia is at the jonction of the 2 motorways. This highway links Transylvania highway with the Pan European Corridor IV and will have two nodes in Alba Iulia.
- The modernized railway line 200, Curtici-Bucharest is also conencted with line 300 to Cluj-Napoca and Oradea. The land is also connected to the National Road1 to Cluj Napoca and Sebeș (Alba Iulia ringroad where we stoped to see the land, Bărăbanț railway freight yard and Ciugud Industrial Area. It is also connected at 20 km to Coșlariu freight yard and Teiuș - the most important railway junction in Transylvania.
- New high speed railway will be available starting with 2020.
- Alba Iulia is connected with 3 international airports (Cluj-Napoca Airport 120 km away, Târgu Mureș Airport -100 km away and Sibiu Airport -70 km away).
- The average monthly net wage in 2018 was approx 520 Euros at Alba County level.
- Workforce available in the metropopitan area AIDA – Intercommunity Development Association Alba (612 sqkm).
- Metropolitan local transport ensured at AIDA level, ensuring a very good mobility connection between Alba Iulia and the rural areas surrounding the City within the metropolitan area - 612 sqkm.
- Existence of a German Vocational School and 2 clusters working in metal industry and tourism.
- A young university active with more than 5000 studens in diverse fields such as IT engineering, Tourism Economy, Marketing, Languages and Phylology, History, Theology, Social Sciences etc.)
- Starting with 2015 in Alba Iulia the Technical University from Cluj Napoca (one oft he most important University Centre in Romania) has a branch in Alba Iulia Municipality focused on Machines Building and Mechanical engineering.
- Alba Iulia is the first City from Central and Eastern Europe that signed an agreement with the World Bank and was rated by one of the most important Rating Agencies in the world, Moody's. The scope of the agreement between the World Bank and Alba Iulia was to review the development projects implemented in Alba Iulia contributing to the long term strategy of the city and to provide technical assistance for assessing Alba Iulia’s long-term plans, strategies, and projects for the 2014-2020 programming period.
- According to the World Bank and Moody's, Alba Iulia Municipality has a strong institutional capacity for planning urban development and attracting financing resources for urban policies and projects.
According to the World Bank the The city of Alba Iulia ranks first among Romanian county capitals in per capita EU funds absorption. Alba Iulia Municipality managed to attract more than 150 milion Euros European Funding fort he last few years for the rehabilitation and enhancement of the cultural heritage, rehabilitation and modernisation of the car and pedestrian infrastructure, public lightning, sweage etc. (More than 50 milion Euros were invested only for the rehabilitation of the Fortress – rehabilitation of the monuments, of the walls, acces infrastructure, sewage, public lightning etc.) (https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/09/24/world-bank-helps-romanias-top-performing-alba-iulia-boost-potential-to-access-69-million-eu-funds)
Photo credits: Romulus Opriscan
