Costeşti (Argeş)

Costeşti
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Great Wallachia
Circle :	Argeș
Coordinates :	44 ° 40 '  N , 24 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 39 '56 "  N , 24 ° 52' 50"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	240  m
Area :	108.64  km²
Residents :	10,375 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	95 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	115200
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 48
License plate :	AG
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	city
Structure :	6 districts / cadastral municipalities: Broșteni , Lăceni , Pârvu Roșu , Podu Broșteni , Smei , Stârci
Mayor :	Ion Baicea ( PNL )
Postal address :	St. Victoriei, no. 49 loc. Costeşti, jud. Arges, RO-115200
Website :	www.primariacostestiag.ro
Others
City Festival :	May June

Mayor's office in Costeşti

Costeşti ( pronunciation ^{? / I} ) is a Romanian city ​​in Argeş County .

location

Costeşti is located on the northern edge of the Wallachian Plain at the transition to the foothills of the Southern Carpathians . At Drum național 65A , the place is about 20 kilometers south of the district capital Piteşti .

history

Costeşti was first mentioned in documents in 1452 and declared a city in 1968.

A tragic event took place in the city on Good Friday in 1930 when 130 people, most of them children, were burned to death in what was then the wooden church.

Agriculture and food processing are the city's main industries. There are also some smaller industrial companies.

population

At the 2002 census, Costeşti registered 10,868 inhabitants, including 10,760 Romanians and 102 Roma . 8440 lived in the actual city, the rest in the six cadastral communities.

traffic

The Costeşti station, where express trains stop, is an important railway junction in southern Romania; here branches off the Piteşti– Roşiorii de Vede line to Piatra-Olt . Bus traffic is also important (regular connections to Pitești). The national road Drum National 65A runs through the city from Piteşti to Turnu Măgurele .

Attractions

• Memorial to the victims of the 1930 fire

Web links

Commons : Costești  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ harta.infoturism.ro, accessed on January 17, 2009 ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 2002 census, accessed January 17, 2009