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The urbanistic evolution of the city of Drobeta Turnu Severin in 19 th century 51suburb Mihai Bravul, and suburb Tudor Valdimirescu. The design comprises1861 house lots and, houses and buildings have been built on more than half,with a population of 13000 inhabitants, including floating persons 26 . (Annex 19-The Plan of Turnu Severin at the beginning of the 20 th century)Severin had 12 public buildings, 6 churches (3 Orthodox, 1 Catholic,one Protestant, and 1 synagogue), a hospital, detention before trial, railwaystation, Ships’ Agency, administrative palace and law court. There were only 7-8buildings with modern architecture in town’s center. Now, streets begin to bepaved, and the main thoroughfare was and currently is, Big Street. It was stillun-cobbled in 1887 27 .In the years 1892-1907, Carol Boulevard has been built, together withTraian High School and the Railway Station, after a design made by the chiefengineerof Bucuresti. Three rows of linden trees have been planted in the area.Starting with 1894, Enterprise of Basalt from Bucharest begins to asphalt somestreets and pavements between Carol Boulevard and Big Street.In 1911, there were more factories in Severin, of whom we mention: theshipyard, the Traian beer factory, the factory of cement tubes, that of Ice, thecandies’ factory, 2 brickyards, 2 soap factories, a large tanning housemanufacture, 3 locksmith’s shops, 3 workshops for carts, and one foundry. Thepower station has been built among 1905-1907 in the Public Garden and thebuilding of Communal Baths has been built among 1907-1910 28 .In 1906, the town had 3119 houses on 62 streets and a population of23769 inhabitants. In that period, an increasing process of asphalting the streetswith rolling stones and paving stones taken from the Stone Pits from Vârciorovaand Bahna began. Streets were asphalted from downtown to the suburbs 29 .In the period of 1910-1914, when Constantin Gruiescu was the Mayor of town, 2very important actions took place: the water supply and the sewerage systemwere completed, after a project started in 1892 by Engineer Cucu. This projectincluded: a general plan leveling, sewerage, paving and planting the streets ofSeverin 30 . The Park of Roses has also been gardened then. It is a rarearchitectural masterpiece.In 1910, October, 17 th , the Prime Minister of the time, I. Brătianuarrived into town and 2 other ministers accompanied him: AlexandruConstantinescu and V.G. Morţun. They have attended the inauguration of the26 V. Demetrescu, quoted work, p. 50-51.27 The National Archives, Dr. Tr. Severin, The Town Hall of Tr. Severin, dossier 5/1887,p. 186, 187, 188.28 Gabriel Croitoru, „Issues of Urbane Evolution of Severin in the second part of the19th century- The Service of Water Supply”, in „The Magazine of Socio-Humane Studies”,Craiova, issues 2-3/2003. p. 247.29 The National Archives, Dr. Tr. Severin, The Town Hall of Tr. Severin, dossier10/1906, p. 2-3.30 The Museum of Portile de Fier (The Iron Gates), Document 1899, February 11th(inventory item 3085).