Another characteristic of the Municipality of Arad is its multi-confessionality, attribute bestowed by the diversity of the existing religions: Orthodox, Roman-Catholic, Greek Catholic, Evangelical - Lutheran, Protestant, Neo-Protestant and Mosaic.

The religion places with historic value are shown in the table below:

The geographic characteristics of the area where the Municipality of Arad is situated, favored the existence of various amusement areas:

¨     "Neptun" Swimming Place , located in the Mureş ringlet, is one of the most beautiful places of amusement of this kind in our country. The Swimming Place is stretched over 20 hectares of green area, including swimming pools, sport courts, playgrounds for children, club houses, discos, over 1500 dressing cabins and 300 cottages.

¨     The Mureş embankment, where you can find the Children's Park and the Eminescu Park (carried out at the end of the XIX century), the Europe Park (where many mayors of the cities twinned to Arad planted many trees and where takes place celebrations with the occasion of the Europe Day), sport courts and playgrounds for children.

¨     The small wood situated in the vicinity of Podgoria Market. At the end of the XIX century, the green area was a lot larger, the natural lake from here being surrounded by a small wood reminiscence of the Ceala Forest.

¨     The Ceala Forest, situated at 2 kilometers distance of the west border of the city stretched over 1560 hectares, is one of the favorite places for the people of Arad to spend their free time. In this forest there is a natural lake "Moltăreţ" Lake. A very picturesque place is the Mureş Isle, situated at the South edge of the forest. On this island made of the main Mureş riverbed and a side river branch of Mureş, there are a lot of holiday camps and huts.

¨     The Vladimirescu Forest situated in the vicinity of the Vladimirescu suburban village, at a distance of 7 km of the East border of the city. The vegetation and fauna from this area is specific to the flood plain forests.

¨     Miniş-Măderat Vineyard situated at about 30 kilometers East of Arad, at the feet of the Zărand Mountains. This area has a rich wine-growing tradition, lakes for amusement and fishing, medieval fortresses, memorial museums and old religion houses. Here start a lot of marked mountain routes.

¨     The thermal swimming pools from Curtici, Macea, Şofronea and Dorobanţi, situated at a distance of 25 kilometers North of Arad, where you can find pools with geothermal water that reach 58 Celsius degrees.

In Arad this type of tourism developed especially after 1989, when investment opportunities were created for the foreign enterprising persons. The strong points of the business tourism are:

       - conference rooms, seminars at the three stars hotels

       - vicinity with the border of Hungary

       - the Curtici Free Area, The Arad Industrial Area

       - Expo Arad, The Exhibition Centre of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of the County of Arad.;

As far back as from ancient times, Arad was the place where important traffic highway have been crossed. That is why many travelers transited this town.