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On the Constanța seafront, Oana Florică placed a form that rises: “Aspiration” draws the eye toward the horizon, not toward the plinth. The composition is vertical, the material ho…
Vasile Călin Filip cut in “Waiting” a figure that stands, does not run: dropped shoulders, a closed volume, a pause held in the material. It is the opposite of the sports statues o…
Florentin Sîrbu names his work “Genesis”: matter gathering into form, voids and solids, a tension of beginning, not of portrait. He is not looking for a recognized figure; he is lo…
Stavru Dumitriu bought the land in 1912, when the lot was still at the edge of the city. Only in 1920, after the plans of the architect Edgar de Goue, did the Grand Hotel open: doz…
Gheorghe Fărcășiu and Iliya Yankov worked together a piece that looks like a site fragment: forms of a vessel, a wall, a sign, without copying a museum piece. The title, “Archaeolo…
Beside the Aurora hotel in Mamaia, Olga Porumbaru's sculpture has stood since the early 1970s: stone volumes that keep the rhythm of the wave, without mimicking a score. The author…
In front of the former Hotel București in Mamaia, Spiru Sabiescu placed in 1970 a stone bird worked a year earlier. No plaque, no signature. For decades people passed toward the be…
Scarlat Lambrino came upon the “Great Gate” in 1933; in 1987, further works brought it back to light. It is the main mouth of the fortress from the time when the Empire, at the end…
Sarmuzac cooks in the courtyard of The Old Border hotel, in Vama Veche, a few steps from the beach. It is a local gastronomic point: Dobrogean home recipes, not the village night-b…
At the corner of Regina Elisabeta Boulevard, close to the harbour, Ada Geo Medrea cut in limestone a man at the helm, nearly three metres high. The work is for sailors, not for a n…
On 17 November 1872 the Flotilla School opened at Galați, the first organized form of training for the people on Romanian ships. From there the thread runs to today’s Naval Academy…
Alexandru Ghinea was born on 6 February 1953, at Bistrița in Mehedinți, watching the ships on the Danube. He did the Naval Petty Officers’ Military School in Constanța, was posted…
Beside Tropaeum Traiani, the altar at Adamclisi was raised at the beginning of the second century, in Trajan’s time, for the soldiers who fell in the battles in Dobrogea. It is not…
Not far from the Cave of Saint John Cassian, the limestone forms a natural semicircle, like a cavea. Locals call it an amphitheatre; it has no stages, no tickets, only rock steps a…
In the perimeter of old Tomis there remains a spectacle building from the second and third centuries: stone, a semicircular plan, seats cut in the slope. Here the inhabitants gathe…
Under the Continental Forum Hotel lie, from the excavations of 1988–1989, remains of an amphitheatre and a basilica from the second to fifth centuries. The access gate toward the a…
Discovery The ensemble stands on the north-western slope of Tibișir Hill, at the south-western edge of Murfatlar, above the former Carasu Valley, today the Danube–Black Sea Canal.…
Cornel Medrea (1888–1956) modelled in stone, in 1963, two figures standing close to each other, as in a word said halfway. The ensemble was placed in 1964 beside the Victoria compl…
At the entrance to Mamaia, Aqua Magic opened in 2003, the first large water park on the Constanța shore. It has slides, a wave pool and zones for small children, besides the standi…
In Limanu, Arome Dobrogene cooks for family tables: pies, stews, fish when it is in season, garden salads, house wine if it is offered. The setting is that of a village in the sout…
A kilometre north-east of Beștepe, at Piatra lui Boboc, the traces of a Getic dava are kept. In older literature the place — and the settlement beside it — also appears as Salsovia…
At Agighiol, in the commune of Valea Nucarilor, the hills near Tulcea hide a settlement where Getae and Greeks lived side by side. On the ground you see undulations, potsherds and…
On the hills near Telița, at the foot of Măcin, the traces of a fortified settlement known as Edirlen can be read. It is a field site, not a museum: banks, stones and a position th…
Bănuții Dobrogei are stacks of limestone in the Dobruja Gorges, near Târgușor: superimposed discs and slabs that, from afar, look like giant coins set one on another. They are a pl…
In the park in front of the Ion Jalea Museum, at the crossing of Boulevard Elisabeta and Arhiepiscopiei Street, the relief “People with Bulls” has stood since 1964. The author is I…
On the façade of the Sports Hall in Constanța, at Tomis 102-104, Zoe Băicoianu (1910-1987) stretched in 1960 a relief with young people in motion. The piece is on the list of histo…
At Gate 1 of the port stand the remains of a 5th-century basilica, still in use in the 6th. It is an early Christian hall, raised when Tomis, a provincial capital in Scythia Minor,…
After 1878, when Dobrogea passed to Romania, Constanța began to gather books for the public. The first attempts belong to the end of the nineteenth century, together with the schoo…
The library in Sulina bears the name of Jean Bart (Eugeniu Botez) and has functioned since 1897, when the port was full of clerks of the European Commission of the Danube. Since 19…
Between 1905 and 1911, in the centre of Constanța, the church with the dedication of the Dormition of the Mother of God was built, for a Romanian parish that was growing with the p…
Beidaud is a plateau village, in the north of Tulcea. The church in the centre bears the dedication of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas and was raised at the beginni…
The Church of the Annunciation is a new house of worship, raised when the neighbourhood around it grew and the faithful no longer fitted in the churches of the centre. The architec…
In Oltina the royal doors bear the year 1863 and the names of Matiu Nicolaevici, his wife Caterina and their sons Dimitr, Nicolai and Teodor, come from Silistra. In the village 186…
The feast falls on 24 June, the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, when the yard fills and there is a morning service. The church is contemporary, in a neo-Byzantine line, thought…
People in Tulcea call it the “Clock Church” or the “Bulgarian Church”. The Bulgarian community replaced in 1857 a wooden church that the floods in the New Market area kept damaging…
At the crossing of Ștefan Mihăileanu and Călărași streets, on one of the high points of Constanța, the parish founded in 1919 raised between 1934 and 1937 the church of the Holy Em…
Gârliciu stands on the right bank of the Danube, in the north-western corner of Constanța County. The Church of Saint Nicholas is in the middle of the village: here people marry, b…
In the village of Agighiol, Valea Nucarilor commune, the community built between 1858 and 1860 a church of stone and brick with the dedication of the Holy Archangels. It is among t…
On 1 November 2001 the “Holy Trinity” parish was founded, beside the House of Culture, for the faithful of the new centre, not of the peninsula. Between 2002 and 2004 a chapel func…
Horia made itself in 1902 a little church of adobe and reed. It was consecrated a year later and held services until the village could build more lastingly. From 1925 the brick wor…
The Church of Saint Haralambos serves an urban parish, not the coastal pilgrimage. The building is modern, with Byzantine volumes and an interior thought for Sunday service, choir…
In the Viile Noi neighbourhood, the church on the street that leads toward Medeea was raised in 1935 by the German community, with Gothic lines — a sharp tower, high windows, a pla…
On Nicolae Iorga Street no. 12, the parish began a new church in 1915, to the plans of Nicolae Paveliu. The war cut the site; works resumed after 1923, and the painting, with the p…
In Tăbăcărie Park stands a wooden church in the Maramureș manner, with a porch and a sharp tower. The foundation stone was laid in 1994; the first services were held on the feast o…
In Pantelimon, 44 Christian families raised the church at the end of the nineteenth century and consecrated it in 1898. Each gave money, days of labour or cartloads of stone. It is…
Saint Spyridon is a neighbourhood church from the second half of the twentieth century, raised when Constanța was growing beyond the old centre. The plan is of Byzantine inspiratio…
When Constanța spread with new neighbourhoods, a church dedicated to Saint Basil the Great, one of the Church Fathers, also appeared. The plan is neo-Byzantine, with simple façades…
On the bank of the Chilia branch, the towers of more than 40 metres are seen from the village before you catch the door. The Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel was b…
Vulturu appears on maps from 1854; around 1861 it was called Kartal, then Cartal, and since 1933 it has borne today’s name. The Church of the Holy Voivodes had a first building of…
On Callatis Street no. 1, close to the sea, the Armenians of Constanța keep the church of “Saint Mary”. The community is attested in Dobrogea from the fifteenth and sixteenth centu…
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