Constance full of history and charm, beyond the waves…
From museums or mosques, historical sites and natural micro-reservations to the well-known shows loved by the Dolphinarium, you will not miss the tourist attractions in Constanța.

Constanta Casino

In 1898, the Beauty Commission of Constanța decided to create an artificial cliff in the middle of which to build the new Casino. The actual work began in 1903, and on August 15, 1910, St. Mary's Day, the Art Nouveau jewel was completed. The festive moment was attended by Prince Ferdinand, Prime Minister Ionel Brătianu and other famous personalities of the time. The casino in Constanța was built after [...]

Genoese lighthouse

If you walked at least once on the seafront in Constanța, you must have walked past the Genoese Lighthouse, which, although an important objective, can go unnoticed. Located between the Casino and the former Hotel Carol, today the Navy Command, the Genoese Lighthouse received its name out of respect for the Genoese, who are considered to be "masters of the seas", [...]

Constanta Aquarium

We are left with the thought of marine life, that we are only a few meters from the foamy waves and we pass on the list of tourist objectives that you should not miss in Constanța and the Aquarium. The idea of setting up an aquarium in Constanța belonged to Admiral Bălănescu, a proposal he expressed in the Naval League [...]

Constanta Dolphinarium

The dolphinarium in Constanța attracts curious people all year round, being the most visited tourist attraction in the city. Located at the intersection of Mamaia Boulevard and Soveja Street, the Dolphinarium was first opened to the public on June 1, 1972, being at that time the first museum of this type in Romania and in Southeast Europe. The place remains unique [...]

The statue of Mihai Eminescu

The other end of the cliff is guarded by the statue of Mihai Eminescu. The great Romanian poet, who spent a few days at the end of the 19th century in the attic of the “Regina” hotel, today, “Intim”, looks at the sea and is watched by tourists walking on the seafront of Constanta. The work is the work of Oscar Han and was inaugurated, with pomp, [...]

Ion Jalea Sculpture Museum

The "ION JALEA" SCULPTURE MUSEUM is located in the historic area of the city, at the end of Elisabeta Boulevard, a few steps from the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. The institution is hosted by a beautiful building built in Brancovean style at the beginning of the 20th century. Inside the museum are exhibited over 200 beautiful works donated by the sculptor in 1969 [...]

Navy Day

Officialized as the onomastics of the Romanian sailors on August 15, 1902, by Saint Mary the Great, the Romanian Navy Day fully certified, for more than a century, the character of an authentic festival of the sea and seafaring spirituality. Originally conceived as a national celebration, the sailors' festival attracts attention, through its very attractive and at the same time picturesque program. The day [...]

Tomis marina

The tourist port of Tomis has a special charm. At the northern end of the seafront it descends to the modern marina, which in recent years has attracted a large number of yachts through the modern facilities it offers. Framed in a more recent chapter of history, the port of Tomis was intended to be a natural continuation of the great [...]

Neversea Festival 

The Neversea Festival is the largest music festival that takes place on a beach in Romania. It takes place every year on Neversea Beach in Constanța, near Modern Beach. The first edition took place in 2017, and the festival reaches new records every year. Neversea is a new festival that takes place for three days [...]

Prince Sutu's Villa

If you look at it carefully, from the beach or from the sea, from the sea, it reminds you of an Arabian palace, on the southern shores of the warm Mediterranean. Anyway, the view on the high shore strip on which Constanţa is outlined, from the majestic, classic and white hotel “Carol”, passing later on the unmistakable silhouette of [...]

Armenian Church „St. Maria "

As long as there will be at least one Armenian in Romania, the church will exist and will preserve the memory of the Armenians ", says the priest Avedis Mandalian, who served in Constanța for 26 years. At the 2011 census, the Armenian community in Constanța counted 230 souls. Almost all so many Armenians lived [...]

Wind Street

140 steps descending to the sea and the wingspan of a traveler - that's all it takes to fully embrace and admire the Vântului street in Constanța. The narrowest pedestrian artery in the Constanta Peninsula retains the same charm for which the famous street of "Sforii" was one of the tourist attractions of Brasov. Stradela Vântului, [...]

Greek Church "Transfiguration"

The Greek Church "Change in the Face", the oldest place of worship of the ancient city of Tomis Cruci, crescents and stars rises to the sky of Old Constance. Perhaps the most representative testimony of multiculturalism and ethnic mosaic in the history of the seaside city, the denominational octagon of the Peninsula today tells the story of the tolerance of places where, in antiquity, [...]

Constanța Veche City Hall

The Romanian story of Constanța begins on November 23, 1878, and the seaside town goes into another era of its history. After the old Kustenge becomes a Romanian city, following the Treaty of Berlin, and the responsibility of the small town is handed over to the Romanian officials, in the old fortress of Tomis a page of premieres opens: the first [...]

Gunkia "Hunkiar"

The last Ottoman heritage of Constanța: The “Hunkiar” Mosque You find it somewhat surprising, if you have the curiosity to go down a narrow and dirty street, flanked by places with cheap but fast food, among sweet and sour smells of spices and fried meat. Nothing announces it, not even the entrance: now, you have to go through the terrace of a [...]

The statue of Ovid

The statue of Ovid. The oldest symbol, from the oldest area of old Constanta The statue of Ovid, before the construction of the Great Mosque, between 1910-1913 (photo: Facebook / Constanta… of old) The public square in the small town by the sea was named, as was customary in Romania, Independence Square. Here were some Greek pubs, [...]

Museum of National History and Archeology

For the cultural identity and history of the municipality, respectively of Constanța county, the Museum of National History and Archeology of Constanța is all the more important as today it remains the only place where tourists, especially foreigners, can find information about the history of these lands. . On the other hand, this museum must be seen from [...]

The House of Lions

The House of Lions. A century of discretion and oblivion with Armenian, Hungarian and Romanian nababi The House of Lions and the fame of the aristocrat Loniay, a cohabitation from Constanţa during the First World War, is another unknown story of the city. After the capitulation of Constanta and the installation of the German administration of Marshal Mackensen, on October 22, 1916, the House of Lions of [...]

Casa Embiricos

Casa Embiricos. History on the Constanța-New York route, present through ruins… Source: www.info-sud-est.ro Many people in Constanţa were not at all impressed by the drama of the British transatlantic ship "Titanic", sunk in the cold waters of the Atlantic in the capricious spring of 1912. The idea of traveling by ocean, in luxurious conditions, with comfortable sleeping cabins, with restaurants and [...]

"Regina" Hotel and "Britain" Cabaret

Hotel „Regina“ and Cabaret „Britania“, business meetings and night entertainment on the same street of Constanța Veche Cabaret „Britania“: „Moulin Rouge” from Constanța Veche Today it is a dull ruin, of a dirty gray, with hide windows, broken and with a yard, once a terrace, untidy and full of garbage. It looks more like a warehouse [...]

Roman Catholic Basilica of St. Anton of Padua

Lily flowers for the Latin spirit of Old Constanța: Roman Catholic Basilica of St. Anton of Padua Nicolae Titulescu Street, narrow and beautifully lined with buildings of all times, abounds in white. People with lilies in their hands head, passing in front of the statue of the Latin poet Ovid, to the imposing place of worship at number 11. It is a holiday […]

Synagogue from Constanța

Constanța Synagogue: Silences guilty for two decades To reach the ruins of the Constanţa Synagogue, on CA Rosetti Street no. 2, you have to walk carefully, from any direction you come, broken sidewalks, collapsed buildings, of which only the hideous and extremely fragile facades, noisy gangs of dogs and often […]

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