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The Greek Church
The Greek church "Change in the Face" is the first church in the city, being built in 1868, with the contribution of the Greek community. The story of the beautiful church began a century and a half ago, when Dobrogea was part of the Ottoman Empire, and marked the "birth" of the first Christian place of worship in Constanta. The construction of the church started in 1862 with the agreement […]
Continue readingThe Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
The Orthodox Archbishop's Cathedral "Saints Peter and Paul", the largest cult building in the city, was built between 1883-1885. The cathedral dedicated to Saint Paul and Paul is the largest and most important Orthodox place of worship in Dobrogea, being also known as the Archbishop's Cathedral of Tomis. The church is located in the area […]
Continue readingHotel Palace
Built on the beach in 1914, in the vicinity of the Casino, the Palace Hotel was from the beginning a high class hotel for its time, owned by Baron Edgar de Marçay, one of the shareholders of the Monte Carlo casino. Palace was the hotel for gambling enthusiasts. Since its inception, […]
Continue readingTribunal, Royal Palace
Built between 1904-1906, with the same architect as the Casino, the Royal Palace was intended for the royal family as a summer residence. The Royal Palace of Constanţa was the first royal residence on the Black Sea and construction began in 1902, being completed in 1906, the year in which King Carol I celebrated four decades of reign […]
Continue readingHouse with lions
The imposing building by the sea was built according to the plans of the Romanian architect Ion Berindei, between 1895 and 1898. The house with Lei and the fame of the aristocrat Loniay, a cohabitation from Constanţa during the First World War, is another unknown story of the city. The house with lions became, after the First World War, for a short time the headquarters of […]
Continue readingGenoese Lighthouse
The lighthouse was built around 1300 by the Genoese who traded in the port and restored between 1858-1860 by the French engineer of Armenian origin Artin Aslan. The monument has a height of 16 meters, octagonal shape and is built of blocks of natural stone, carved on all sides and joined together with […]
Continue readingThe Royal Villa
Named the Royal Palace of Mamaia during the monarchy, the building was part of the property of Princess Elena, the mother of King Michael. There the young king spent part of his childhood summers. The Royal Palace was designed by the Italian architect Mario Stoppa and built by Carlo Actis, under the direct direction of the architect Constantin D. Dobrescu. The works of the great summer residence have […]
Continue readingStatue of Anghel Saligny
The work of the sculptor Oscar Han, an extremely important but also controversial artist, the silhouette of the character who definitively marked the history of Constanţa and Dobrogea looks towards the port. On the pedestal of the statue is mounted a marble plaque with the text: ANGHEL SALIGNY 1854-1925 He designed and led the construction and modernization of the port of Constanța (1899-1910) foreshadowing its development […]
Continue readingThe statue of Victory
Perhaps the most representative monument of the socialist period is the statue of Victoria. The Victory Monument is made in the style specific to socialist realism and glorifies the anti-fascist struggle of the Romanian people. It was unveiled in 1968, and its creator was Boris Caragea. In the history of Romanian art, the name of the sculptor Boris Caragea represents controversy, glory, destruction, denial, then return […]
Continue readingBust of Mihai Eminescu
The statuary complex dedicated to the great poet was unveiled in 1934, has a height of 3m and is the work of sculptor Oscar Han. The monument is located near the sea, on the seafront of the Casino, thus fulfilling one of the wishes expressed by the artist in the lyrics of the poem: "I have one more longing…" "I have one more longing: In the silence of the evening […]
Continue readingStatue of Queen Elizabeth
Made in 1937 by the sculptor Ion Jalea, paid for by public subscription, the statuary group is composed of two elements: "The statue of Queen Elizabeth" and "The harp muse". In the 50s, the communist regime decided to remove the statue and replace it with another work by the same artist: "Archer resting". In 1975 the song "The Muse with the Harp" was […]
Continue readingThe Statue of Ovid
Work of the famous Italian sculptor Ettore Ferrari, it is an emblematic statue of the city and probably the most important monument of Constanța. The statue was unveiled in August 1887 in the presence of local personalities of the time and was a festive event for the entire city. The bronze statue depicts the writer Ovid in a pose […]
Continue reading"Ion Jalea" Sculpture Museum
ION JALEA MUSEUM is one of the few cultural buildings in our country dedicated exclusively to sculpture. The institution is hosted by a beautiful building built in Brancovean style at the beginning of the 200th century. Inside the museum are exhibited over 1969 beautiful works donated by the sculptor in 1984 and his family in XNUMX, after his death. At the ground floor […]
Continue readingConstanta Museum of Art
With a patrimony of over 7000 Romanian works of art, the Art Museum represents a reference point on the cultural map of the city, through the value and importance of the exhibits. The basic exhibition of the Constanta museum is structured on monographic nuclei / halls of masters and suggests a complex image of the creation of each one, but also of the directions of evolution from […]
Continue readingMarine Museum Constanta
The permanent exhibition is structured in chronological order and includes four sections: ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary history. In the first rooms, three-dimensional objects - bas-reliefs, molds based on epigraphic documents, coins, graphic works, transmit information about the beginning of navigation on them in the space between the mountains, the Danube and the Sea. The generous space of over 10.000 sqm is organized in 22 […]
Continue readingMuseum of History Constanta
The Museum of National History and Archeology is the second most important museum, after the Museum of History in Bucharest. The massive and imposing construction that dominates the entire square was built between 1912-1921 under the guidance of the architect Victor Ştefănescu. The museum is structured on three levels, on the ground floor are the Treasury rooms, dominated by the statue of the Glycon snake. Within the other floors of […]
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