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1. Museum of ArtZone: Tulcea
Locality: Tulcea
Address: Grigore Antipa St. No. 2, Tulcea, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 240 513 249
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
Situated near to the Danube promenade, the museum shelters as permanent exhibition works with a great artistic value, belonging to the classics painters, sculpture and Romanian engravings, avant-garde paintings and the most important collection in the country of the painter Victor Brauner.
2. Museum of Folk Art and EthnographyZone: Tulcea
Locality: Tulcea
Address: 9 Mai Street, No. 4, Tulcea, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 240 516 204
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
The heritage of the Museum of Folk Art and Ethnography reflects through the diversity of collections, a model generated by unique cultural ethnical coexistence. The approx. 8,000 pieces represent an invaluable background decoded in ethnographic collections of the folk art, ethnography and photo-document.
3. Museum of History and ArchaeologyZone: Tulcea
Locality: Tulcea
Address: Gloriei Street – The independence monument park, Tulcea, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 240 513 626
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
The museum makes a incursion in the Ancient and Medieval Age to the history of North Dobrogea, exposing a rich archaeological heritage, approx. 90,000 archeological pieces, numismatic and epigraphic-being organized in collections: ceramics, bronze, carved pieces and epigraphics, ornaments, Paleo- Christian and Christian objects, numismatics.
4. Eco-touristical Center “Danube Delta”Zone: Tulcea
Locality: Tulcea
Address: 14 Noiembrie Street, No. 1, Tulcea, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 340 105 652
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
The Eco-turistical Center “Danube Delta” is a symbol of the Danube Delta and an important tourist attraction, offering visitors interactive programs, including video presentations to attract and educate visitors of all ages ina relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. The Eco-turistical Center “Danube Delta” offers the following types of information: information on the natural environment of the Danube Delta ecosystem, including presentations from RomanianDelta and Ukrainian Delta, ihtio-fauna, rocky region through a professional aquarium, flora and fauna, as well as information of the genesis and evolution of Danube Delta; information on the socio-cultural environment in the Danube Delta, including fishing gear and traditional aspects of life of fishermen, fishing settlements in the Danube Delta, about the conservation and preservation of fish, including information about eco-turistical routes, information about the two natural reservation in the Danube Delta, bird watching areas, sport fishing, etc.. as well as measures for preservation of the natural areas. Additional information can be obtained in each section by means of info-kiosk devices.
5. Museum of the Old Lighthouse from SulinaZone: Sulina
Locality: Sulina
Address: Sulina, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 240 513 231
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
Built by the European Committee of the Danube during 1869-1870, the lighthouse currently hosts a documentary exhibition on the work of The European Commisson of the Danube, the work room of Jean Bart in which one can find family photos, documents, letters and a part of his library, including the novel “Europolis” and at the top of the lighthouse is a lighthouse lens clock, mechanism made of bronze around it being arranged a platform for the movement, with balustrade.
6. Rustic household conserved in situ - EnisalaZone: Enisala
Locality: Enisala
Address: Enisala, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 240 516 204
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
Located in the center of town Enisala, the museum is a summary of the traditional household in Northern Dobrogea, Razim lake area, from the beginning of 20th century. The architectural ensemble includes: the house with pantry and several annexes in a typical household in this area: the kitchen and summer stove, animal stables, blackthorn, sheds, fountain. The house is traditional: the central verandah and two bedrooms. The house annexes have been reconstituted and now represents spaces for collection exhibition. Here can be seen: agricultural tools, typical Dobrogea painted carts; fishery tools, tools and products for cooperage, ironwork, bee culture, pottery, and instruments for the domestic textile industry.
7. Paleo-Christian Complex NiculitelZone: Monasteries Zone
Locality: Niculiţel
Address: Niculiţel, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 240 513 231
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
The complex is composed of a basilica, built during the Emperors Valens and Valentinianus and rebuilt in the period of Theodosius II, over a monumental Paleo-Christian crypt. The crypt, covered with a hemispheric dome with pendentives, included in the exterior tympanons, and shelters two martyrs' graves superimposed.
8. Casa PanaghiaZona: Babadag
Localitatea: Babadag
Adresa: Babadag, Jud. Tulcea
Tel: 0240 516 204
Program de vizitare: Mai-Septembrie, S-D: 10:00-18:00, L: închis • Octombrie-Aprilie, S-D: 08:00-16:00, L: închis
Casa Panaghia (în traducere - “Casa Fecioarei”), a fost construită în sec. XIX, şi a servit iniţial drept casă de rugăciune, apoi ca sediu al seminarului musulman şi, ulterior, grădiniţă pentru copiii oraşului. A devenit în anii '70 ai veacului trecut un obiectiv muzeal, iar din 1999 adăposteşte expoziţia de artă orientală. Sunt prezentate astfel publicului larg aspecte legate de arta tradiţională a turcilor şi tătarilor din Dobrogea: ţesături - covoare de rugăciune, şaluri de caşmir, covoare orientale - broderii, piese de port, vase de aramă pentru uz casnic şi de cult.
9. Memorial House “Panait Cerna”Zone: Macin Mountains
Locality: Cerna
Addresas Cerna, Tulcea County
Phone: +40 240 516 204
Opening hours: May-September, Daily: 10:00-18:00, Monday: closed • October-April, Daily: 08:00-16:00, Monday: closed
The memorial house of the poet Panait Cerna, a traditionalist Romanian poet, a worthy successor of Eminescu, who lived in the period 25 September 1881 - 8 April 1912. The museum has three halls exhibiting the life and work of the poet Panait Cerna: furniture, books, personal photos. In the other exhibition spaces has been reconstituted the traditional rural interior from this area, the visitors having the opportunity to found the beauty and authenticity of the furniture and fabrics from the beginning of the 20th century.
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1. Ibida FortressZone: Babadag
Situated: at the Western edge of the village Slava Rusa
Ibida fortress is situated on the valley of the stream Slava, at the western edge of the village Slava Rusa. The fortress has a surface of 24 ha, a belt of fortifications unfolded on a length of 2000 m, 33 towers and three gates. The fortress from the Slava Valley is doubled by a fortification about 3 hectares located on the hill Harda (in Turkish translation “the girl’s fortress”), whose north side is common with the one of the fortress. At thelatitude of 158 m, on the other height, located in the extension of the hill Harada is a stronghold of Roman-Byzantine period. There were identified vestiges and archaeological traces from the Middle Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Hallstatt, Latene from Roman times, the Roman-Byzantine and early medieval. Located in a superb picturesque area - proposed by a specialist as a landscape reserve, near a traditional community (Russian-Lippovans), Ibida fortress is one of the most important points of cultural North-Dobrogea tourism.
2. Noviodunum FortressZone: Macinului Mountains
Situated: at 2 km East of Isaccea on the right bank of the Danube
Noviodunum fortress is situated about 2 km East of the city Isaccea on the right bank of the Danube, Macinului Mountains area, at the point “Pontonul vechi” or “eski-kale” (in Turkish - “Old Fortress”). Due to its strategic position, in different historical periods, the fortress had a special military and commercial role. Built since the early years of the Principality era, on an old getic settlement, with a celtic name, the fortress was first the base to the Roman fleet from the Lower Danube (Classis Flavia Moesica), then the headquarters of major military units, but in the end, the crossing point to a military and commercial road that passes through Dobrogea, coming from Marcianopolis and the Danube limes. The Roman fortress, raised to the rank Municipium at the time of Severs, from which is preserved in a number of important edifices located on the bank of the Danube: thermal, dwellings, fragments of the enclosure wall, was a cosmopolitan urban center with a population made up of military veterans and civilians or Romanian Greek-Oriental. The fortress itself was doubled to the South and East by a big civil settlement, surrounded by a defensive system consisting of three waves of the earth with fosses. Destroyed by gothic and herules attacks around the year 267, the fortress is restored during the time of the emperors Aurelian and Probus, at a smaller size than the early fortress. The late fortress (4th-7th century) remain throughout the period the headquarters to the Danubian fleet - now called Classis Ripae Scythicae, and from the 4th century headquarters of Legio I Iovia Scythica. For more than two centuries (the beginning of 7th century - the third quarter of the 10th century) the urban life decays. At the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th century the fortress resumes its defensive function, the inside of the fortifications being recast by the Byzantines on the old Roman-Byzantine foundations. Conquered by the Tartars, then ruled for a period by Mircea cel Batran (Mircea the Old), the fortress was raveled after its conquest by the Turks in 1420. In the 16th century, on the fortress, the Turks built a camp surrounded with trapezoidal wave of earth that shelters a garrison.
3. Proslavita FortressZone: Nufaru
Situated in: Nufaru
Proslavita Fortress, located 12 km downstream from Tulcea, on the right bank of Sfantu Gheorghe branch, in the town Nufaru, Nufaru area. The fortress was built by the Byzantine Empire in an area with material traces from the hallstattian age, Latene Roman- Byzantine. In the Roman-Byzantine era on the bank of the Danube, at the end of the Nordic promontory, there functioned two surveillance towers of the Delta line. The archaeological research, much hampered by the fact that the current village Nufaru overlaps in full on the medieval fortress, led to unravel part of the precinct wall, the two massive towers, numerous houses, kilns and more of the necropolis for Christian inhumation; on the Danube bank, near the crossing with the ferry to the Danube Delta, has emerged the port installation of the fortress. The fortress functioned until the 14th century.
4. Salsovia FortressZone: Mahmudia
Situated in: Mahmudia
Vestiges of the Roman fortification Salsovia from the Mahmudia region are located in an area with housing tracks from the Bronze and Hellenistic Age. In the absence of systematic archaeological research the information about the history of the fortress are quite scarce. The military diploma from the reign of Nerva, the oldest epigraphic document known until now from Salsovia indicates the presence of a cavalry unit. The fortress functioned as another camp in the first half of the 3rd century (Itinerarium Antonini and Tabula Peutingeriana) later is mentioned here a cavalry unit in the Roman Legion - Legio I Iovia, then during the time of Constantinus II a unit composed of milites V Constantiani (Notite Dignitatum). The camp was very likely destroyed in the reign of Valens. In the feudal-era the the area is inhabited and is resumed early in Salsovia being monetary documented until at least the third quarter of the 11th century. Nearby the camp there is a wide rural settlement and a tumulary necropolis. If in 1872 the fortress walls, 2 m thick, was kept at a height of 3 m, explosions from the Second World War and the extraction of stone by local people, had strongly affected the ancient monument.
5. Halmyris FortressZone: Murighiol
Situated: at 2.5 km East of Murighiol
The fortress Halmyris, situated 2.5 km East of the village Murighiol, at the point known as “Bătăraia”, “Geneviz-Kaleh”, “Cetatea”or “Cetaţuia” on the road leading from Tulcea to Dunavatul de Jos. The fortress Halmyris is a Roman fortress founded in an area with traces of habitation from the 6th-5th century and 4th/3rd-2nd/1st century B.C., which saw several stages in its evolution: Roman land fortification (the last quarter of the 1st century); the stone headquarters camp of the legions I Italica and XI Claudia Pia Fidelis and station to the fleet Classis Flavia Moesia at the beginning of the 2nd century- the third quarter of the 3rd century A.D; the late Roman fortress the third quarter of the 3rd century the first quarter of 7th century A.D. the Roman-Byzantine fortress has a trapezoidal shape with a surface of about 2 hectares with 15 guns, three gates and three waves of defense. The main monuments unveiled and partly restored are: Poarta de Nord (North Gate), Poarta de nord-vest (North West Gate), Poarta de Vest (West Gate), the Thermae, “Edifice no. 1” and a paleochristian Basilica with the martyr crypt that hosted the remains of Epictet and Astion, and some christians martyred in the city during the time of Diocletian (in 290).
6. Enisala FortressZone: Enisala
Situated in: Enisala
The fortress Enisala is located near the village Enisala commune Sarichioi. It dominates the landscape, being built on the highest promontory situated between the lakes Babadag and Razim. The fortification was built in the 13th-14th century out of the same economic and strategic needs and it made part of the of the Genoese colony chain which included the cities of Chilia and Likostomion from the Danube Delta, Cetatea Alba(White Fortress) from the mouths of the Dniester, Caffa and Balaclava in southern Crimea. Between1397-1416, during the reign of Mircea the Old, the fortress Enisala was part of the defensive system of the Romanian Country. After the conquest of Dobrogea by the Turks, in the fortress is installed an Ottoman military garrison. Subsequently, due to advancement of Turkish domination beyond t mouth of the Danube to the of the White Fortress and Chilia and forming of the sand cordons that separates the Lake Razim from the Black Sea, the castle was abandoned because it no longer meets the strategic and economic interests of the Turks. The fortress itself, polygonal shaped, occupies an area approximately 0.3 ha. The fortress walls, built of limestone blocks, are provided on three sides with defense towers.
7. Dinogetia FortressZone: Macin Mountains
Situated: at 4 km from Garvan
The Dinogetia Fortress is located 4 km far from the village Garvan in the locality Jijila, in the Macin Mountains area, on an little island (Popina) called by the locals Bisericuţa (“The Little Church”). Initially a Getic-dacian and then a Roman settlement, the fortress was built in the time of the Emperor Diocletian (285-305 A.D.). Its name was first mentioned by Ptolomeu in his well known work “Geographia” (2nd century). Destroyed in 559 A.D. by a Hun-Bulgarian tribe, the fortress was rebuilt and consolidated in 10th – 12th century. The fortress was discovered during the archeological researches started in 1939 and resumed after the Second World War. The most important structure is the basilica, found in the middle of the fortress, which is the oldest on the territory of our country.
8. Argamum FortressZone: Jurilovca
Situated: at 6 km East of Jurilovca
The fortress Orgame/Argamum is located 6 km East from the village Jurilovca up to the shore of the lake Razim in the point called “Dolojman” or “La Cetate”. The fortress, the very first settlement on the territory of present Romania, mentioned in an ancient source (Hecataios, Periegesis) was established in the middle 7th century B.C. by Greeks from Minor Asia, with a least one generation earlier than the fortress of Istros/Histria, in an area which holds signs of habitation from the Bronze and Iron Age. From the archaic period dates an impressive funeral complex from the fortress necropolis which belonged to an important character from the first generation of colonists; the classical period is exemplified by the presence of a segment of the precinct wall, the presence of large structures and furnaces located towards the head of the promontory, a set of funeral tombs joined on familiar reasons in the necropolis of the fortress; the late Hellenic and early roman eras are represented by some vestiges kept on the Argamens plateau, past the system of defense of the roman–byzantine fortress. The Roman-Byzantine fortress had an area of approximately 2.6 ha, an apparent triangular shape with eight towers, six spurs (bastions) and two main gates.
9. Aegyssus FortressZone: Tulcea
Situated: on Monument Hill in the East of the city Tulcea
The archeological discovery, but also the Celtic origin of the name, derived from the legendary founder Caspios Aegisos, pleads for the construction of the fortress at the beginning of the 4th century B.C. At the beginning of the 2nd year A.D. the fortress was included in the Danubian defense system. In the 4th-5th century the fortress keeps his status of military stronghold, and in the Justinian era it is rebuild, in the condition of the monumental effort for the refortification of the defense system. The fortress located on the Monument Hill is first mentioned in Notia Episcopatum on the list of the 15 episcopal residences from Dobroudja. The first evidence of the settlement and of the fortress as Tulcsa was recorded in an Ottoman customs register from 1515-1571. In the 17th century is mentioned as a small fortress with 7 towers, built on a rocky bank of the Danube, which controlled the river traffic.
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1. Celic Dere MonasteryZone: Monasteries Zone
Situated: at 30 km from Tulcea, between villages Posta and Telita
Celic-Dere monastery is situated 30 km from Tulcea, between Posta and Telita villages, in the monastery area, on the Cilicului Valley, built in the middle of the 19th century as a nun’s monastery. The monastery has the aspect of a village with scattered farms, where is particularly remarked the abbess house, which houses the museum of ecclesiastical art and the church. The church, built in its present shape at the beginning of the 20th century, work of the architect Toma Dobrescu, is among the few storied building of its kind in Romania, with awinter church in the basement and a summer church at the first floor; the monastery's museum, organized in the former workshop of religious painting and weaving carpets, is the holder an important treasure of cult objects, including 43 religious books printed between 1643-1843.
2. Cocos MonasteryZone: Monasteries Zone
Situated: on the Cocosului Hill at 282 m altitude
It is the first building on the territory of Dobrogea occupied by the ottomans. It includes a collection of history and art, amphoras, roman fibula, vestiges from local diggings on an ancient hearth, precious objects, gobelinstapestry, paintings and books from 19th century. The entry to the monastery is guarded by a massive stone steeple, high of 30 m. The building is a quadrangle. The east side includes the steeple, cells, the abbey and an oratory. In the middle is the new church with three towers and to the North the old wood cells. West Hall is specific to the popular Romanian architecture and declared monument of architecture.
3. Saon MonasteryZone: Monasteries Zone
Situated: at 11 km from Tulcea to Niculitel
Saon Monastery, convent for nuns, located in the Monastery area, was built in 1864 as a small hermitage of monks from the monastery Celic-Dere. Since 1881 it became a stand-alone monastery. This includes: church, chapel, cells, and a windmill. The church has the patron “Ascension of the Lord”, whose foundation has been laid by the bishop Nifon of the Lower Danube, and was built in 1921.
4. Uspenia MonasteryZone: Babadag
Situated: at 3 km South-West of village Slava Rusa
Uspenia Monastery, located in the Babadag area, is a friary located 3 km southwest of the village Slava Rusă, and was founded sometime in the 18th century by a group of believers from Slava Rusa, who built above the village a wooden church and have retired to live there. The monastery has been since 1848, Bishop's office, under the authority of the Metropolitan from White Fountain (Moldova), and subsequently metropolitan headquarters. In the secondpart of the 19th century the wooden church was replaced by a brick one, dedicated in 1883, with the patron Assumption of the Virgin. During the Ottoman domination of Dobrogea, the monastery enjoyed a series of privileges, so that in 1877, at the Uspenia monastery were registered 200 frocks. After integration of Dobrogea in the Romanian state, despite the fact that the old privileges were retained, the number of monks has decreased dramatically, reaching only 60 at the beginning of the 20th century, for in the present here live only 7 frocks. Every year, the patron monastery - on 29 August (Assumption of the Virgin) – allows the community lippovan meetings in the country and abroad.
5. Vovidenia MonasteryZone: Babadag
Situated: at the edge of the South-East of the village Slava Rusa
Vovidenia monastery is situated at the south-eastern edge of the village Slava RusA in the Babadag area. Here is a lippovanian-monastic community of nuns. The church, now called “The Smallest Church”, was built in the middle of the 19th century. Approximately after 20 years, in 1866, to this small monastery is added a new church, much more imposing. In the present here live about 40 nuns and sisters.
6. St. Nicholas Hierarch CathedralZone: Tulcea
Address: Str. Progresului, No. 37, Tulcea, Tulcea County
In the heart of Tulcea city, at crossing of the Frumoasă, Babadag and Progresului Streets, lays the St. Nicholas Church, Tulcea town’s Cathedral. The monumental building, in Byzantine style in the form of a cross, dominates the surrounding grandeur and in the days of celebration the existence is made known as far as great distance throughout the special melodious sound of its famous bells, cast in Bavaria in 1882. The painting of interior walls, in Renaissance style, was executed in 1905-1906 by Professor D. Marinescu a renown painter from the School of Fine Arts from Bucharest. In 1867, going to Constantinople, the former King Carol I stopped at Tulcea and, visiting St. Nicholas Church, which was then under construction, donated to the church a set of Holy Vases.
7. “Sfinţii Voievozi” ChurchZone: Chilia
Situated: in Chilia Veche, Tulcea County
"Sfinţii Voievozi" Church from Chilia zone – Chilia Veche (Old Chilia) Village - was built in 1854, with the permission of the Ottoman Empire wanted to master at that time and the mouths of the Danube which has accepted the request of residents who could not go to town New Chilia, over the Danube, then when the river was frozen. Community members raised the church of an Orthodox rite with barehands, carrying over the Danube River sand and stone. The height of the cult place reaches 52 meters, making it to the second church in the country as hight, as the Black Church in Braşov. During the Second World War, the church "Sfinţii Voievozi" was a military observer, many deep cracks in masonry dating from that time.
8. “Adormirea Maicii Domnului” ChurchZone: Monastaries Zone
Situated: in Teliţa, Tulcea County
The “Assumption of the Virgin” Church is located in the Monasteries Zone, in Teliţa, serves to the Orthodox Christian cult and was built between 1902-1907. Its uniqueness in the county lies in the fact that is the only church with six towers, not finding another in the country, but in Harsova. The building style is reminiscent of Moscow churches and the architectural plans of the church are in accordance with the Pecerskaya Lavra in Kiev church - in the shape of the cross and with 6 towers.
9. Paleo-christian Basilica NiculitelZone: Monasteries Zone
Situated: in Niculiţel, Jud. Tulcea
The complex consists of a paleo-christian basilica, high above the graves of martyrs. The four martyrs Zotikos, Attalos, Camasis and Philippe were identified in a collective coffin at the top of the crypts. It was built at theend of the 4th century B.C.
10. “Ali Gazi Paşa” MosqueZone: Babadag
Situated: on Str. Geamiei No. 1, Babadag, Tulcea County
Built at the beginning of 17th century - with rectangular plan, with the church porch with monumental arches and a 30 meters high minaret – the mosque is the oldest monument of Islamic art in Romania. It is located in the centre of the Babadag city. The construction is of stone and brick. The interior walls are decorated with verses from the Koran, written in Arabic and the ceiling with göbek (central rosette in relief) is wrapped in wood. At the entrance is the fountain Kalaigi, used by pilgrims and believers for the ritual of washing their feet, before entering to pray. The fountain has been dried for several years, probably due to destruction of the underground water supply system from a great distance, cleverly worked by the Turks. In the mosque court is also the founder’s mausoleum, an austere monument, built from a stone of yellowish color, with the dome arched. In the mosk are carried on divine services specific to the Muslim cult, performed by a Turkey imam, to which participates members from the Muslim community from Babadag.
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