Mamaia | Eforie | Costinesti | Mangalia

Constanta lies where once Tomis stood. Tomis was a Greek colony in the province of Scythia on the Black Sea's shore, founded around 500 BC for commercial exchanges with local Daco-Getic populations. Tomis was later renamed to Constantiana in honor of Constantia, the half-sister of Constantine the Great (274-337). The city lay at the seaward end of the Great Wall of Traian, and has evidently been surrounded by fortifications of its own. In 1878, after the Romanian War of Independence, Constanta and the rest of Northern Dobrugea were ceded by the Ottoman Empire to Romania. The city became Romania's main seaport and transit point for much of Romania's exports.

In the vicinity there are mineral springs, the sea-bathing also attracts thousands of visitors in summer. Activities include volleyball, football, tennis, water-skiing, paragliding, scuba diving, horseback-riding, etc. Open-air restaurants, discos, bars and cabarets offer a wide variety of entertainments. Accommodations range from numerous hotels, villas and bungalows, to campsites.

The A2 freeway, linking Constanta to Bucharest, is almost completed and makes the city easy to approach. The city is also served by an airport, the Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport. The Constanta Seaport, protected by breakwaters, with a lighthouse at the entrance, is well defended from the North winds. The Black Sea squadron of the Romanian fleet is stationed here. A large canal (the Danube-Black Sea Canal) connects the Danube River to the Black Sea at Constanta.

Constanta has a typical mediterranean climate with four distinct seasons. Summers are warm, dry and sunny with a July average of 23 °C. Constanta rarely experiences very hot days often found in the interior, because of the moderating influence of the Black Sea. Summers settle around June 15 and end in late September. Autumns start late September, and they're long and relatively warm, nights are still tropical - the temperature is over 20°C. September is often warmer than June, because of the heat accumulated by the Black Sea. Winter is much balmier compared to other cities in southern Romania. It has very little snow but can be very windy. Winter arrives much later than in the interior and December weather is often mild with high temperatures reaching 12 °C. Spring arrives early but it's very cool. Often in April and May the Black Sea coast is the coolest place in Romania, excluding off course the high mountains.

The Romanian Navy Museum is worth a visit. It shows thousands of replicas of various types of ships proper to the Romanian military and commercial navy since its beginnings till today, alongside navigation instruments, documents, books and photos, white and fire arms, anchors, propellers, lighthouse lenses, flags and colors, pictures, various exhibits of a high scientific and documentary value.

The Tomis Port is the touristy harbor of Constanta, situated in the Old City, with an excellent and arranged alley on a cliff that goes near to the Old Casino Building and Aquarium, and next descending to the "Modern" beach. This beach represents a sea territory surrounded by dams, where you will see yachts, boats and steamers. Among the boats sheltered there it is not unusual to see some from the other end of the world - New Zeeland or Australia. Some boats offer cruises along the coast.

The Farul Genovez is a historic lighthouse built between 1858 and 1860. This 12 m high octagonal stone tower with lantern and gallery is inactive since 1913. This historic lighthouse was restored in 1948 and has become a fairly well known tourist attraction. It stands near the Casino on a headland projecting into the Black Sea north of the harbor but close to Constanta's downtown business district.

The Paris Casino was built in 1909 and was inaugurated in 1910 in the presence of prince Ferdinand. The designs were made by the French architect Daniel Renard. The building has been the most representative in town for decades, a real symbol for Constanta. It was also the only representative of 'art nouveau' style in Romania. On the top of the building, the decorations consists of old ships representations. Inside there are staircases and imposing banisters, covered columns and marble girdles on the walls. In 1985-1987 the building was restored, the furniture was entirely changed.

The Aquarium is located nearby the Casino. It presents the aquatic fauna, made of marine and sweet water fish, exotic and Romanian fish, also marine and sweet water invertebrates. It shows over 60 species from coastal lakes, Danube Delta, Black Sea, from tropical and subtropical areas in the world. Here there is an important collection of sturgeons, with all the species that live in the Black Sea. Representative are large fish (1,5-2 m) which live in captivity in the Aquarium,  for more than 15-18 years.

The Dolphinarium is a part of the Constanta Natural Sciences Museum Complex. For the first time, they have succeeded in rearing and training in captivity the three species of dolphins found in the Black Sea. There are two seawater pools, one indoor and the other outdoors, which are open to visitors during all year round. One can see demonstrations with the trained dolphins (from the Black Sea) and with sea-lions from South America. The Micro-Reservation and the Exotic Birds Exhibition is a part of the Constanta Natural Sciences Museum Complex and it is located nearby the Dolphinarium. The mini-zoo offers the possibility of viewing various terrestrial and aquatic animals. One can see here specific samples of the fauna and flora from the Danube Delta and the County of Constanta. The Exotic and decor Birds Exhibition is a delight for those who love nature. Here one can admire various species of parrots (Melopsittacus undulatus, Nymphicus hollandicus and Anasonia aestiva), as well as Chaffinches (Pyromelena orix) and Thistle-finches (Carduelis carduelis).

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Mamaia is the biggest resort on the Romanian Black Sea shore. It is situated immediately north-east of Constanta. Mamaia has almost no full time residents, being populated mostly during the summer. Mamaia is 8 km in length and only 300 m in width, being a strip of land between the Black Sea and Lake Siutghiol. The resort was officially open in 1906. Mamaia has an 8km long by about 100m wide beach with most of the hotels located in close proximity or directly on the beach. The resort has tennis courts, mini golf, an outdoor theatre and hosts every year the Mamaia Music Festival. Through major developments throughout the past couple of years, Mamaia has transformed itself into a major summer destinations of Europe.

Lake Siutghiol is the perfect place for water sports or cruises to the nearby Ovidiu Island, the place where many believe the great Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso was buried. Another great place to visit is The Vacation Village.  Here you can have fun in one of the rides, can buy souvenirs or dine at one of the twenty or so restaurants with dishes specific to various country regions.

The beach season is at its best between mid-May and late September, when average daytime temperatures are 25 to 30 degrees Celsius. The water is warm until late autumn.

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Eforie is located about 14 km south of Constanta between the sea and Techirghiol Lake.  It is the second largest resort on Romanian riviera (after Mamaia). It is a traditional place for rest and treatment using natural cure factors. Two treatment centers are open all year around with facilities for warm baths based on concentrated salted water from Lake Techirghiol or Black Sea, warm mud ginecological treatment and centers for Gerovital, Boicil and Pell-Amar.

The conplex offers many pools with sea water, tennis and minigolf grounds, parks for children open-air theatres. One can practice sport fishing, nautical sports at the modern facilities of the resort can play mechanical games, billiards and go to discotheques. So as to spend an evening with a traditional touch, one may go to the folkloric parties held in the restaurants with Romanian specificity, and in outdoor restaurants.

The resort is largely known for the "Bai reci" treatment base, situated right on the coast of the Techirgiol Lake, offering the possibility of making cures with vegetable slime mud. The extremely salt water of the lake and the natural ultraviolet radiation are recommendable for tourists irrespective of their age.

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Costinesti is a resort in Constanta County located on the shore of the Black Sea, just 28 km south from the city of Constanta. The village Schitu is included in the Costinesti commune.

It evolved from a small fisherman's village in the 1960s to summer destination, most popular with young people and students. A hotel, as well as several villa complexes were erected during the Communist era, and possessed varying degrees of style and comfort. After 1989, some of them have been modernized, and private construction, especially to the north of the resort, has taken off.

The resort also has a small inland lake, around which several lodges are located.

Opposite to one of the northern beaches, the shipwreck of Evangelia, a Greek ship beached there in the late 1960s proves to be quite popular with the tourists.

Nightlife is centered mainly around the two discos (Ring and Tineretului). Because Costinesti is mostly frequented by youngsters, the atmosphere tends to be here livelier than in the other Black Sea resorts.

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Mangalia is situated on the Black Sea coast, in SE extremity of Romania, in Constanta county 44 km south of the municipality of Constanta, on the same latitude as the French resort of Nice. The town is a railway terminus. Mangalia, whose current name derives from Byzantine Greek (Pangalia or Pancalia - "the most beautiful"), is the southernmost resort on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea, built on the place where in Antiquity there was the flourishing Greek city of Callatis (founded in the 6th c. B.C. by Greek colonists from Heraklion).

Moderate maritime littoral climate (annual average temperature 11.2°C) with hot summers (July average over 22°C) and mild winters (January average 0.2°C), Mangalia being the country's second place, after Herculane Spa, with positive average temperatures in wintertime). Spring comes early but is cool and autumn is long and warm. In summertime there are about 25 sunny days in a month and the duration of sunshine is of 10-12 hours a day. The natural cure factors are the water of the Black Sea, which is chlorided, sulphated, sodic, magnesian, hypotonic (mineralization 15.5g), the sulphurous, chlorided, bicarbonated, sodic, calcic, mesothermal (21-28°C) mineral waters of the springs in the northern part of the town, in the area of the beach between Saturn and Venus, the sulphurous peat mud, rich in minerals, which is extracted from the peat bog north of the town (exploitation is estimated to last for 250 years) and the marine climate, rich in saline aerosols and solar radiation. The resort has a large, fine-sand beach developed for purposes of aeroheliotherapy and wave therapy, as well as high seawalls with a specific microclimate where one may benefit from inhalations of saline aerosols having therapeutic effects.

North of the town, over a distance of 8 km there extend the new summer resorts of Saturn, Venus, Cap Aurora, Jupiter, Neptun and Olimp, which are administered by the town of Mangalia to which they are linked by bus and minibus lines.