Sulina Water Tower

A great place you should visit in northern Dobruja is the Saon Monastery. [adsense]A group of monks that left the Celic-Dere monastery after it became specialized in nuns founded the Saon chapel in 1846. They first built the Cilicul de Jos hermitage not far from the Cilic valley, before finally settling on this beautiful site…

The Lipovans are an important minority in the northern Dobruja. One of their most distinctive traits is their religious devotement. They are old-rite Christians, which mainly means that all of their religious holidays are set about two weeks after those of the new-rite Christians. [adsense]Lipovans left Russia a few hundred years ago because of the…

Sulina is the second of the two cities in Danube Delta, with a population of only a couple thousands of people. [adsense]Although its geographic features set it apart from any other city in Romania (the country’s easternmost point, lowest altitude – only 3.5 meters above sea level, accessibility only by water), its history makes it…

With wild horses, vines, 700 year old oak trees and sand dunes, Letea is the northern most subtropical forest in the world. Hidden away from the eyes and paths of most tourists, the forest has numerous secrets which it carefully guards. [adsense]To get here, you have to cross through a myriad of canals, all covered…

The other day, I went with some friends to visit the medieval fortress of Enisala, or Heracleea, as it’s best known. Since I’d never seen it before, I was very excited to finally see one of the great citadels in the country. [adsense]As we got there, we found the fortress one top of a tall…

[adsense]The building of this lighthouse was decided on 2 November 1865 at Galati, after the establishment of the European Commission of the Danube. The plans and the building of this objective were realized by the English engineers Ch. Hartley and M. Engelhardt who also helped create the plans of the digging and maintenance of the…