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Mangalia (population:40,000) is a city and a port on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. City has been known in recent years as the place where the largest festival in Romania takes place: Callatis Festival. It is twinned with Greenport, a coastal village on Long Island (New York State, USA).
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History
A Greek colony named Callatis was founded in the 4th century BC during the rule of the Macedonian king Amyntas III. Since the 9th century it was known by the Turks as Pangalia, by the Romanians as Tomisovara and by the Greeks as Panglicara and it was one of the most important ports on the west coast of the Black Sea.
Geographical positioning and climate
Mangalia is posistioned at 43°49’ latitude and 28°35’ longitude, with an approximate elevation of 10 meters, 44 km S of the municipality of Constanta, S of the parallel of 44 N, on the same latitude as the French resort of Nice. Mangalia also is the southernmost resort on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea.
Moderate maritime 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 Baile Herculane, with positive average temperatures in wintertime). Spring comes early but is cool and autumn is long and warm. In summer time, the nebulosity is reduced (about 25 sunny days in a month) and the duration of sunshine is of 10-12 hours a day. Low precipitation (about 400 mm annualy).
The sea breeze is stronger in summer. 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 that have a bracing effect on the organism.
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.
Touristic attractions
The Scythian tomb discovered in 1959 where archaeologists unearthed fragments of a papyrus in Greek, the first document of this kind in Romania; the incineration tombs (the necropolis of the Callatis citadel, dating back to the 4th-2nd centuries B.C.); the ruins of the Callatis citadel (6th century B.C.); the Turkish mosque (16th century); the Archaeology Museum which shelters a rich collection of amphorae and sculptures from the Hellenistic epoch, fragments of stone sarcophagi, etc.
The town itself and its suroundings are very beautiful. Mangalia is a summer resort but it has the credit to be a very peaceful and relaxing place in any season. The seawalls are great places for a walk. The view is romantic and unforgettable, in any season.
A special place called Killer is found near a meteorologic check-point. This is a place common among more bohemian couples, a romantic and spectacular place in winter and summer. The Moon rises in its red colour from the Black Sea at nights in the summer, and in winter time at Killer the biggest waves can be found. Actually this is the reason why this place is called Killer: the giant waves that sweep the whole seawall during the winter.
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