# Seaside — tourist attractions in Romania [Romania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/attractions) › [Categories](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/categories) > Beaches and resorts on the Black Sea coast. The seaside of Romania stretches from the Danube Delta to the Bulgarian border, but the part with developed beaches is much shorter: the strip between Năvodari and Vama Veche, with Constanța in the middle. The north means the wild beaches of Corbu, Vadu and Sfântu Gheorghe; the south is the string of resorts built in the 1960s and 1970s, Costinești, Neptun–Olimp, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, each with a style of its own. The sea has no tides and is less salty than the Mediterranean, and the season runs from June to early September. Mamaia is the largest and loudest resort; Vama Veche, at the border, has stayed the most bohemian. [Mamaia Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-mamaia) and the [Constanța Casino](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cazinoul-din-constanta), on the city's seafront, are the landmarks of the north; [Eforie Nord](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/eforie-nord) is the classic family resort; [Vama Veche](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vama-veche) closes the line in the south. For a beach without a resort: [Vadu Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-vadu) and [Sfântu Gheorghe Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-sfantu-gheorghe), at the mouth of the Danube. ## Tourist attractions 26 attractions - [Constanța Casino](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cazinoul-din-constanta) — Monuments and historic sites · Constanța, CT · 53 lei · Top 20 The Art Nouveau building on the Constanța seafront, opened in 1910, left to decay after 1990 and reopened in 2025 after restoration, with exhibitions on its history and on the Black Sea. - [Eforie Nord](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/eforie-nord) — Seaside · Eforie, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100 The second resort of the Romanian coast, on the strip between the Black Sea and Lake Techirghiol: three kilometres of fine sand and a sapropelic mud cure a few hundred metres from the waves. - [Mamaia Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-mamaia) — Seaside · Constanța, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100 The longest developed beach on the Romanian coast: eight kilometres of sand on the spit between the Black Sea and Lake Siutghiol, widened by more than a hundred metres with dredged sand. - [Vama Veche](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vama-veche) — Seaside · Vama Veche, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100 The last village on the Romanian coast, a kilometre from the Bulgarian border: two kilometres of fine sand, terraces open until dawn and the waters of a marine reserve. - [Sfântu Gheorghe Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-sfantu-gheorghe) — Seaside · Sfântu Gheorghe, TL · 5 lei · 4½ – 5 hours The wild beach where the Sfântu Gheorghe branch meets the Black Sea: 30 km of fine sand, 2 km from a Delta village that can only be reached by water. - [Sulina Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-sulina) — Seaside · Sulina, TL · 5 lei · 3½ – 4 hours Romania's easternmost beach, where the Sulina branch meets the Black Sea: very fine alluvial sand, an unusually wide strip and water that stays shallow for tens of metres. - [Vadu Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-vadu) — Seaside · Vadu, CT · 5 lei · 3½ – 4 hours A wild beach of shell-strewn sand at the village of Vadu, inside the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve: low dunes, not a single building and an earth track down to the sea. - [2 Mai – Vama Veche Marine Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rezervatia-marina-2-mai-vama-veche) — National parks and reserves · 2 Mai, CT · Free The only marine reserve on the Romanian coast: the waters between 2 Mai and the Bulgarian border, with stone reefs, brown seaweed beds and mussel banks to see with a mask or on a dive. - [Eforie Sud](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/eforie-sud) — Seaside · Eforie, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours The resort where Romanian spa tourism began, on the highest cliff of the coast: interwar villas, an Art Deco casino and a beach recently widened to over a hundred metres. - [Constanța City Beaches](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plajele-constanta) — Seaside · Constanța, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours The city's own beaches, from the fish market down to the cliff below the old town: three and a half kilometres of replenished sand, with Modern, Trei Papuci and Tataia one after another. - [Corbu Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-corbu) — Seaside · Corbu, CT · 5 lei · 3½ – 4 hours The last wild beach at the southern edge of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve: shell-strewn sand, dunes and a low earth cliff, with no hotels, sunbeds or lifeguards. - [Costinești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/costinesti) — Seaside · Costinești, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours The youth resort of the Romanian coast, 31 kilometres south of Constanța: an east-facing beach, the white obelisk on the sand and the rusting wreck of the cargo ship Evangelia. - [Năvodari – Mamaia Nord Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-navodari) — Seaside · Năvodari, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours Six kilometres of wide sand north of Mamaia, split between the beach clubs of Mamaia Nord and the roomy, quieter town beach of Năvodari, with shallow water for hundreds of metres. - [Neptun–Olimp](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neptun-olimp) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours Two resorts built side by side north of Mangalia, between the sea and the Comorova forest: a beach widened to a hundred metres, two lakes right behind the sand and 1970s architecture. - [2 Mai](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/2-mai) — Seaside · 2 Mai, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours A Lipovan fishing village between Mangalia and Vama Veche, with a beach set in a small bay, a fish station at its southern end and the waters of the 2 Mai – Vama Veche marine reserve. - [Agigea Marine Dunes Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dunele-marine-agigea) — National parks and reserves · Agigea, CT · Free The only marine dunes left on the Romanian coast, protected since 1939 in the grounds of the Agigea Marine Biological Station: rare sand plants, tortoises and a free themed trail. - [Callatis Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-callatis) — Fortresses and fortifications · Mangalia, CT · 10 lei The ruins of the Greek city from which Mangalia grew: the circuit wall with its towers and the Syrian-type basilica on the clifftop promenade, steps from the beach, plus the town's archaeology museum. - [Constanța Peninsula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/peninsula-constanta) — Monuments and historic sites · Constanța, CT · Free · 2½ – 3 hours Constanța's old town, on the site of ancient Tomis: Ovid Square, the Roman mosaic, the mosque and its minaret, the cathedral, the Genoese Lighthouse and the casino seafront, all a few steps apart. - [Gura Portiței](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gura-portitei) — Seaside · Jurilovca, TL · Free · 5 – 5½ hours A strip of sand between the Black Sea and Lake Golovița, in the Danube Delta, reached only by boat from Jurilovca: a wide beach with reed sunshades and a single resort. - [Jupiter–Cap Aurora](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/jupiter-cap-aurora) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours Two neighbouring resorts north of Mangalia: Jupiter, its beach split by groynes into small bays, and Cap Aurora, with stepped hotels named after precious stones. - [Lake Siutghiol](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-siutghiol) — Lakes · Ovidiu, CT · Free The freshwater lake behind Mamaia, 7.5 km long, with water sports bases on the resort side and little Ovidiu Island, tied to the legend of the Roman poet, off the town of Ovidiu. - [Mangalia Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-mangalia) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours The town's own beach, running from the marina breakwater towards Saturn below the promenade rebuilt in 2022; since autumn 2026 it is being widened with sand, behind four new breakwaters. - [Mlaștina Hergheliei Nature Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mlastina-hergheliei) — National parks and reserves · Mangalia, CT · Free · ½ – 1 hours A 98-hectare former lagoon between Saturn and Venus, with reed beds, open water and sulphur springs where swans, egrets and black-winged stilts stop over; you watch it from the surrounding roads. - [Saturn](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/saturn) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours The resort that runs straight into Mangalia from the north: 1970s tower hotels, a beach in the middle of being widened, a public spa sanatorium and, behind it all, the Mlaștina Hergheliei nature reserve. - [Tuzla Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-tuzla) — Seaside · Tuzla, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours A narrow strip of sand below a high earth cliff covered in scrub, next to the oldest working lighthouse on the Romanian coast, with clear, turquoise-green water. - [Venus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/venus) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours A resort on the southern coast, three kilometres north of Mangalia: a recently widened beach, bays closed off by breakwaters, hotels with women's names set around a lake and sulphurous waters used for treatment. --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/litoral Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/litoral.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/litoral.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/litoral.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania