# Tourist attractions in Dobruja [Romania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/attractions) Dobruja is the land between the Danube and the Black Sea, in south-eastern Romania, made up of Constanța and Tulcea counties. It is a region of low plateau and steppe, with the Măcin Mountains – the oldest in the country – in the north and lagoon lakes along the coast. Here the Greeks founded the first colonies on what is now Romania's shore, here the Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans passed through, and the villages still keep Turkish, Tatar, Lipovan, Greek and Aromanian communities today. Constanța, the ancient Tomis, is the country's largest port; Tulcea is the gateway to the Danube Delta. What you can visit in Dobruja is about the sea, the Delta and history. The coast runs from [Mamaia Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-mamaia) to [Vama Veche](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vama-veche), with Eforie and the other resorts in between. The [Constanța Casino](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cazinoul-din-constanta) is the city's symbol, while the [Histria Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-histria) preserves the ruins of the oldest Greek settlement on this shore. To the north, the [Danube Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-dunarii) and the [Enisala Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-enisala) are the main reasons to head for [Tulcea County](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/county/tulcea). ## Tourist attractions 33 attractions - [Danube Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-dunarii) — Deltas · Tulcea County · 5 lei/day · 7½ – 8 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 Europe's largest wetland, a biosphere reserve and UNESCO site: channels, lakes, reed beds and over 300 bird species, from pelicans to egrets; visited by boat from Tulcea. - [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. - [Enisala Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-enisala) — Fortresses and fortifications · Enisala, TL · 20 lei · Top 100 The ruins of a 14th-century fortress, probably built by the Genoese on a limestone hill above lakes Razim and Babadag, with one of the widest views in Dobruja. - [Histria Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-histria) — Fortresses and fortifications · Istria, CT · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100 The ruins of the oldest city on Romanian soil, a Greek colony founded by Miletus in the 7th century BC on the shore of Lake Sinoe, with the site museum alongside. - [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 Dolphinarium](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delfinariul-constanta) — Zoos and aquariums · Constanța, CT · 74,37 lei · 1 – 1½ hours Romania's first dolphinarium, opened in 1972 on Mamaia Boulevard, with dolphin shows in a covered arena and, on the same ticket, a small reserve with Dobrujan birds and animals. - [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 Razim](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-razim) — Lakes · Sarichioi, TL · Free Romania's largest lake, a lagoon of about 415 km² south of the Danube Delta, with Lipovan fishing villages on its shores, protected islands and the ruins of Enisala and Argamum above the water. - [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. - [Lake Techirghiol](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-techirghiol) — Lakes · Techirghiol, CT · Free Romania's largest salt lake, a former sea bay next to Eforie: cold mud baths on the Techirghiol shore in summer, flocks of rare birds on water that does not freeze in winter. - [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. - [Tulcea Aquarium](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/acvariul-tulcea) — Zoos and aquariums · Tulcea, TL · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours The public aquarium in central Tulcea, with fish from the Danube and the Black Sea, coral reef tanks and a tunnel among sturgeon, plus an exhibition on the Delta's wildlife. - [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. ## Counties - [Constanța](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/county/constanta) - [Tulcea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/county/tulcea) --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/region/dobrogea Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/regiune/dobrogea.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/region/dobrogea.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/regione/dobrogea.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania