Black Sea Coast

This is the main tourist area, considering the large numtber of romanian and foreign tourists. The romanian "riviera", which is 50 km long, is made up of a continuous belt of 16 seaside resorts (some of the being also spas), out of which six are in high demand: Mamaia, Eforie Nord, Costinesti (the resort of the youth), Neptun (the favourite holiday place of former dictator Ceausescu), Olimp, Venus, 2 Mai, all of them built after 1960. Tourists can visit also the vestiges of the three colonies which were founded there by ancient Greeks in the seventh - sixth centuries BC: Histria to the north, Tomis in the centre (the present-day Constanta, which is the main Romanian sea port, boasting an imposing archaeological museum) and Callatis (the present-day Mangalia), and also the monument from Adamclisi (100 km west). Besides the ordinary cure factors, there are here natural lakes with therapeutical mud. Lake Techirghiol is most appreciated and several sanatoriums were built around it.