Jupiter

Summer resort of national importance, situated in SE extremity of Romania, on the shore of the Black Sea, 5 km N of the town of mangalia (Constanta county) to which it belongs administratively. It is a new resort (inaugurated in July 1968) which has many modern botels, restaurants, hars and night clubs, campground, cinema, tennis and minigolf courts, pools, bowling, etc. In the summer months the sky is mostly clear, the sun shining for an average 10-12 hours a day. The annual average temperature is of 11°C (July average temperature above 22°C; January average 0°C). Reduced precipitation (about 400 mm annually). Natural cure factors are the water of the Black Sea which is chlorided, sulphated, sodic, magnesian, bypotonic (mineralization 15.5g), and the marine climate rich in saline aerosols and solar radiation. Large fine-sand beaches developed for heliotherapy and wave therapy. The resort, with the sun and the sea, benefits both healty helidaymakers and ailing people, for tratment (hypothyroidism, lymphatism, secondary anemia, decalcification, certain dermatoses and rheumatic diseases). Many opportunities for entertainment and water sports, amusements, internal and foreign trips, etc.