Olimp

Summer resort of national importance situated in SE extremity of Romania (Constanta county), in a zone of relatively lavish vegetation (forests with many southern tree species) on the coast of the Black Sea, 7 km N of Mangalia town to which it is administratively subordinated. Olimp is a new resort, built in 1972; it is made up of an ultramodern architectural ensemble with elegant hotels bearing the names of old historical Romanian provinces (Banat, Transilvania, Maramures, Oltenia, Muntenia, Moldova, Dobrogea). The resort actually is a district of the Neptun resort. Excitant-stressful marine climate with hot summers (July average temperature above 22°C) when most days are sunny (10-12 hours of sunshine a day), and mild winters with little snow (January average temperature 0°C). The annual average temperature is of 11.2°C and the precipitation is reduced (less than 400 mm annually). Natural cure factors are the marine climate rich in saline aerosols and solar radiations and the chlorided, sulphated, sodic, magnesian, hypotonic water of the Black Sea (mineralization 15.5 g). The resort lies on a high natural seawall, elevation 20-30 m, and has small and cosy fine- seand beaches reclaimed from the sea by the creation of small artifical coves. The resort benefits both healthy holidaymakers and ailing people who can treat there their degenerative, inflammatory and abarticular rheumatic diseases (cervical, dorsal, lumbar spondylosis; painful conditions after acute articular rheumatism or infections in foci, rheumatoid spondylitis, rheumatic polyarthritis with moderate inflammatory activity; tendonitis, tendomyositis, tendoperiostosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis), post-traumatic conditions (after operations on muscles, joints and bones, after twists, luxations and fractures), peripheral neurological diseases (paralyses and pareses, polyneurapathies after the acute stage, sequels after poliomyelitis), gynecological (ovarian insufficiency, chronic cervicitis, chronic metrosalpingitis), endocrine (benign hypothyroidism, mixedema), dermatological (psoriasis, incipient ichthyosis, eczema, urticaria, pruritus), respiratory and other diseases. The resort offers opportunities for trips to the nearby Romanian zones (tours of the Romanian seacoast, trips to the Danube Delta and to the ruins of the Histria citadel - 7th c. B.C.), trips to the resorts on the Bulgarian coast (Balchik, Albena, Golden Sands, Varna).