Venus

Summer resort of national importance, situated in SE extremity of Romania (Constanta county), on the shore of the Black Sea, elevation 3-20 m, 3 km N of the town of Mangalia, to which it belongs administratively, and 41 km S of the municipality of Constan`a (seat of Constanta county). Seashore climate with hot summers (July average temperature over 22°C) when 25-28 days in a month are sunny (sunshine duration 10-12 hours daily), and with mild, rather snowless winters (January average temperature 0°C). The annual average temperature is of 11.2°C and the precipitaion averages 400 mm annually. In summer there is a breeze every day. Natural cure factors are the excitant-stressful marine climate, rich in saline aerosols and solar radiation with a stimulating effect on the human body and the water of the Black Sea which is chlorided, sulphated, sodic, magnesian, hypotonic (mineralization 15.5 g), all of which are beneficial both to healthy holidaymakers and to persons suffering from degenerative rheumatic diseases (cervical, dorsal and lumbar spondylosis), post-traumatic conditions (after twists, luxations of fractures), secondary anemia, weakly conditions, decalcification, rachitis, skin diseases (psoriasis), endocrine diseases (hypothyroidism and mixedema), gynecological disorders (pubertal hypoovarianism, ovarian sterility), etc. There is a large natural beach (extending over a leaght of 1.2 km between Venus and Saturn and a width of 200 m) with fine sand where there also spring hypothermal sulphurous mineral waters caught and used for showers in a special enclosure. Venus is a new resort (1972), a cosy and elegant one standing out due to the variety and beauty of the architectural styles of the hotels and villas, as also to their particular comfort. Most of the five-storey hotels bear feminine names (Anca, Brandusa, Corina, Dana, Felicia, Irina, Raluca, Rodica, Sanda, Silvia, etc.) towering over which are the four taller hotels (Vulturul, Cocorul, Pajura, Egreta). There exist also a camp site, many restaurants, sweets shops, cafeterias, bars and nightclubs, an open-air cinema, sportsgrounds (volleyball, handball, minigolf), discotheques, amusement park, etc. At the southern en of the resort there is a special pavilion for applications of sapropelic mud and sulphurous baths; also in that area, close to the resort there is a important stud farm. Leisure and amusement opportunities are of a wide variety: water sports (yachting, wind-surfing, hydrobicycles), trips on Romanian routes (tour of the Romanian coastal resorts, voyages by ship on the Black Sea or on the Danube-Black Sea Canal, trips to the Danube Delta, to the ancient Histria citade, 7th century B.C., to the Murfatlar vineyards, etc.) or to the resorts on the Bulgarian coast, riding, etc.