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Things to do in Mangalia

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Ninety seconds on Mangalia

A port at the southern end of the coast, founded as the Dorian colony of Callatis and now a shipyard town with the quietest beaches of the developed strip. Its Ottoman mosque of 1590 is the oldest in the country. It is the base for the small southern resorts named after planets, and for the sulphurous springs that gave it a spa role from the 1900s. It is a much plainer place than Constanța and considerably cheaper for it.

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  1. Callatis Archaeological Site

    Archaeological Site · 1 hr

    The remains of the Dorian colony founded in the sixth century before the common era, including a stretch of the Roman and Byzantine wall and a tomb with a papyrus, scattered through the modern town rather than fenced in one place.

  2. Esmahan Sultan Mosque

    Temple · 30 min

    The oldest mosque in the country, built in 1590 for a daughter of Selim II from stone taken out of the Greek and Roman town, with a cemetery and a fountain in its walled garden. It is still in use.

  3. Plaja Mangalia

    Beach · 3 hr

    A wide sand beach at the southern end of the coastal strip, backed by park rather than by clubs, and much the calmest of the developed beaches.

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