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Sulina, Romania
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Things to do in Sulina

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Sulina

The easternmost town in the country, at the mouth of the middle Danube arm, reachable only by boat. It was a free port from 1856 and the seat of the European Commission of the Danube, which is why a town of four thousand has consulate buildings and a cemetery of nine nationalities. The town runs along one street parallel to the river with a long beach behind it. It is quiet out of season to the point of being empty, and that is largely why people go.

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Things to do

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  1. European Commission of the Danube Lighthouse

    Landmark · 30 min

    The lighthouse of 1802, rebuilt in 1870, which stood at the river mouth until the shore moved two kilometres east and left it in the middle of town. It now holds a small museum with the commission's instruments.

  2. Palace of the European Commission of the Danube

    Landmark · 30 min

    The commission's headquarters, built in the 1860s, from which an international body governed navigation on the lower river until 1938. It is a public building of imperial scale in a town with no road to it.

  3. Plaja Sulina

    Beach · 3 hr

    A wide sand beach about two kilometres from the town along a track, backed by dunes and effectively undeveloped. It is where the Danube's sediment ends up and it goes on for kilometres.

  4. Sulina Old Lighthouse

    Landmark · 30 min

    The older light on the left bank, disused, standing where the channel used to run. It marks how far the delta has grown seaward in a century and a half.

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