Fortress road: Constanța – Histria – Enisala
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Access
Car
On foot
Road
Unprepared
Gear
Footwear
Water
Hat
Sunscreen
Repellent
Modest dress
By car, a full day, on the heritage trail of the Razim lagoon, about 188 km: from Ovidiu Square to Cheile Dobrogei, 8 stops. Leave the metropolis of the Left Pontus, Ovid’s city. Romania’s oldest urban settlement (657 BC) and its largest archaeological site. Limestone reefs 140 million years old.
How to do the route
Allow a full day by car around the Razim lagoon. Check museum hours and bookings in season. Places of worship and pilgrimage: modest dress, silence during services, respect for the customs of the local community (Muslim, Orthodox or Lipovan).
Stops on the route
- Piața Ovidiu - Departure from the metropolis of the Left Pontus, Ovid's city.
- Cazinoul Constanța - Art Nouveau building from 1910, restored.
- Farul genovez - The cliff-top lighthouse preserves the memory of the Genoese merchants who revived the port in the Middle Ages.
- Histria - Romania's oldest urban settlement (657 BC), the country's largest archaeological site.
- Jurilovca și Argamum - Lipovan fishing village and the citadel on Doloșman Cape, the first settlement attested in writing on the territory of Romania.
- Cetatea Enisala - Dobruja's only medieval citadel, with a panorama over Lake Razim.
- Babadag - Former Ottoman seat of Dobruja and the Ali Gazi Pașa Mosque (1610).
- Cheile Dobrogei - Limestone reefs 140 million years old, among the country's oldest landforms.