DANUBE DELTA

Danube Delta map

The river Danube flows into the Black sea in Romania's territory, in the north-eastern Dobrogea, through the Delta - three arms figuring the Greek letter of the same name. The third natural phenomenon of the kind in the world (next to the deltas of the Amazons and of the Nile), is a crisscrossing of the channels, banks, creeks, rain forests, river and marine dunes that are permanently and extensively changing shape; the lighthouses built by the seaside in 1802 (Sulina) and 1865 (Sf. Gheorghe) are now land-locked, 2-3 km behind the sea-line.

The Delta gate is the river and maritime port Tulcea, the ancient Aegyssus (1st-3rd centuries), a base for the Roman, Byzantine, genoese, Ottoman fleets (1st-19th centuries). There are traces of habitation dating from the Iron Age, vestiges of the Roman stronghold, one can visit the Danube Delta Museum (arts collection, ethnography, archeology); boats are available for trips to the Delta.

The main arsm through which the river flows into the sea - Chilia, Sulina, Sf. Gheorghe - enclosure natural reserves covering an area of around 50,000 hectares, that protect the animal kingdom (over 3,400 species, European and world ones, of which 300 birds - pelican, cormorant, egret, eagle etc., around 150 species of fish - beluga, Black Sea sturgeon, sheath, mackerel - the vegetal kingdom (plants with floating leaves, other ones theat grow on the banks and on floating isles); the forests - natural monuments of Legea, Caraorman, Elenciuc; banks (Saraturi), sectors of the hydrographic network. By the Decision no. 953 of 27 August 1990, Romania's Government declared the Danume Delta a RESERVE OF BIOSPHERE. A vacation in this wildlife sanctuary deserves to be enhanced with an angling party or hunting party and of course, with Delta cuisine: fish broth, spitted carp, fried fish (with polenta and garlic sauce), fish cooked with vegetables, onions and oil, crawfish, frog legs, minced fish meat cooked as rolls, cabbage rolls, stuffed peppers.

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