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Archaeological Park
Near the city's main intersection, B-dul Ferdinand and B-dul Tomis, is the Archaeological Park, which has remains of the 3rd-century Roman city wall and the 6th-century Butchers' tower, loads of Roman sculptures and the modern Victory Monument (1968).
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Art Museum & Gallery
The Art Museum & Gallery displays mostly still-life and landscape paintings and sculptures. Contemporary exhibits are held in an adjoining art gallery.
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Folk Art Museum
The Folk Art Museum, exhibits local handicrafts and costumes.
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Geamia Hunchiar Mosque
While the Mahmudiye Mosque is more imposing, the smaller Geamia Hunchiar Mosque is also worth a visit.
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Genoese Lighthouse
The 8m-high Genoese Lighthouse off Str Remus Opreanu and a pier, has a fine view of old Constanţa. Behind the lighthouse, a tragically poised statue of Mihai Eminescu looks out to the sea.
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History & Archaeological Museum
Constanţa's most renowned attraction is the History & Archaeological Museum. There's something here for everyone. The kids will like the bones of a 2nd-century woman and the mammoth tusks; otherwise there are many 2nd-century Roman statues (discovered under the old train station in 1962) and 4th-century Roman coins. The centrepiece is a fantastic sculpture of the snake god Glykon, which is carved from a single block of marble.
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Ion Jalea Museum
The small Ion Jalea Museum, houses many of the local sculptor's works in a fabulous Moorish-style house.
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Mahmudiye Mosque
South of the Piaţa Ovidiu is the imposing Mahmudiye Mosque, which has a 140-step minaret that you can climb when the gate is unlocked. This is Romania's main mosque, where the Mufti (the Muslim spiritual head) is located.
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Naval History Museum
The Naval History Museum is housed in the old Navy high school. The captions are in Romanian.
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Orthodox Cathedral
Two blocks south of the mosque is the Orthodox cathedral. A small archaeological site lies south of it, displaying walls of houses dating from the 4th to 6th centuries. Constanţa's Roman Catholic church is one street west of the Orthodox cathedral.
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Planetarium & Dolphinarium
Heading north towards Mamaia, you pass Constanţa's Planetarium & Dolphinarium, on the southeastern shores of Lake Tăbăcăriei.
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Roman Mosaic
Behind the History and Archaeological Museum is the 3rd-century Roman mosaic, discovered in 1959 and believed to have housed a commercial building. A staircase led from the museum's lower terrace to the public Roman thermal baths, at the southern end of the cliff. Parts of its foundation remain today and are best viewed from Aleea Vasile Canarache.
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Stadionul Farul
FC Farul Constanţa, the city's cherished football team (they are six-time national champions), has its home ground at the 5000-seat Stadionul Farul in Parcul Copilului (Children's Park).
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Statue of Ovid
The Statue of Ovid commemorates the outlaw-poet who was exiled to Constanţa in the 8th century by Emperor Augustus. He looks lost in deep thought but he may simply be depressed; he reputedly disliked Tomis intensely and wrote some of his most self-pitying verses here.
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Victory Monument
Near the city's main intersection, B-dul Ferdinand and B-dul Tomis, is the Archaeological Park, which has remains of the 3rd-century Roman city wall and the 6th-century Butchers' tower, loads of Roman sculptures and the modern Victory Monument.
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