Statue of Mihai Eminescu

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This prominent statue of Romanian romantic poet Mihai Eminescu dates from the early 1930s and is the work of Romanian sculptor Oscar Han (1891–1976). The monument marks a visit to the Black Sea by Eminescu in 1882 and fulfills a poetic dream of Eminescu's to die by the edge of the sea.

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