Mangalia is a city and a port on the coast of the Black Sea in the south-east of Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania.

The municipality of Mangalia also administers several summer time seaside resorts: Cap Aurora, Jupiter, Neptun, Olimp, Saturn, Venus.

Tourist attractions

• The city has been well known in recent years as the place where one of the largest summer festivals in Romania takes place: Callatis Festival;
• The Scythian tomb discovered in 1959 where archaeologists unearthed fragments of a papyrus in Greek, the first document of this kind in Romania;
• The incineration tombs (the necropolis of the Callatis citadel, dating back to the 4th-2nd centuries BC);
• The ruins of the Callatis citadel (6th century BC);
• The Turkish Esmahan Sultan Mosque (16th century);
• The Archaeology Museum which shelters a rich collection of amphorae and sculptures from the Hellenistic epoch, fragments of stone sarcophagi;
• Mangalia Marina