Constanta history is a remarkable page in the history of Romania, the port-city being today one of the earliest settlements atested on our country.  Tomis, the former Greek colony, was contained in what is today called “Old Town”, the historic area around the Casino. This phrase has its roots in the period of systematization and […]

The memorial house Zafirios Kyriakou is one of the constructions with history and Greek influences from the county of Constanța. The building was built in the period 1984 in an eclectic style. Constanța was founded following the Greek colonization of the basin of the Black Sea (the Greek Pontus Euxeinos) by the Milesian colonists in […]

The house was built in the year 1926 by the one who also gives its name, Albert Theiler, on the ruins of the former Metropol Hotel. Hotel Danubiu, which became Metropol was built around the year 1850. In May 1864 Cuza was accommodated here, in his path from Giurgiu – Cernavodă – Kustendje – Constantinople. […]

It was built by the Greek painter Theodor Russo, at the end of XIX century. The building’s architecture is influenced by neoclassical  style of the architect Pelopidas Couppa. Neo-Classicism is a  movement in fine arts, the architecture and decorative arts of Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is characterised by classical […]

The house was built in the year 1890. The apartment and its stone surrounding have been taken from the antique citadel Tomis. Currently, in the building functions the Full-time kindergarten no. 16. Tomis, today’s Constanța, has been founded over 2500 years ago by the Greek navigators and bargainers who came from the city Milet (Asia […]

It is a very special building from the early twentieth century and is named after its owner Sava Somanescu. In 1909, on April 15,  the landlord Sava Şomănescu received from the Marjory the building permit to built a vila facing the Elisabeta Avenue now no. 17. Somanescu  was in 1906 the President of the Romanian […]

The building bears the name of the owner who built it, dr. Nicolae Pilescu. He was a commune physician in 1911. The house was built in 1903, a year whereby Constanța was developing. The port was modernized and developed according to plan reconstruction between 1895 and 1909. Additonal roads and railways were built connecting Constanța […]

Manicatide was born in Giurgiu in 1879 in a wealthy family and Greek origins. Take Manicatide,  a grain magnate, an  important man of buisness of the Hellenic community in Constanta and President of the al Camerei de Comerț, built in the seaside city  not less than 3 villas. One of them, Manicatide house was built […]

The building stands out through the combining of the Romantic elements with the brâncovenești. A special characteristic is represented by an exterior mansard which has as support consoles (decorating romantic elements). The brâncovenești elements are presented by the belt of apparent brick. The construction plans of the immobile have been inspired by the projects belonging […]

The memorial house Grigoriu was built in the year 1910, being projected by the architect Adolf Linz in an eclectic classicist style. Currently it is “the House of the Function” – M.A.N. Adolf Linz is the architect who emphasizes from the architectural point of view, on Constanța of the end of the XIXth century and […]