The port of Tulcea in Romania gradually drops out of sight as we sail down the Danube. It takes two hours to reach the little town of Sulina, at the southern extremity of the delta, where the river spills into the Black Sea. It feels as if we have reached the end of the world. Two thousand years ago the Roman empire chose this point as its eastern limit. More recently, in the 19th century, the European Commission of the Danube established its headquarters at Sulina.But the fine buildings belong to another era. After the second world war communism put an end to hopes of development. "We did not even manage to build a little bridge across the river," complains Stefan Raileanu, a vet with a passion for the wild delta horses.
The port of Tulcea in Romania gradually drops out of sight as we sail down the Danube. It takes two hours to reach the little town of Sulina, at the southern extremity of the delta, where the river spills into the Black Sea. It feels as if we have reached the end of the world. Two thousand years ago the Roman empire chose this point as its eastern limit. More recently, in the 19th century, the European Commission of the Danube established its headquarters at Sulina.
But the fine buildings belong to another era. After the second world war communism put an end to hopes of development. "We did not even manage to build a little bridge across the river," complains Stefan Raileanu, a vet with a passion for the wild delta horses.
Also, Rome owned most of romania at that time, it was Bulgaria aka Thrace that resisted until the Christian era. keep to the Fen Causeway
