capidava fortress

It is on one side of the Danube river, a very beautiful place. This place has so good energy and gives you so many positive vibes that you`ll want to go every year. The villagers are very kind and even there isn`t a travel guide they will explain to you the history of the place :)

Capidava ancient fortress has in the first place a very nice location. It is on top of a hill that is dominating one arm of the Danube river ensuring a large perspective towards north and south.This was also the reason of this fortress to control the goods traffic along the river.On the archeological site, typically for most of the Romanian similar sites due to the lack of financial support, you will see only the lower part of the walls and building foundations, without any reconstructions (excepting part of the exterior defending wall that is facing the main road. The interior area of the fortress is covered with tall grass and stepa vegetation but fortunately from time to time the village administration is cutting this vegetation so you can walk inside the fortress walls.There is only one information board detailing some facts about this location.Recommended time to visit this site is spring and autumn because in summer can be very hot and will be no shade.I also suggest to conclude the visit to Capidava with a visit to a beautiful small art museum located a few kilometers to the north in the village of Topalu. You will be impressed by a quality of the paintings stored in the Topalu museum, taking into account that the art collection was a private one (Vintila Family) and the village is very remote.

The people fom Danais.ro are enthusiastc historians who recreated the atmosphere, food, tehnology in camp style near the Danube river and the ancient stone ruins of Capidava in the center of the oldest inhabited area of Europe. Must go spend a day at least.

In a weekend I went to visit the Danube shore. One of my friends from an NGO participated to an event organized in Capdiava by an association interested in culture, history and living close to nature and he was delighted by the beautiful scenery and the rich history of the places. So, from Bucharest I arrived at Cernavodă and then went via Seimeni to Capidava. The fortress still guards the Danube after 2000 years. At Capidava, in Danais, the camp of the association I mentioned before, I ate the best fish borsch in my life. There the volunteers told me about the history of the place, taking me from the Dacian king Dapyx, who once ruled the place, to the emperor Trajan who ordered the roman castellum, still visible, to be built. And even to Saint George, which first representation in the world was discovered in the Capidava Fortress. In the end, I was lucky enough to see the presentation of a Roman legionary equipment and of the battle techniques of the Romans. I need to mention the boat trip with the local fishermen which revealed to me the rich flora and of the place. After lunch, Topalu was my next destination. I could not get out of a shocking art museum. Located in a village almost unavailable on the map, it hosts over 220 original works of art belonging to the most important Romanian artists of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Just a few names… Theodor Aman, Nicolae Tonitza, Corneliu Baba, Nicolae Grigorescu… Then I went to Harsova, were I visited the ancient Carsium Fortress, the neolitihic settlement (7000 years old) and the museum. In the museum you can admire 7,000 years old masterpieces of Gumelnita culture, Dacian artifacts and Roman traces too. I recommend this voyage to the ones who want to spend a day on the Danube shore, the shore of an ancient civilization, a rich place in traditions and a beautiful scenery.Thomas Ghysels