A golf with swans

Mangalia: golf with swans

Because of, or thanks to, the program of vouchers to support Romanian tourism, I found myself at the Mangalia Spa Sanatorium, where the doctor sent me to strengthen my spine. I'd only been here in passing, so I decided to revisit the places where the program of terraforming the Romanian coastline started in the second half of the fifties, with Cezar Lăzărescu at the helm. A few villas, the Perla restaurant at Eforie Nord and some of the hotels at Neptun-Olimp, particularly Amfiteatru, still stand the test of more than half a century. See, however, the references and models of the time, see the pressure of communist ideology in urban and architectural conformity. Here you can see the references to Niemeyer's Brasilia, strictly contemporary with the start of the seaside project; but beyond, in the restaurants with hundreds of seats, veritable privately run, unmanageable shit-houses, where signs still remain on the walls indicating the e