Caesar Lazarescu

Dad

Looking back from our age, surrounded by screens and information from all corners of the world, you can hardly comprehend a completely different world than the one we live in even 70 years ago.
The project and then the achievements that we know as the Romanian Coast were born out of chance, inadvertence and oversight.
In the second half of the 1950s it was decided, at the level of the party leadership and the Union of Trade Unions, to grant paid vacation leave to employees. This decision was aimed at a large number of beneficiaries, but it had no adequate logistical basis.
The decision was forwarded to the organs of power in Constanța County that, in less than a year, a large number of accommodation places would be built to receive trade unionists on vacation. The existing hotels, mostly in Constanta or existing since the inter-war period, were not suitable or sufficient for the wave of vacationers eager for the sea and the sun.
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