Tourist attractions in GalatiGalati Municipality is one of the largest economic centers in Romania, or Moldova, with a loaded history and because it is located on the Danube River, the most important commercial artery-European river, the Danube-Main-Rhine. Economic life developed around the Naval Shipyard, a river port, around Arcelor-Mittal Steel Works and Ore Port.

Among the tourist attractions in Galati are:

1. Gulliver Theatre - was founded on October 1, 1952 and is the center of attention child . Up to this point were presented perst 200 titles, (4-5 on the season premieres) of Romanian and world literature for children, under the leadership of men of culture.

Teatrul Guliver Galati

2. Theatre - "Fani Tardini" has existed for over 45 years. It is a repertory theater with dramatic profile, the band consists of 25 permanent actors, two directors and a director. The theater has its own production facilities, own room with 300 seats, with Italian-type scene, the only institution specialized in professional theater drama Galati County.

Galati Theatre

3. Wear an old inn - is located on equality and is built of brick. The gate is located in the massive wall of the courtyard of an old inn, probably from the early nineteenth century. Several sources state that it would be called "Turkish Gate" and that it was in medieval times where traders bought their goods coming from everywhere in the port of Galati.

Wear an old inn Galati

4. Statue of Costache Negri - is on Royal Street in the ambient space of great beauty. On the left, the inscription contains some words of Black, extracted from a toast uttered by him in Paris, in the circle of Romanian students there, on December 27, 1948, during the celebration of the name day of Stefan cel Mare "In my dreams blooming shown the future of Romania. Million Romanians are sparse.What we lack to become a strong nation? Union only union! ... Long live but union Romania! ... ".

Statuia him Costache Negri Galati

5. Palace of Navigation - River station is current and designed by architect Petre Antonescu.

Palace of Navigation in Galati

6. Lupa Capitolina - The monument is erected in front of the Lower Danube University, next to City Hall and is a copy made by sculptor George Terescenco after statue in Bucharest, graced by the Municipality of Rome in 1906.

Lupa Capitolina din Galati

7. Vovidenia Church - is a historical and architectural monument and was founded in 1790 on the site of another church. Here is the tomb Smaranda Cuza Alexandru Ioan Cuza mother.

Biserica Vovidenia Galati

8. University Palace - was the Palace of Justice (built between 1911-1913), is the seat of the University and ranks foremost in the old city's architectural landscape due to its monumentality. The building was designed by architect Gregory Cerchez and Barnabas.

Galati University Palace

9. Lyric Theatre Nae Leonard - was founded in 1956 and organizes annual Music Days Galatians , when they are presented to the public the most representative of the repertoire titles of all genres. Puppet show was institutionalized in Galati in 1952 by setting up Puppet Theatre Gulliver in Gulliver Festival is organized every year, one of the most important of its kind in Romania.

Nae Leonard Liric Teatrul Galati

10. Restaurant Television Tower - is at an altitude of 100 meters and was built in 1978. This is a landmark of the city and is a rarity in the form of aerodynamics but beneath the dome of TV relay. Who wants to eat and at the same time admire the Danube and the height Galati has this possibility in TV Tower in Galati. Television Tower restaurant is located at the highest altitude in Romania and has a quoted international premises situated at higher altitudes can be found only in Berlin and Toronto.

Television Tower Restaurant Galati

11. History Museum - opened in 1939 and is based on Paul and Catherine Pasa primary school collection. Subsequently, it was added to the illustrious scholar collection Vasile Alexandrescu ear founder of the library that bears his name, a collection that included items paleontology, archeology, numismatics, ethnography, etc.. Galati History Museum has today more than 50,000 goods and includes standalone sections Museum "Casa Cuza Voda" Memorial House "Costache Negri" (from MANJINA) itself and Lapidary Museum site. museum collections include parts and tools from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron property belonging to Greek and Roman culture, medieval numismatics.Included are documents, old books, art, decorative, Romanian philatelic value, stitching and fabrics peasant, peasant industry tools and accessories, parts, equipment, tools and industrial machines. Department Lapidary is a unique exhibition space in the country, which are exhibited large objects: sarcophagi,altars from Sendreni (it contains the inscription Lucius Julius et qui Iulianus Rundacio) Inhimatie Tomb of Innocens (discovered in 1979 in the resort archaeological Tirighina men, which can be considered the first evidence of Christianity in the Lower Danube), fragments of Roman columns, Roman and Byzantine amphorae, materials belonging tegular industry (tiles, tiles, bricks) with stamp Cohors II MATTIACORUM, etc. funerary stelae.

Galati History Museum

12. Visual Art Museum - the first museum of contemporary art in Romania and has been specifically designed to present new trends of the twentieth century plastic, which keeps destination today. The museum contains 400 works displayed in the museum halls or in the park as well as a collection belonging to the interwar period: Pallady Petrascu Stefan Dumitrescu, Tonitza Darascu, Lucian Grigorescu, masts, etc..Romanian avant-garde is represented by names like Victor Brauner, Maxy, Irina Codreanu, Milita Petrascu or Mattis Teutsch. Also paintings by Ion Tuculescu, Corneliu Baba, Al. Ciucurencu or sculptures Ion Ion Irimescu mourning and affirmed generation marks the mid-twentieth century.

Visual Art Museum Galati

13. Greek Church - was built in 1866 and is dedicated to the Transfiguration . In the narthex was added marble plaque with the names of founders and two marble plates with the names of founders and major benefactors. Form church is the cross inscribed with the tower and has two bell towers on the west side. The painting was made by the painter Papadopoulos of Adrianople. On the iconostasis are large icons representing the Holy Virgin Mary with Child, Resurrection, St. Gerasimos, St. Sophia, St. Gregory and St. Basil the Great. Contain eight stained glass church windows with holy apostles Peter, Andrew, Mark, Thomas, Bartholomew and Luke on the northern side and Paul Simon, John, James and Philip on the southern side.

Greek Church Galati

14. Administrative Palace - was inaugurated on April 27, 1906 was built by architect Ion Mincu and, today, is the seat of Galati County Prefect. The main façade of the Palace, at the top level, there are two statues made of white marble - Industry andAgriculture , the sculptor Frederic Storck. At the bottom are two bronze flags in the county and the gable building there is a large-scale clock.

Administrative Palace in Galati

15. Waterfront - is one of the key areas Galati, being a promenade for proper both city residents and tourists. The cliff is held concerts and sports competitions, it offers great potential for relaxation and leisure by swimming pools, green areas and sports facilities.

Waterfront in Galati

16. Macri House - was built in 1910 and is a unique construction in Romania. The building possesses Venice chandeliers, curtains woven with gold thread, handmade carpets in Europe, rare pieces of furniture, made on special order from a famous company in England. All these were once in the building that now works Pasha nightclub.

Casa Macri Galati

17. Natural Sciences Museum Complex - Museum aims: research and conservation of biodiversity of natural ecosystems, enriching scientific heritage, promotion of projects for monitoring environmental pollution. Environmental education for nature conservation is achieved by modern exhibition projects in various stages of execution and Botanical Garden , Aquarium , Planetarium , Zoo , Aquatic Ecosystems, etc..

Galati Natural Sciences Museum Complex

18. Robescu house - built in the second half of the nineteenth century after architect Ion Mincu, currently the Children's Palace . The building has a raised basement, two floors with two towers-floor balcony to another balcony and ground floor facing the street. The exterior decorations of niches with cufflinks, belt brancovenesc style - the twisted rope, polished ceramic tiles. Burnished pottery is used to decorate flower upper register.

Home Robescu Galati

19. St. Nicholas Church - plane has the shape of the vessel and is divided by two rows of columns. On the west wall and the first two octagonal columns support the church steeple Pantocrator with circular section. Carved wooden iconostasis separates the rest of the church apse. The painting was restored after 1980, very flashy colors. Outside the church has several decorative Greek: ADOS Doric columns, triangular pediments and denticles. Foundation is the river rocks, bricks, wood framing and roof covering sheet. Some of the icons of the church come from demolished churches: Saint George and Saint Friday.

20. House Cuza Voda - was home in Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza was president of the Court as Covurlui, Parcalab Covurlui the county and even in the reign, during visits to Galati.  In 1937 was founded Cuza Voda House Association , in order to redeem the former home of the first ruler of the United Principalities, to turn it into a museum.In 1938 the house was bought and restored and opened on 24 January 1939 the Museum "Casa Cuza Voda" that works today.

Casa Cuza Voda Galati

21. Orthodox Cathedral - Episcopal Cathedral of Galati is built in Byzantine style, with influences from cult Moldavian architecture. The church has an exterior length of 37 meters and a height of 42, 5 meters. Cathedral has an open porch columns, narthex, nave, chancel and side apses are embedded in wall thickness.The foundation is visible from blocks of carved stone and open porch is supported by double columns and arches trilobite. The church is heated by a waist tape to 1/3 the height of the walls and a waist torsade above the windows. Small alcoves lined in strong cornice profile. The church has a large dome and two smaller nave nave.Inside is paved with slabs of red and white Carrara marble and painted in fresco.The painting originally belonged to Costin Petrescu. The iconostasis is made of brick and girdles of Carrara marble. The pulpit is from the same marble and solid brass chandeliers.

22. Statue of Mihai Eminescu -

Statue of Mihai Eminescu Galati

23. Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel - is an important foundation of the Moldavian style elements later in which there are the influences of Wallachian architecture. The church is built in the shape of a cross, the interior is divided into the sanctuary, nave and narthex. It has a dark porch, built perpendicular to the north side, above which is a large dome clogged (blind). The iconostasis of carved wood covered with gold. The narthex has a balcony for the choir. Current tempera painting is painted by Anatoly Cudinov in Bucharest. The old painter belonged Galati Toader Falco was executed in 1816. The church keeps the other icons painted on wood, very valuable, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.

Biserica Sfintii Arhangheli Mihail si Gavriil Galati