DANUBE-BLACK SEA CANAL

The road from Constanţa to Cernavodă, via Murfatlar, runs along the Black Sea Canal to the Danube. Also visible from the train that connects the capital to Constanţa, it was built in the 1950s and put into service in the 1980s. This 64.5 km long pharaonic project cost the lives of thousands of workers. Those who were called "volunteers" to carry out this "heroic project" for a "great Romania" were in reality peasants who refused collectivization, political opponents, Greek-Catholic priests.