Evening Transportation from Constanta to Vama Veche FROM MK

Meeting & pickup – Gara, Constanța 900178, Romania – Constanta Railway station at 9’PM every Saturday evening starting with 28.06 till 20.09

Price/person: 25 Euro – including return transportation

You will see someone with a red sign on with the inscription “ALMA” and there will be a picture with a red heart. We will go straight to Vama Veche, but it is possible to make also a scenic drive through some resorts, depending on the events which take place on the road and how crowded the traffic is.

The village of Vama Veche was founded in 1811. During the communist dictatorship, the village was not visited by tourists. The phenomenon of “Vama Veche” (good music, bohemian spirit, a certain intellectual touch) arose in the 70s, when Cluj-Napoca’s Babeș-Bolyai University sent professors to relax here every summer. They arrived in organized groups by bus and stayed in the homes of local people. At that time about 70 families lived in the village. The university students ate daily in the canteen set up by the university (now an abandoned building), where dishes were prepared by chefs who also came from Cluj. The University of Cluj also built two showers with very large water tanks mounted on poles. One shower was installed in the courtyard of the canteen, the other was on the way to the beach and the former casemate. In the evening they gathered on the beach, where bonfires were made, discussions were held and Romanian, French and English songs were played on the guitar. The groups changed every ten days. Filming was also carried out in Vama Veche for various Romanian films. This openness, brought by the Cluj intellectuals and the Romanian actors, created the intellectual-bohemian atmosphere of the place during this period and offered the locals the opportunity to come into contact with high-quality events and people.

Elena Ceaușescu, the wife of the former dictator, who was traveling to Bulgaria with an official convoy, during a visit in the summer of 1988, was deeply disturbed by the appearance of the fishing village (a place with reeds and puddles, with few inhabitants, mostly poor people) and decided to demolish the houses. The action began in 1989 when a few more wealthy houses, the school and the church disappeared and the entire village was to be razed to the ground. Locals stayed in their homes during the demolition to save them and force the authorities to leave them alone. Some of them suffered heart attacks in their own homes when the demolition bulldozer came near them. Luckily, the Romanian Revolution of 1989 managed to save the village from destruction. Immediately after the revolution, some enterprising families from Ploieşti and Bucharest came here and founded the first small local businesses, restaurants or eateries, which today have developed and changed a lot.

Until the late 1990s, Vama Veche was known as a fishing village whose beach was little known to tourists and was most popular with nudists. However, in the last 10 years, the place has experienced a strong influx of tourists, which has completely changed its old appearance with the emergence of new buildings and commercial spaces.

Reservations and information only by message: 0740630207

Price/person: 25 Euro – including transportation