Implications for the development

REACŢIA AUTORITĂŢILOR CONSTĂNŢENE ÎN SITUAŢIILE DE DISTRUGERE 
A PATRIMONIULUI CULTURAL MATERIAL DOBROGEAN (2008–2020)
Summary. The reaction of the Constanta authorities to the situation of destruction of the ma-
terial cultural heritage of Dobrogea (2008–2020). 
During 2008–2020, several scandals took place 
in Constanța County, related to the phenomena of destruction of the cultural heritage of Constanța 
County. From these, we selected 4 that we considered to be more representative. We presented these 
reprehensible cases because they are emblematic of the way the authorities in this county react to the 
violation by investors of the legislation in force regarding the protection of heritage. In the first case, 
this is the fact that an Italian foundation requested the approval of the execution of seven copies after 
the original metopes to be presented in an exhibition in Florence. With the complicity of the director 
of MINAC and the Director of the Culture Department, the work was carried out in violation of the 
legislation in the field. In the second case, the Autostrada business, an apartment company of a DJC-
CPCN employee, manages to take over the unloading of three sections of the Bucharest-Constanța 
highway. The implication of awarding the contract is broadly explained as follows: how – somehow 
Astaldi assigns the archaeological research / discharge contract to Deprom, and not to the Archaeo-
logical Museum, but Deprom can only do the work with specialized employees of the museum. So 
Deprom concludes a contract with MINA, but is careful not to pay too much for the services provided 
by the employee, in this regard mentioning in documents an extremely vague term – „manual dig-
ging”, which does not include technical drawings, photographs or surveys topographic, things that 
normally complete the picture of the works that are done in the given. In the Hunchiar business, the 
director Virgil Lungu issued an opinion (opinion 1012 / Z / 09.07.2008), which allowed the investor 
to approach up to 1.21 m from the wall of the place of worship, which he did. This situation led to the 
appearance of cracks in the wall of the Hunchiar mosque monument. In January 2020, an association 
from Constanta, „Verde Urban”, published on a social network a video made on Tomis Boulevard, 
no. 49 A, where a construction site is opened in order to erect an office building by Bueno Comp 
SRL. They claimed the existence of bulldozers that would endanger an archeological site. „A contest 
of circumstances (a strange opinion of the Minister of Culture, the vote for local councilors) led to 
the dubious approval of this project to build a building near the Court of Constanta, 10 meters from 
Lupoaica and the entrance to Ovidiu Square, over the remains archeological sites of great historical 
and patrimonial value. It shows in the images ancient walls, a possible tunnel… all will be destroyed 
by the equipment brought on a Saturday, just to minimize the reactions of the people”.