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Galati County Council

Galati County Council is the authority of the local public administration that coordinates the activity of the commune, city and municipal councils, with a view to carrying out public services of interest within the Galati County, including education, culture, tourism, as well as domestic and foreign interinstitutional cooperation.

The Galati County Council is composed of 34 county councillors elected by universal, equal, direct, secret and freely expressed suffrage, under the law for the election of local public administration authorities. The county council shall be completed with the chairman of the county council, also elected under the law for the election of local public administration authorities, who shall have the right to vote and conduct its meetings. The president of the Galati County Council and the county counsellors are elected for a four-year term which is carried out under the law.

The executive apparatus of Galati County Council consists of six directorates, three services and four compartments. The six specialised committees in the Council are organised by areas of activity. The specialized directorates of the Council are made up of professionals from various fields: administrative, economic, technical, project management.

The Council's managerial capacity has often been demonstrated by the successful implementation of numerous projects, both with own funding and funding from various sources.

General Presentation of Galati County

Galati County is located in the southeast of Romania, at the confluence of the Danube with two major rivers - Siret and Prut - being relatively close to the Black Sea. On an area of 4,466.3 km2, Galati County is composed of 65 localities and a population of about 627,000 inhabitants. The most important urban settlement at the county level is represented by the county residence municipality, Galati.

Galati County has a high cultural potential. Those interested in learning the historical past and the beautiful cultural find in Galati an impressive diversity of cultural institutions that provide a true heritage inviting you to discover the treasures that the area still hides. Moreover, Galati County has a number of unique cultural and tourist attractions both in the country and in the world. Rare pieces that can be admired in Galati include the in-situ tomb of Innocens, III-IV A.D., the first Daco-Roman Christian discovered on the territory of Romania, a functional car from 1898 De-Dion-Bouton brand and the oldest bread in the world, made in 1892.

Galati can also boast with the longest cliffs on the entire Danube, with important theatres and museums, historical relics and famous people.

A special landmark that can be found near the cliff is "Precista fortified Church", which is architecturally one-of-a-kind in this part of the country through its inner fortifications.

Galati can boast with the important number of museums, so the organization of a museum circuit in Galati County can be described as a foray between past and present.

"Paul Paltanea" Museum of History in the municipality of Galati is the holder of a heritage of inestimable value, totalling more than 60,000 assets constituted in collections of archaeology, numismatics, ethnography, philately, medallions, decorative arts, old and rare books, sigillography, cold-steel and fire weapons, documents, photos, clichés and films. Valuable exhibits are also presented to the public in specially designed spaces at the History Museum's headquarters or in one of its sections.

"Casa Cuza Voda" Museum in Galati municipality is located on the site of the former residence of the family of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, in a building built in the first decades of the 19th century. Furniture from the most representative styles of the era, decorative European pieces, objects that belonged to local and national personalities, all take you to the famous hosts of old. In such an atmosphere, the proper environment to manifestations that became tradition was created, reminiscent of the cultural soirees of yore, which impose a city normality of European rank.

The "House of Collections" Museum (former Tinc pharmacy) hosts interior ambient exhibitions and memorial collections, among which the "George Makşay" collection - Royal Court supplier and luxury photographer of Galati - and the "Smaranda Braescu" collection - the first patented female paratrooper in Romania. The building, built in 1900, was intended as a pharmacy, and at the upper levels was the home of pharmacist Constantin Tinc and space allocated to the attending personnel.

"Hortensia Papadat Bengescu" House in the commune of Ivesti hosts the exhibition "Ivesti Personalities", which contains documentary materials and objects that belonged to the prose writer and to prominent members of the culture and history of Iveşti. The house was built between 1872 and 1874, where writer Hortensia Papadat Bengescu lived for a period of her life.

"Ion Avram-Dunareanu" Rural House in Suhurlui commune hosts the "Traditional Peasant Ambient" exhibition, which recomposes the characteristic interior of village world by preserving the specific features of Romanian culture and the scientific exploitation of cultural ethnographic items. The ethnography collection of the Galati History Museum exceeds a thousand cultural items and consists of: fabrics, tools and instruments used in the practice of weaving, iron and wood processing, objects reminiscent of the basic occupations of the village world, such as land cultivation, animal husbandry, as well as objects of worship.

"Costache Negri" Memorial House in Costache Negri commune is located in the mansion that belonged to the family of the great patriot. When stepping on the museum threshold, the visitor enters a specific, 19th century atmosphere of the. Furniture and decorative art pieces from famous European styles, paintings, photographs and documents relevant to the life and work of Costache Negri can be found in the seven exhibition halls.

The Lapidarium section presents collections of archaeology, Romanian and European environment, traditional civilization.

The Museum of Visual Art in Galati is also an extremely popular tourist attraction, being the first Romanian museum of "contemporary art" to present to the public important works from different periods bearing the signatures of famous artists. The museum was inaugurated in 1967 and contains an impressive number of heritage works, that are regularly used in exhibitions organized by the institution. At the same time, the museum also organizes temporary exhibitions, creation camps and other types of events that promote Romanian and universal art and cultural values.

Art harmoniously mingled with nature in Galati, including "Rasvan Angheluta" Museum Complex of Natural Sciences. It was founded in 1990 and comprises a variety of sections.

The Museum Section of the Museum Complex offers for visitation to the public, through permanent or temporary exhibitions, important collections of geology, mineralogy, Ichthyology and biology, which total more than 60,000 scientific pieces.

The aquarium is located at the semibasement of the Museum Complex building and comprises an impressive collection of fish species from the basin of the Lower Danube River, the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the tropical freshwater ichthyofauna. In short, a living world depicted in a wide range of shapes, colours and sizes.

The Botanical Garden is a fascinating place, full of colour and floristic diversity, a relaxing place where you actually feel like you are loading up on energy, an oasis of tranquillity on an area of 18 hectares.

The astronomical observatory is the largest and most modern observatory in Romania. Equipped with a roll-off roof and telescope, it allows solar and nocturnal astronomical observations, and the projection room offers tourists the opportunity to imaginarily travel to all corners of the universe.

The Zoo, located in the Garboavele Forest, Tuluceşti Commune, is home to a varied collection of animal, mammal and bird species from several geographical regions of the world (Europe, Asia and Africa).

Soon, the Complex’s offer will be complemented by a greenhouse for tropical plants and a permanent exhibition for the Prut-Danube fishing area where, with the help of technology, visitors can take a virtual flight over the Prut and Danube Floodplain.

Hitting the road through the county, steps take you both to the imposing houses of worship from Tudor Vladimirescu and Buciumeni, as well as to "Teodor Cincu" History Museum in Tecuci. The museum holds the most significant part of the archaeological heritage discovered at Poiana, the ancient fortress of Piroboridava. The building itself is an architectural monument, being built in the second half of the 19th century by an Italian architect. The museum currently houses Neolithic, Bronze Age (Monteoru ceramics), the Iron Age (supply ships), warehouses of Dacian ornaments and weapons (4th 3rd centuries BC), a hoard of coins issued by the Fortress of Callatis, of gilded bronze (3rd century BC) and many more worth seeing.

The building that today houses the Museum of Christian History, Culture and Spirituality on the Lower Danube was built at the end of the 19th century and was inaugurated as the Episcopal Palace in 1901. The museum holds a spectacular collection of garments, holy vessels, books and other personal objects of the lower Danube hierarchies, original liturgical pieces, icons, paintings etc.

But Galati also means theatre or musical festivals for all ages: puppet performances for children, comedy, opera and operetta, as well as folklore and fanfare. All of these are just a few things Galati has to offer.

The county also has a number of outdoor tourist attractions that cater to nature lovers. Whether we are talking about the Garboavele Forest as a recreational area or as a protected area, or Zatun leisure area or Vanatori lake, all this complements Galati’s touristic offer, so that visitors can spend quality time and retain unforgettable memories.

Project results - Galati County Council