2. The geographic framewok…
• After it crosses the Europe, a little bit tired for road ,the
Danube calms her waters, shakes her shoulders on the soil
and find out our city ,Galatz, as a gift of her millennial
existance. Located on the north shore of the Danube
,situated in the south-est of Romania, in the extreme
southern part of the Moldavian plateau, Galatz lies at the
intersection of three Romanian historical provinces:
Moldavia, Tara Romaneasca and Dobrogea. It’s location at
the cross of many old roads and waters made Galatz,
since the past times ,a city of navigators and fishers and
therewith , a commercial centre, making time, the main
river port of our country!
3. Relief
• The form of the city is almost
triangular,having the Danube in the south ,at
sunrise the Brates Lake and the Prut River
and at the sunset the Siret River. In Galatz
we can find two big forms of relief of the
country, Moldovian Plateau and the Romanian
Plain which offers you a view with small
hights!
• The most important physico-geographical unit
is still de Danube Meadow, which crosses de
Meadow of Siret and Prut!
4. Climate
• In terms of climate, this is a temperate-continental one
,showing big differences of temperature between winter and
summer .In plain ,the temperature is higher than in the hilly
area. In the two meadows, Siret and Prut ,temperatures
register with 1-2 degrees more ,and the direction of the
wind is oriented along that valley. Annual average
temperature is 10.3 degrees Celsius. The absolute
maximum has been reached in august,1904(39 degrees
Celsius) ,and the absolute minimum has been reached in
february,1927(-28.6 degrees Celsius). Between the winds
which blow in our province, the most important is the
Crivat one. It blows from north-est and brings, in
winter, arid frost and snowstorms ,and in the summer rare
rains and hot and sticky weather.
5. The vegetation and fauna
The vegetation is the result of interference of area of
influence East-European, southern and atlantical
The forest steppe vegetation is dominating in the About the
north of the province being composed of grassland fish, Prut and
and small forests made up of oaks and lindens. In the Siret are
slop area and in the meadows and we meet a rich populated by
hydrofoil flora, in addition an aquatic vegetation, carps, zanders
diverse and interesting, attractive by some beauties and rarely the
which are hidden by it and soft grass meadows and catfish!
foxtail.
Fauna belongs the steppe and the forest steppe steppe
which characterizes the south of Moldavia, as well
as of the meadows biotope and slops .In the north of
the province we can meet the boar and the deer ,on
the Frost Valley we can se the bustard and in the
area from city we have forest steppe fauna
characterized by rodents, like ground squirrel,
hamster. Among the birds, you can find out the
quail, the partridge ,the skylark and at last de water
birds(ducks, storks)
6. The coat of arms of the municipality and
province Galati
The coat of arms of the city Galati is a shield
divided by a waft girdle made of silver; to the top, on a
blue background, is a black ship with two masts having
the blades and the banners made of silver surfing on a
water;
Lower field, cleated: at right, on the red background, two
fish made of silver, lifted the ends of their heads towards
the flanks of the shield; in the second quarter, on gold
background, a black Caduceus. The shield is postaged by
a mural crown made of silver, format which consists in
sever towers .The ship from the top reminds us of the fact
that this city is an important port on the Danube; The
fish nightlight the role of this port in the development of
the fishing ;the Caduceus is the attribute of the Mercury
god, who is the God of the commerce!
7. Account people of Galatz
• In this category we can put the writer and the politic man
Costache Negri; playwriter, music criticist, pianist and composer
Grigore Ventura; publisher Ioan Nadejde; the writer with a
pointed spirit of criticise Raicu Ionescu-Rion; the teacher,the
roman historian and writer Vasile Alexandrescu Urechia (the
founder of the library that bears his name),the Boxer Lucian
Bute(the champion of the world, in prezent), the composer and
the musicologist Dimitrie Cuclin; the master of skydiving
Angela Nastase; the gymnast Gabi Gheorghiu; the
weight lifter Nicu Vlad; Anghel Saligny the the founder
of the Romanian engineering; Paul Bujor the creator of the
Romanian school of the animal physiology.
• The personalities who had been claimed by their activity is much
longer, but even we can’t mention all of them they will remain in
our hearts for ever!
8. Ways to
acces
• Railway path
• Cruise route
• The path of the road-230km to our
capital, Bucharest.The duration of your
trip it is on average,3 hours. One of the
routes that you can reach the capital is
este: Galati-Braila-Buzau-Afumati-
Voluntari-Bucuresti.
