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 Halmyris Fortress - Roman and Roman-Byzantine fortress, founded on an area with inhabitancy traces from VI-I B.C., passed through many evolutionary stages: Roman earth defence works (last quarter of I A.D.); rock Roman camp – headquarters of legions I Italica and XI Claudia Pia Fidelis vexilla and station of Classis Flavia Moesica - (beginning of II A.D.– third quarter of III A.D.) – fact proved by the inscriptions discovered at the North-Western Gate, which are telling about a vicus classicorum; Later Roman fortress (third quarter of III – first quarter of VII A.D.).

The Roman-Byzantine fortress, in a trapezoidal shape, had a surface of 2 ha, 15 towers, 3 gates and 3 precincts walls. The main discovered and partial restored vestiges are: Northern Gate; North-Western Gate (monumental?); Western Gate; Thermae; Building nr.1; the Palaeo-Christian basilica cu the martyrs’ crypt, unearthed in 2001, which contained the bones of the martyrs Epictet and Astion, killed at the time of Diocletian.
Beginning with 2000, the fortress was registered in the Restoration National Plan.


Traditional architecture – the architectural decoration which imposes, in a certain way, the local specific, is characterised by the presence, on the houses gable, of the motifs which send to old Slave faiths (mermaid, fish, sun rays) or reveal the basic occupations of Romanians and Ukraineans (fish, life tree, twig).