Alexandria

The seat of Teleorman county, Alexandria is a planned town, founded in 1834 and named after Prince Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica, on the open plain of the southern Danube. Its regular grid of streets and squares recalls the clear thinking behind its origin, in an age when new towns rose according to plan.

The Saint Alexander cathedral dominates the centre with its presence, while the Teleorman County Museum preserves the traces of a land with deep prehistoric roots, tied to the Gumelnița culture, one of the great Neolithic civilisations of the south. Alexandria remains a town of fertile plain, where recent history rests upon layers thousands of years old.