Close to the terminus of the  Casino promenade, close to what is now the touristic Tomis Harbour, in the ’40s there was a machine gun nest. It’s totally invisible from up the promenade, so its existence is pretty unknown.

It’s a turret type WW2 machine gun nest that use to handle most of the East part of the shore. The fortification was “carved” in the massive seafront dam and its configuration is different as compared with the bunkers and the pillboxes of the Casino’s vicinity.
I made it inside through the firing window, an opening of only 43 cm high, but with a very wide horizontally angle, North to South.

The fortification featured a vertical shaft of 120 cm diameter, which allowed the planting or lifting turret in case of repairs. Not knowing the model of the weapon, it is hard to say whether operator’s access was made through this hole, hidden today with a sewer lid. It is certain that, after the war, the turret was decommissioned and extracted via the same shaft it was installed before, when Romania was fighting along the Axis.
The next image display the location of the turret and rail where the turret was sliding . The turret shaft rail has a diameter of 100 cm and is one of the few metal objects that have survived the decades.