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Neptun is a summer resort on the Romanian seacoast, on the Black Sea, six kilometres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles) north of Mangalia. It is part of a string of such resorts, Olimp , Jupiter , Cap Aurora , and Venus .
Olimp is a summer resort on the Romanian seacoast, on the Black Sea, 7 km (4.3 mi) north of Mangalia.The Comorova forest is near the summer resort. It has a tall ...
Completed in 1972, the resort has two major beaches: Adras beach, located in the northern part of the resort, closer to Venus, and Diana beach in the south, located near the town of Mangalia.
The Neptune Public Bath (Romanian: Baia Publică Neptun or Băile Neptun), also known as the Neptune Palace (Romanian: Palatul Neptun), is a historic building in the Fabric district of Timișoara, Romania. Originally a spa, today the building hosts office spaces, a luxury restaurant and around 20 apartments in the so-called Bloc Neptun.
The Neptune is a ship replica of a fictional 17th-century galleon designed by Naval Architect David Cannell. The ship was built in 1985 for Roman Polanski's film Pirates, where she portrayed the Spanish ship of the same name.
[2] The statue occupied half the width of the aisle of the temple built to house it. The geographer Strabo noted early in the 1st century BC that the statue gave "the impression that if Zeus arose and stood erect he would unroof the temple." [3] The Zeus was a chryselephantine sculpture, made with ivory and gold panels on a wooden substructure.
[note 1] By far the largest of them is Triton, discovered by William Lassell on 10 October 1846, 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself. Over a century passed before the discovery of the second natural satellite, Nereid , in 1949, and another 40 years passed before Proteus , Neptune's second-largest moon, was discovered in 1989.
Naiad / ˈ n eɪ ə d /, (also known as Neptune III and previously designated as S/1989 N 6) named after the naiads of Greek legend, [10] is the innermost satellite of Neptune and the nearest to the center of any gas giant with moons with a distance of 48,224 km from the planet's center. Its orbital period is less than a Neptunian day ...