The monuments of religious culture spreading within the areal between the Danube River and the Black Sea, that means within the historical province of Dobrogea, represent a great attraction for all those who are interested in getting closer to the first Christians on the territory of Romania. Our study is based upon the analysis of the important historical monuments that exist in this province, on the behavior of the tourists visiting them, as well as on the attitude of the residents in the sense of sustaining the development of the religious tourism. On the methodological perspective, there are followed many aspects, as there is made the empirical analysis of the questionnaires applied to the residents and tourists as well. The results highlight differentiated attraction of the tourists towards the monuments that preserve the traces of the first Christian martyrs, of the religious monuments bearing outstanding spiritual value as compared to the ones destined to religious service only. Their old age and spirituality contribute to the amplification of the pilgrimage phenomenon and to the increase of the numbers of touristic visits, especially for the tourist coming for the first time in those places. The role of the residents should get bigger and bigger in maintaining this phenomenon, which is a thing which people are less conscious about. Therefore, the tourism-purposed infrastructure does not have the same upheaving evolution. The two elements, the religious attraction relying in the number of tourists who visit the religious monuments of Dobrogea, on the first hand, and the accommodation structures, the public food service providers, as well as the number of employees functioning in the tourism sector of the referred province, on the other hand, they both present different evolution trends.

The evaluation of the archeological and cultural potential represent essential elements of designing a complex study that may generate effects upon the durable tourism in a certain geographical area. The research aims to identify the monuments that are capable to satisfy the requirements imposed by the cultural and tourism-purposed activities by: accessibility, originality, old age, conservation state or maintenance or level of rehabilitation and promotion. The geographical areal under analysis is the historical and geographical province of Dobrogea, in Romania. It is a historical province of great value, while the present monuments have a particular feature connected to their old age, as well as certain particularities connected to their multi-ethnicity co-existing in this geographical areal. The methodology follows firstly the Cultural Monument List made up by the Ministry of Culture of Romania. On the second stage, there follows the analysis, on the field, of each monument enlisted and the establishment of the degree of cultural and tourism-purposed valorization, in compliance with the criteria already specified. The results of the study shows first of all a difference between the number of cultural monuments present, the value of which is undoubtedly extremely high, and the degree of valorization they benefit of. The exigencies of the tourists do not allow their being introduced and used into the tourism-purposed circuit or in the tourism offers regarding the monuments that have a very low degree of accessibility, originality and rehabilitation level.

The tourist presentations have the role of attractig attention due to the uniqueness of the information provided. Heraldic compositions are quite appealing and can become important elements in the discourse of a tourist presentation. Our study aims to highlight the coats of arms and the flag embroidered, sewn, engraved, painted, sculpted, cast or moulded, woven, objects that exist at the St. Gheorghe-Nou Church in Bucharest, the place where, among others, there are buried the rulers of Wallachia, Constantin Brancoveanu (1688-1714) and Ioan Mavrocordat (1716-1719). The funeral service of the poet Mihai Eminescu took place at this church, which is famous as a monument of Brancoveanu art in the Romanian capital-city. For the preparation of this study we have researched the church building, the bell, the frontispiece, the inscription, the perforated railings of the front porch and the staircase at the back entrance, the tombstone of Constantin Brâncoveanu's tomb, the scraper cover lid of the tomb containing the relics of Constantin Brâncoveanu, a few tetrapodes, the iconostasis, the carpet, the tablecloths, the curtains and the special curtain (the church flag) inside it. Regarding the actual description of the different types of coats of arms and the flag, we have complied with the heraldic and vexillological norms. We have taken into account the interest that these testimonies may arise in tourists, pilgrims, teachers, pupils and students alike, especially since the vexillological and heraldic sources can serve both to a better understanding of some historical phenomena and to distinguishing the symbols by which the ctitors and artists expressed their thoughts and aspirations. Our study is an impetus for the detection, analysis and placement in the scientific circuit and other sources of this kind, still unknown to tourists and to the general public.