Beneath Corabia, around the former village of Celei, lie the remains of Sucidava, an ancient Dacian and Daco-Roman town and fortress.

Near the town, Emperor Constantine the Great built the longest European bridge over the Danube (2,437 m (7,995 ft)).

Corabia is located in the southern part of Olt County, on the left bank of the Danube, on the border with Bulgaria.

The town houses a football club, several shops and bars, the remains of the Roman castrum Sucidava, dating back to the Roman period and featuring the "Secret Fountain" (an unusual piece of engineering); the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (one of the largest buildings of its kind in Romania), as well a monumental statue in the middle of the town square commemorating the use of Corabia's facilities in the initial attack during the Romanian War of Independence of 1877.

Corabia also has an important archaeological museum with, inter alia, a remarkable collection of Roman pottery.