# Tourist attractions in Romania

> All the tourist attractions in Romania, with opening hours, prices, visit duration and a map — search and filter by category, price and rating.

359 attractions

- [Bran Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-bran) — Castles and palaces · Bran, BV · 120 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 20
  A medieval fortress built by the people of Brașov on a rock in the Bran Pass, later Queen Marie's summer residence and known around the world as “Dracula's Castle”.
- [Corvin Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-corvinilor) — Castles and palaces · Hunedoara, HD · 55 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 20
  John Hunyadi's Gothic residence, on a rock above the Zlaști river and reached by a long bridge on stone piers; inside, vaulted halls and towers from the 15th century.
- [Slănic Prahova Salt Mine](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/salina-slanic-prahova) — Salt mines · Slănic, PH · 60 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 20
  The Unirea mine, dug between 1938 and 1970, is a string of 14 salt halls over 50 m high, 208 m underground, which you reach by minibus; 100 km from Bucharest.
- [Danube Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-dunarii) — Deltas · Tulcea County · 5 lei/day · 7½ – 8 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20
  Europe's largest wetland, a biosphere reserve and UNESCO site: channels, lakes, reed beds and over 300 bird species, from pelicans to egrets; visited by boat from Tulcea.
- [Transalpina](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/transalpina) — Scenic roads · Gorj County · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 20
  Romania's highest road: the DN67C climbs from Novaci over the Parâng Mountains to 2,145 m at the Urdele Pass and drops past Lake Oașa to Sebeș, 148 km above the clouds.
- [Transfăgărășan](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/transfagarasan) — Scenic roads · Argeș County · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 20
  The DN7C crosses the Făgăraș Mountains for 151 km, from the Vidraru dam up to the glacial Bâlea Lake at 2,042 m, then winds down in hairpin bends into Transylvania.
- [Peleș Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-peles) — Castles and palaces · Sinaia, PH · 100 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 20
  King Carol I's summer residence, built between 1873 and 1914 at the foot of the Bucegi Mountains in Sinaia, with carved wooden interiors, armouries and stained glass.
- [Sighișoara Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-sighisoara) — Fortresses and fortifications · Sighișoara, MS · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20
  A Saxon-built, still-inhabited medieval walled town on a hill above the Târnava Mare, with guild towers and the famous Clock Tower; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
- [Turda Salt Mine](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/salina-turda) — Salt mines · Turda, CJ · 75 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 20
  A salt mine worked from the Middle Ages until 1932 and turned into a spectacular underground park: a Ferris wheel, a lake with rowing boats, an amphitheatre and salt walls 120 m below ground, near Cluj.
- [Voroneț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-voronet) — Monasteries and churches · Voroneț, SV · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20
  The church founded by Stephen the Great in 1488, painted on the outside with the Last Judgment on a background of "Voroneț blue"; a UNESCO site near Gura Humorului.
- [Biertan Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-biertan) — Monasteries and churches · Biertan, SB · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20
  The Saxon church on the hill in the middle of the village, guarded by three rings of walls and towers; inside, Romania's largest polyptych altarpiece and a door with a lock from 1515.
- [Merry Cemetery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cimitirul-vesel) — Monuments and historic sites · Săpânța, MM · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 20
  The cemetery in Săpânța with over 800 oak crosses painted blue, showing naive scenes from the lives of those buried there and witty epitaphs in verse; begun in 1935 by the craftsman Stan Ioan Pătraș.
- [Palace of the Parliament](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-parlamentului) — Castles and palaces · București · 85 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 20
  The heaviest building in the world, raised by Ceaușescu in the 1980s on Spirii Hill; the guided tour passes through marble-clad state rooms hung with crystal chandeliers weighing several tonnes.
- [ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilisation](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-civilizatiei-populare-traditionale-astra) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 50 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 20
  Romania's largest open-air museum, in the Dumbrava forest outside Sibiu: over 300 houses, mills, workshops and wooden churches brought from across the country, along ~10 km of paths.
- [Alba Carolina Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-alba-carolina) — Fortresses and fortifications · Alba Iulia, AB · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 20
  Romania's largest bastion fortress, a seven-pointed star built by the Habsburgs in 1715–1738 at Alba Iulia; baroque gates, cathedrals, the Union Hall and a changing of the guard, all with free access.
- [Făgăraș Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-fagarasului) — Fortresses and fortifications · Făgăraș, BV · 30 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 20
  A moated, bastioned fortress in the centre of Făgăraș, seat of the princes of Transylvania in the 17th century and now home to the Făgăraș Land Museum.
- [Sarmizegetusa Regia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sarmizegetusa-regia) — Fortresses and fortifications · Grădiștea de Munte, HD · 30 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20
  The capital of the Dacian kingdom, hidden in the beech forests of the Orăștie Mountains: the walls of Decebalus's fortress, the paved road and the sacred area with andesite and limestone sanctuaries, a UNESCO site.
- [Constanța Casino](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cazinoul-din-constanta) — Monuments and historic sites · Constanța, CT · 53 lei · Top 20
  The Art Nouveau building on the Constanța seafront, opened in 1910, left to decay after 1990 and reopened in 2025 after restoration, with exhibitions on its history and on the Black Sea.
- [Endless Column](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/coloana-infinitului) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgu Jiu, GJ · Free · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20
  The 29.35 m column of brass-coated cast-iron modules raised by Constantin Brâncuși in 1938 in Târgu Jiu for the heroes of 1916: the eastern end of the “Heroes' Avenue” ensemble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- [Bâlea Lake](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-balea) — Lakes · Sibiu County · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  A glacial lake at 2,034 m in the Bâlea cirque of the Făgăraș Mountains, at the top of the Transfăgărășan; reachable by car in summer and by cable car all year round.
- [Brukenthal Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-brukenthal) — Castles and palaces · Sibiu, SB · 50 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  The Baroque palace of Governor Samuel von Brukenthal on Sibiu's Great Square has housed Romania's oldest museum since 1817: a gallery of European painting with van Eyck, Titian and Bruegel.
- [Coronation Cathedral](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-incoronarii) — Monasteries and churches · Alba Iulia, AB · Free · 45 min · Top 100
  The Orthodox cathedral inside Alba Carolina Fortress, built in 1921–1922 for the coronation of Ferdinand and Marie as king and queen of Greater Romania, with a 58 m bell tower and royal portraits in fresco.
- [Eforie Nord](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/eforie-nord) — Seaside · Eforie, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  The second resort of the Romanian coast, on the strip between the Black Sea and Lake Techirghiol: three kilometres of fine sand and a sapropelic mud cure a few hundred metres from the waves.
- [The Gate of the Kiss](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/poarta-sarutului) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgu Jiu, GJ · Free · 20 min · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  The travertine gate carved by Constantin Brâncuși in 1937–1938 at the entrance to Târgu Jiu's Central Park, part of the “Heroes' Way” ensemble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- [Băile Felix](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-felix) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Felix, BH · Free · 4½ – 5 hours · Top 100
  Romania's largest year-round spa resort, 8 km from Oradea: thermal springs of up to 49 °C, open-air baths that run all winter and a reserve of water lilies and thermal lotuses.
- [Bears' Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-ursilor) — Caves · Chișcău, BH · 40 lei · 45 min · Top 100
  Romania's most visited cave: 488 m of lit galleries beneath the village of Chișcău, full of stalactites and stalagmites, with the bones of some 140 cave bears left where they were found.
- [Cantacuzino Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-cantacuzino) — Castles and palaces · Bușteni, PH · 85 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  The Neo-Romanian summer residence of the 'Nabob' Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, with a ballroom lined with coats of arms, a terrace facing the Bucegi Mountains and the Nevermore Academy exterior from Wednesday.
- [Văcărești Nature Park (the Văcărești Delta)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-vacaresti) — National parks and reserves · București · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  Romania's first urban nature park: 183 ha of ponds, reed beds and willows inside an abandoned reservoir in southern Bucharest, home to over 180 bird species, otters and foxes, a few hundred metres from the tower blocks.
- [Câlnic Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-calnic) — Fortresses and fortifications · Câlnic, AB · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  A 13th-century count's residence, bought by the Saxon villagers in 1430 and turned into a peasant fortress: a Romanesque keep, two rings of walls and a chapel, in a valley near Sebeș.
- [Sighet Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-sighet) — Museums and memorial houses · Sighetu Marmației, MM · 25 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100
  The former Sighet prison, where the political elite of interwar Romania died, turned by Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan into the first museum of communism in Eastern Europe; over 50 cells made into exhibition rooms.
- [St Michael's Cathedral](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-romano-catolica-sfantul-mihail) — Monasteries and churches · Alba Iulia, AB · Free · 45 min · Top 100
  Romania's oldest and longest cathedral, Romanesque and Gothic, at the heart of the Alba Carolina Fortress; it holds the tomb of John Hunyadi and the first Renaissance chapel in Transylvania.
- [Bicaz Gorge](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cheile-bicazului) — Gorges and canyons · Bicaz-Chei, NT · Free · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  The best-known gorge in the Carpathians: the DN12C road runs between limestone walls over 300 m high, along the Bicaz river, between Lacu Roșu and Bicaz-Chei.
- [Cailor Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-cailor) — Waterfalls · Borșa, MM · Free · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100
  A roughly 90 m waterfall that drops in several tiers down a limestone wall in the Rodna Mountains, above the resort of Borșa; reached by chairlift and a short forest walk.
- [Lake Vidraru](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-vidraru) — Lakes · Arefu, AG · Free · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  A reservoir over 10 km long on the Argeș, held back by the 166 m Vidraru arch dam; the Transfăgărășan runs along its crest, watched over by a statue of Prometheus.
- [Cotroceni Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-cotroceni) — Castles and palaces · București · 50 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  The royal residence of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, today the seat of the Romanian Presidency and the National Cotroceni Museum: period salons, the king's library, the queen's apartments and Șerban Cantacuzino's rebuilt church.
- [Dâmbovicioara Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-dambovicioara) — Caves · Dâmbovicioara, AG · 30 min · Top 100
  A small, easy-to-visit cave on the Rucăr–Bran corridor, in Piatra Craiului National Park: a dry gallery carved by the Dâmbovicioara stream, with about 250 m laid out and lit.
- [God's Bridge](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/podul-lui-dumnezeu) — National parks and reserves · Ponoarele, MH · Free · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  Romania's largest natural bridge and the only one in the world carrying a public road: a 30 m limestone arch left standing after a cave roof collapsed, in the village of Ponoarele on the Mehedinți Plateau.
- [Károlyi Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-karolyi-carei) — Castles and palaces · Carei, SM · 40 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  Eclectic castle with towers and a moat, rebuilt in 1894–1896 by the Károlyi family in the middle of a three-century-old dendrological park; inside, period interiors, wax figures and African trophies.
- [Oradea Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-oradea) — Fortresses and fortifications · Oradea, BH · Free · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100
  A pentagonal bastion fortress built by the princes of Transylvania in the 16th–17th centuries: five bastions, a princely palace housing the Oradea City Museum, and courtyards you can walk into freely.
- [Babele](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/babele) — Mountains and trails · Moroeni, DB · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  The stone mushrooms of the Bucegi plateau, at ~2,200 m: conglomerate rocks worn by wind, frost and rain, a few minutes from the Bușteni cable car and the Sphinx.
- [Bánffy Castle in Bonțida](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-banffy-bontida) — Castles and palaces · Bonțida, CJ · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  Transylvania's largest Baroque aristocratic residence, gutted in 1944 and being brought back to life by an award-winning training site; neo-Gothic façade, lapidarium and an exhibition on Miklós Bánffy.
- [Bigăr Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-bigar) — Waterfalls · Bozovici, CS · ~12 lei · 45 min · Top 100
  The moss-covered tufa waterfall in the Miniș gorge, exactly on the 45th parallel and once famous worldwide; it partly collapsed in 2021 and is regenerating naturally, a few steps from the DN57B road.
- [Danube Gorge Road](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/drumul-clisurii-dunarii) — Scenic roads · Mehedinți County · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  The DN57 runs about 100 km along the Danube from Orșova to Moldova Nouă, through the Great and Small Cauldrons, past the rock face of Decebalus, with Serbia on the far bank.
- [Danube Gorges (Cazanele Dunării)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cazanele-dunarii) — Gorges and canyons · Dubova, MH · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  The narrowest stretch of the Danube Gorge, between Dubova and Ogradena: the river squeezes between limestone walls, with Serbia on the far bank, seen by boat or from Ciucaru Mare.
- [Mamaia Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-mamaia) — Seaside · Constanța, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  The longest developed beach on the Romanian coast: eight kilometres of sand on the spit between the Black Sea and Lake Siutghiol, widened by more than a hundred metres with dredged sand.
- [Mogoșoaia Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-mogosoaia) — Castles and palaces · Mogoșoaia, IF · 15 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  The Brâncovenesc palace built by Constantin Brâncoveanu in 1702, with its carved stone loggia, the old kitchen, a church from 1688 and a large lakeside park, 15 km from the centre of Bucharest.
- [Ocnele Mari Salt Mine](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/salina-ocnele-mari) — Salt mines · Ocnele Mari, VL · 60 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100
  A working salt mine near Râmnicu Vâlcea that you enter by bus through a tunnel: huge galleries with swirling salt walls, sports courts, an ice rink and the country's largest underground church.
- [Palace of Culture in Iași](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-culturii-iasi) — Castles and palaces · Iași, IS · 30 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  The Neo-Gothic palace with a clock tower and carillon in the centre of Iași, built in 1906–1925 as a Palace of Justice; today it houses four national museums of art, history, ethnography and science.
- [Praid Salt Mine](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/salina-praid) — Salt mines · Praid, HR · Top 100
  The salt mine of the Land of Salt, with huge leisure and treatment halls 120 m underground, once Romania's most visited. Closed indefinitely since the flood of May 2025.
- [Prislop Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-prislop) — Scenic roads · Maramureș County · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  The highest pass in the Eastern Carpathians: the DN18 climbs from Borșa to 1,416 m between the Rodna and Maramureș Mountains and drops down the Golden Bistrița valley to Cârlibaba, from Maramureș into Bukovina.
- [Râșnov Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-rasnov) — Fortresses and fortifications · Râșnov, BV · 10 lei · Top 100
  A medieval peasant fortress on a rocky hill above Râșnov, looking out to the Bucegi and Piatra Craiului mountains; the upper enclosure is under restoration, but the Fortress Garden and Báthory Tower are open.
- [Scărișoara Ice Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-ghetarul-de-la-scarisoara) — Caves · Ghețari, AB · 45 min · Top 100
  A cave in the Apuseni Mountains that holds one of the largest underground glaciers in the world: a block of ice over 10,000 years old, reached by stairs down a shaft 60 m across.
- [Seven Ladders Canyon](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/canionul-sapte-scari) — Waterfalls · Săcele, BV · 25 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  A narrow limestone gorge in the Piatra Mare Mountains near Brașov, with seven rock steps climbed on metal ladders and walkways; at the top you can ride a zip line back down.
- [Sturdza Castle of Miclăușeni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-sturdza-miclauseni) — Castles and palaces · Miclăușeni, IS · 35 lei · 50 min · Top 100
  A Neo-Gothic palace built by George and Maria Sturdza between 1880 and 1904, its façades covered in coats of arms and stone tracery, set in an old park with ponds; reopened in 2026 after a major restoration.
- [Suceava Princely Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-de-scaun-a-sucevei) — Fortresses and fortifications · Suceava, SV · 20 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  The stone stronghold of the princes of Moldavia in Suceava, built by Peter Mușat and strengthened by Stephen the Great, with a bridge over the moat, walls over 10 m high and a display of medieval arms and treasure.
- [Transrarău](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/transrarau) — Scenic roads · Suceava County · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  A paved road over the Rarău Mountains between Pojorâta and Chiril, with 28 km of hairpins beneath the Pietrele Doamnei rocks and views over the mountains of Bukovina.
- [Women's Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-muierilor) — Caves · Baia de Fier, GJ · 20 lei · 40 min · Top 100
  A four-level cave in the Galbenul Gorge at the foot of the Parâng Mountains, with 860 m of lit galleries, cave bear bones and some of the oldest modern human remains in Europe.
- [Băile Herculane](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-herculane) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Herculane, CS · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  Romania's oldest spa resort, recorded as early as AD 153, in the Cerna valley: hot sulphur springs, a Habsburg old town around the Hercules statue and free thermal tubs on the riverbank.
- [Băile Tușnad](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-tusnad) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Tușnad, HR · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  A spa resort in the Olt gorge between the Harghita and Bodoc mountains: naturally sparkling mineral springs, mofettes, a wellness centre with thermal water and trails up to Falcon Rock.
- [Bâlea Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-balea) — Waterfalls · Sibiu County · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  Romania's biggest tiered waterfall, dropping about 60 m over the lower step of the Bâlea cirque in the Făgăraș Mountains; an hour's walk up from the Bâlea Cascadă chalet on the Transfăgărășan.
- [Bánffy Palace in Cluj-Napoca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-banffy-cluj-napoca) — Castles and palaces · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 16 lei · Top 100
  The finest Baroque palace in Transylvania, built between 1774 and 1785 on Cluj's Union Square, with classical statues along its attic; it houses the Art Museum, with five centuries of Romanian and Transylvanian painting.
- [Beușnița Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-beusnita) — Waterfalls · Caraș-Severin County · ~12 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  A moss-clad tufa waterfall whose water fans out in dozens of threads over green steps, in the beech forest of the Cheile Nerei–Beușnița National Park, an hour's walk beyond Ochiul Beiului Lake.
- [Bucura Lake](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-bucura) — Lakes · Hunedoara County · 10 lei · 6½ – 7 hours · Top 100
  Romania's largest glacial lake, at 2,040 m in the heart of Retezat National Park; it can only be reached on foot, after a climb of about two hours from Poiana Pelegii.
- [Cetățile Ponorului](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatile-ponorului) — Caves · Bihor County · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  A karst complex on the Padiș Plateau: three huge sinkholes with walls over 200 m high and a portal over 70 m tall where the Cetăților stream vanishes into the mountain. Seen from a marked hiking loop, not a show cave.
- [Cuza Palace in Ruginoasa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-cuza-ruginoasa) — Castles and palaces · Ruginoasa, IS · 40 lei · 45 min · Top 100
  A Neo-Gothic palace of the Sturdza boyars, bought in 1862 by Alexandru Ioan Cuza and made the ruling family's residence; today a memorial museum with rooms recreated from Elena Cuza's inventory.
- [Dârjiu Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-darjiu) — Monasteries and churches · Dârjiu, HR · 10 lei · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  The only Székely and Unitarian church in the UNESCO fortified-church site: a Gothic church with 1419 frescoes of the legend of Saint Ladislaus, whose fortress villagers still use to store their bacon.
- [Deva Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-deva) — Fortresses and fortifications · Deva, HD · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  A 13th-century hilltop fortress on a volcanic hill above Deva, with three enclosures restored by 2024 and wide views over the Mureș valley.
- [Enisala Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-enisala) — Fortresses and fortifications · Enisala, TL · 20 lei · Top 100
  The ruins of a 14th-century fortress, probably built by the Genoese on a limestone hill above lakes Razim and Babadag, with one of the widest views in Dobruja.
- [Heroes' Cross on Caraiman Peak](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/crucea-caraiman) — Monuments and historic sites · Bușteni, PH · 10 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  A 39 m steel cross raised in the 1920s on the edge of the Caraiman escarpment, at 2,291 m, in memory of the heroes of the First World War; it can be seen from all over Bușteni.
- [Histria Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-histria) — Fortresses and fortifications · Istria, CT · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  The ruins of the oldest city on Romanian soil, a Greek colony founded by Miletus in the 7th century BC on the shore of Lake Sinoe, with the site museum alongside.
- [Ialomița Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-ialomitei) — Caves · Moroeni, DB · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  A cave cut into the wall of the Ialomița Gorge, in the heart of the Bucegi Mountains at 1,660 m, with a monastery built against its mouth and 480 m of lit galleries leading to the Bears' Hall and the Altar.
- [Iulia Hasdeu Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-iulia-hasdeu) — Castles and palaces · Câmpina, PH · 18 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  The temple-castle built by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu in memory of his daughter Iulia, to plans he claimed she gave him in spiritualist séances; today a memorial museum.
- [Jiu Gorge](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/defileul-jiului) — Scenic roads · Gorj County · Free · Top 100
  The 33 km gorge by which the Jiu crosses the Carpathians between Bumbești-Jiu and Livezeni: the DN66 follows the river through Defileul Jiului National Park, past Lainici Monastery.
- [Lake Izvorul Muntelui](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-izvorul-muntelui) — Lakes · Bicaz, NT · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  Better known as Lake Bicaz, it is the largest reservoir on Romania's inland rivers: 35 km of water on the Bistrița, below Mount Ceahlău, held back by a 127 m dam.
- [Lake Sfânta Ana](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-sfanta-ana) — Lakes · Harghita County · 46 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  Romania's only volcanic lake: an almost round sheet of water in the Ciomatu crater, ringed by forest, with a Catholic chapel on the shore and the Mohoș peat bog in the neighbouring crater.
- [Lake Snagov](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-snagov) — Lakes · Snagov, IF · Free · Top 100
  A liman lake some 16 km long, 40 km north of Bucharest, between forests, villas and jetties, with a water-lily reserve in the middle and Snagov Monastery on an island.
- [Lake Ursu](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-ursu) — Lakes · Sovata, MS · Top 100
  A heliothermal salt lake in Sovata, formed in 1875 over a salt massif: beneath a thin layer of fresh water the salt water goes above 40 °C in summer; a lido runs on the shore in season.
- [Neamț Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-neamt) — Fortresses and fortifications · Târgu Neamț, NT · 24 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  A medieval Moldavian fortress on a rocky spur above Târgu Neamț, built by the Mușatin princes and strengthened by Stephen the Great, which held out against Mehmed II's siege in 1476.
- [Ocna Sibiului](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ocna-sibiului) — Resorts and thermal baths · Ocna Sibiului, SB · 35 lei · Top 100
  A spa resort 15 km from Sibiu with salt lakes formed where old salt mines caved in: in summer you swim in water that keeps you afloat, between white banks of salt.
- [Palace of Culture in Târgu Mureș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-culturii-targu-mures) — Castles and palaces · Târgu Mureș, MS · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  A masterpiece of Transylvanian Secession architecture, completed in 1913, with a gold-ground mosaic façade, the Hall of Mirrors and its 12 stained-glass windows, a concert hall with an organ and the Mureș County Museum's art galleries.
- [Pelișor Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-pelisor) — Castles and palaces · Sinaia, PH · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  Queen Marie's Art Nouveau castle, built between 1899 and 1902 next to Peleș, with the Gold Room, the Gold Bedroom and interiors designed by the queen herself; her heart is kept here.
- [Poenari Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-poenari) — Fortresses and fortifications · Căpățânenii Ungureni, AG · 30 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  Vlad the Impaler's fortress, perched on a ridge above the Argeș Gorge on the Transfăgărășan; 1,480 steps lead up to walls that look out over the whole valley.
- [Prejmer Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-prejmer) — Monasteries and churches · Prejmer, BV · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  One of the largest Saxon fortified churches: a Gothic church on a cross-shaped plan, ringed by an oval wall with over 270 refuge rooms reached by timber galleries.
- [Primăverii Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-primaverii) — Castles and palaces · București · 85 lei · 45 min · Top 100
  The Bucharest home of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu from 1965 to 1989, also known as the Ceaușescu Mansion or Spring Palace, with its lavish interiors, mosaic pool and private cinema, seen on guided tours only.
- [Red Lake](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-rosu) — Lakes · Lacu Roșu, HR · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100
  A natural dam lake formed in 1837, when a mountainside blocked the Bicaz valley; the trunks of the drowned forest still rise from the water, at the upper end of the Bicaz Gorge.
- [Rock Sculpture of Decebalus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/chipul-lui-decebal) — Monuments and historic sites · Eșelnița, MH · Free · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  The face of the Dacian king Decebalus, carved between 1994 and 2004 into a 55 m rock at the mouth of the Mraconia, on the Romanian bank of the Danube: the tallest rock sculpture in Europe.
- [Royal Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-regal) — Castles and palaces · București · 32 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  The former residence of Romania's kings on Revolution Square, now the National Museum of Art of Romania: the Throne Hall, the Voivodes' Staircase and the country's largest collection of Romanian and European art.
- [Rupea Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-rupea) — Fortresses and fortifications · Rupea, BV · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100
  A Saxon peasant fortress climbing in tiers up a basalt hill above the town of Rupea, first recorded in 1324 and restored in 2010–2013, with wide views over the Transylvanian hills.
- [Saschiz Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-saschiz) — Monasteries and churches · Saschiz, MS · 10 lei · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  A Late Gothic Saxon church beside the DN13, with a bell tower modelled on Sighișoara's Clock Tower; on the hill above the village stand the walls of a 14th-century peasant fortress.
- [Săvârșin Royal Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-regal-savarsin) — Castles and palaces · Săvârșin, AR · Top 100
  The Royal Family's Neoclassical residence in the Mureș valley, with a historic park open for guided tours and the Royal Village, where King Michael's garage is now a car museum; open at weekends, May–October.
- [Slănic-Moldova](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/slanic-moldova) — Resorts and thermal baths · Slănic-Moldova, BC · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  A spa resort more than two centuries old in a narrow valley of the Nemira Mountains: numbered mineral springs you drink from for free, a park with shaded paths and the 1894 Art Nouveau Casino.
- [The Bucegi Sphinx](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sfinxul-din-bucegi) — Mountains and trails · Moroeni, DB · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  An 8 m conglomerate rock shaped by wind, frost and rain that, from certain angles, looks like a human head; it stands on the Bucegi plateau at 2,216 m, next to Babele.
- [The Table of Silence](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/masa-tacerii) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgu Jiu, GJ · Free · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  Constantin Brâncuși's round stone table with 12 hourglass seats, in the park on the banks of the Jiu: the western end of the Heroes' Way ensemble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- [Therme București](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/therme-bucuresti) — Resorts and thermal baths · Balotești, IF · 71 lei · 4 – 4½ hours · Top 100
  A thermal and wellness complex on the edge of Bucharest, on the DN1: geothermal pools under a glass dome full of palm trees, water slides, saunas and a sandy beach open in summer.
- [Urlătoarea Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-urlatoarea) — Waterfalls · Bușteni, PH · 10 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100
  A roughly 15 m waterfall on the eastern slopes of the Bucegi Mountains, an hour's easy forest walk from Bușteni; the most visited waterfall in the massif and a classic outing on the Prahova Valley.
- [Valea Viilor Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-valea-viilor) — Monasteries and churches · Valea Viilor, SB · 8 lei · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  The Saxon church in a vineyard valley near Mediaș, with its choir turned into a defence tower, an almost intact oval wall and a wood-and-iron portcullis that has survived for centuries.
- [Vălul Miresei Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-valul-miresei) — Waterfalls · Răchițele, CJ · Free · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100
  A roughly 30 m, two-tiered waterfall at the foot of the Vlădeasa massif, on the Stanciului valley near Răchițele; the water fans out over the rock like a veil, and in winter the frozen wall is an ice-climbing spot.
- [Vama Veche](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vama-veche) — Seaside · Vama Veche, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  The last village on the Romanian coast, a kilometre from the Bulgarian border: two kilometres of fine sand, terraces open until dawn and the waters of a marine reserve.
- [Vatra Dornei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vatra-dornei) — Resorts and thermal baths · Vatra Dornei, SV · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  A spa resort more than two centuries old in the Dorna Depression: carbonated springs, peat mud, a park full of squirrels and the Spa Casino, restored and reopened as a museum.
- [Viscri Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-viscri) — Monasteries and churches · Viscri, BV · 20 lei · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100
  A small white church on the hill above the village, grown from a 12th-century Romanesque chapel and ringed by walls, towers and grain galleries, in a Saxon village that has survived almost intact.
- [Neajlov Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-neajlovului) — National parks and reserves · Comana, GR · 5 lei · 2½ – 3 hours
  The roughly 1,100 ha Neajlov marsh in Comana Natural Park, with channels, reed beds and waterbirds, less than an hour from Bucharest; seen by small boat, rowing boat or kayak.
- [Mălâncrav Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-malancrav) — Monasteries and churches · Mălâncrav, SB
  A 14th-century Gothic church built by the noble Apafi family, with the largest ensemble of Gothic frescoes in Transylvania and a polyptych altarpiece that has stood in place for more than five centuries.
- [Sucevița Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-sucevita) — Monasteries and churches · Sucevița, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  The Movilă family's fortified monastery, built in the 1580s among the hills of Bukovina, with a church painted almost entirely inside and out and the famous "Ladder of Virtues"; a UNESCO site.
- [Balta Mică a Brăilei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/balta-mica-a-brailei) — Deltas · Brăila, BR · 80 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The last stretch of free-flooding Danube floodplain between Giurgeni and Brăila: seven river islands, 52 lakes and over 200 bird species, reached only by boat.
- [Sfântu Gheorghe Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-sfantu-gheorghe) — Seaside · Sfântu Gheorghe, TL · 5 lei · 4½ – 5 hours
  The wild beach where the Sfântu Gheorghe branch meets the Black Sea: 30 km of fine sand, 2 km from a Delta village that can only be reached by water.
- [Sulina Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-sulina) — Seaside · Sulina, TL · 5 lei · 3½ – 4 hours
  Romania's easternmost beach, where the Sulina branch meets the Black Sea: very fine alluvial sand, an unusually wide strip and water that stays shallow for tens of metres.
- [Vadu Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-vadu) — Seaside · Vadu, CT · 5 lei · 3½ – 4 hours
  A wild beach of shell-strewn sand at the village of Vadu, inside the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve: low dunes, not a single building and an earth track down to the sea.
- [2 Mai – Vama Veche Marine Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rezervatia-marina-2-mai-vama-veche) — National parks and reserves · 2 Mai, CT · Free
  The only marine reserve on the Romanian coast: the waters between 2 Mai and the Bulgarian border, with stone reefs, brown seaweed beds and mussel banks to see with a mask or on a dive.
- [Bethlen Castle in Criș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-bethlen-cris) — Castles and palaces · Criș, MS · ½ – 1 hours
  The most complete Renaissance residence left in Transylvania, seat of the Bethlen family: a tower with soldier reliefs, an arcaded loggia and bastioned walls, now under restoration.
- [Cisnădioara Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-cisnadioara) — Monasteries and churches · Cisnădioara, SB · 10 lei
  A Romanesque basilica from the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, left almost unaltered, on the rocky top of St Michael's Hill, ringed by a defensive wall and looking out to the Făgăraș Mountains.
- [Eforie Sud](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/eforie-sud) — Seaside · Eforie, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  The resort where Romanian spa tourism began, on the highest cliff of the coast: interwar villas, an Art Deco casino and a beach recently widened to over a hundred metres.
- [Gutâi Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-gutai) — Scenic roads · Maramureș County · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  The pass where the DN18 climbs in hairpins from Baia Sprie to 987 m between the Igniș and Gutâi Mountains, then drops towards Mara and the Maramureș Land, an hour from Baia Mare.
- [Lotru Valley Road](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/valea-lotrului) — Scenic roads · Vâlcea County · Free
  The DN7A climbs 108 km from Brezoi up the Lotru valley, through Voineasa and past Lake Vidra to Obârșia Lotrului, then crosses the Groapa Seacă Pass and drops through the Jieț Gorge to Petroșani.
- [Ocna Mureș Salt Baths](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-sarate-ocna-mures) — Resorts and thermal baths · Ocna Mureș, AB · 80 lei · 3½ – 4 hours
  A modern spa complex in Ocna Mureș, opened in 2023, with heated salt-water and fresh-water pools, saunas and treatments. It is above ground only: the old salt mine cannot be visited.
- [Olt Defile](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/defileul-oltului) — Scenic roads · Vâlcea County · Free · 1½ – 2 hours
  The 47 km gorge by which the Olt crosses the Carpathians: on the DN7, between Boița and Călimănești, the road follows the river past Cozia Monastery. A busy through route, not a leisure drive.
- [The Black Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-neagra) — Monasteries and churches · Brașov, BV · 30 lei · 45 min
  Romania's largest Gothic church, built by the Saxons of Brașov between 1383 and 1477; inside are the 1839 Buchholz organ and a rare collection of Anatolian carpets.
- [Băile Cojocna](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-cojocna) — Resorts and thermal baths · Cojocna, CJ · 50 lei
  A lido with two salt lakes formed where old salt mines caved in, 24 km from Cluj-Napoca, plus an indoor pool of warm salt water that stays open all year.
- [Berca Mud Volcanoes](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vulcanii-noroiosi-berca) — National parks and reserves · Berca, BZ · 4 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  Two plateaus of cold-mud cones and craters, Pâclele Mari and Pâclele Mici, in a nature reserve in the Buzău Subcarpathians, with a lunar-landscape feel.
- [Bethlen-Haller Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-bethlen-haller) — Castles and palaces · Cetatea de Baltă, AB · 39 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  A Renaissance castle with four round towers, built by the Bethlen family on a hill above the Târnava Mică; today it is the emblem of Jidvei wines and is visited on hourly guided tours.
- [Black Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/turnul-negru-brasov) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · 30 min
  A square 15th-century watchtower perched on a rock outside Brașov's western walls, with a glass pyramid roof and a platform looking out over the old town and the Black Church.
- [Cacica Salt Mine](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/salina-cacica) — Salt mines · Cacica, SV · 38 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  A salt mine opened by the Austrians in 1791 with miners brought from Galicia: 192 fir steps lead down to a chapel carved in salt, a salt lake and a ballroom 42 m below ground.
- [Constanța City Beaches](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plajele-constanta) — Seaside · Constanța, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  The city's own beaches, from the fish market down to the cliff below the old town: three and a half kilometres of replenished sand, with Modern, Trei Papuci and Tataia one after another.
- [Corbu Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-corbu) — Seaside · Corbu, CT · 5 lei · 3½ – 4 hours
  The last wild beach at the southern edge of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve: shell-strewn sand, dunes and a low earth cliff, with no hotels, sunbeds or lifeguards.
- [Costești-Cetățuie Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-dacica-costesti-cetatuie) — Fortresses and fortifications · Costești, HD · 10 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  A Dacian fortress on Cetățuia hill, at the gateway to the Orăștie Mountains: earth ramparts, a stone wall built in the Hellenistic manner, tower houses and temples, a UNESCO site.
- [Costinești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/costinesti) — Seaside · Costinești, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  The youth resort of the Romanian coast, 31 kilometres south of Constanța: an east-facing beach, the white obelisk on the sand and the rusting wreck of the cargo ship Evangelia.
- [Council Square (Piața Sfatului)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/piata-sfatului-brasov) — Monuments and historic sites · Brașov, BV · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  The main square of old Brașov, lined with merchants' houses and dominated by the Council House, the old town hall with its watchtower, now the County History Museum, with Tâmpa as a backdrop.
- [Durgău Salt Lakes](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/strandul-durgau) — Resorts and thermal baths · Turda, CJ · 40 lei
  A summer lido on two salt lakes formed in collapsed old salt pits, 100 m from the Durgău entrance of the Turda Salt Mine. The very salty water keeps you afloat; the mine is visited separately.
- [Duruitoarea Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-duruitoarea) — Waterfalls · Durău, NT · 10 lei · 3½ – 4 hours
  A 25 m, two-tier waterfall on the Rupturi stream, in the forests below Toaca peak in Ceahlău National Park; reached on foot from the Durău resort in about two hours.
- [Humor Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-humor) — Monasteries and churches · Mănăstirea Humorului, SV · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  The church built in 1530 by chancellor Toader Bubuiog under Petru Rareș, painted outside in shades of red, with an open porch and Vasile Lupu's tower; a UNESCO site.
- [Lake Colibița](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-colibita) — Lakes · Colibița, BN · Free · 1½ – 2 hours
  A reservoir on the Bistrița Ardeleană between the Bârgău and Călimani mountains, nicknamed “the sea in the mountains”, with the Colibița resort spread along its shores.
- [Lolaia Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-lolaia) — Waterfalls · Nucșoara, HD · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  A waterfall of about 15 m, split by a rock into two streams, in the Nucșoara valley in the north of Retezat National Park; a 15–20 minute walk from Cârnic.
- [Maria Radna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-maria-radna) — Monasteries and churches · Lipova, AR · ½ – 1 hours
  The largest Baroque pilgrimage church in western Romania, its 67-metre towers rising above the Mureș, with a miracle-working icon and corridors covered in votive paintings.
- [Năvodari – Mamaia Nord Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-navodari) — Seaside · Năvodari, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  Six kilometres of wide sand north of Mamaia, split between the beach clubs of Mamaia Nord and the roomy, quieter town beach of Năvodari, with shallow water for hundreds of metres.
- [Neptun–Olimp](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neptun-olimp) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  Two resorts built side by side north of Mangalia, between the sea and the Comorova forest: a beach widened to a hundred metres, two lakes right behind the sand and 1970s architecture.
- [Ocna Dej Salt Mine](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/salina-ocna-dej) — Salt mines · Dej, CJ
  A working salt mine near Dej, where salt has been dug since Roman times, with an Orthodox church carved into the salt about 80 m down. Not currently open to visitors.
- [People's Salvation Cathedral](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-mantuirii-neamului) — Monasteries and churches · București · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  Romania's National Cathedral, on Arsenal Hill next to the Palace of the Parliament: a 127 m Neo-Byzantine church with its altar consecrated in 2018 and its painting consecrated in 2025, open to visitors only in announced periods.
- [Râpa Roșie](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rapa-rosie) — National parks and reserves · Sebeș, AB · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  An 800 m wall of red clay and sandstone on the edge of Sebeș, carved by rain into columns, towers and earth pyramids, a badlands landscape rare in Romania.
- [Strada Sforii (Rope Street)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/strada-sforii) — Monuments and historic sites · Brașov, BV · Free · 10 min
  A passage 1.1–1.35 m wide in Brașov's old town, recorded in the 17th century and counted among the narrowest streets in Europe; closed for repairs since November 2025.
- [Târgu Ocna Salt Mine](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/salina-targu-ocna) — Salt mines · Târgu Ocna, BC · 60 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  One of Moldavia's oldest salt mines, still being worked: a bus takes you through a tunnel over 3 km long to 240 m below ground, to a salt church, a lake with a waterfall and sports courts.
- [Telega Salt Baths](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-telega) — Resorts and thermal baths · Telega, PH
  Salt lakes formed over the old salt mines of Telega, near Câmpina: in summer you swim in water holding almost 277 g of salts per litre. The mine galleries cannot be visited.
- [Transbucegi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/transbucegi) — Scenic roads · Dâmbovița County · 10 lei · 2½ – 3 hours
  The DJ713 climbs from the DN71 near Sinaia over 16 km of tarmac to 1,925 m at Piatra Arsă: the only road that takes you by car onto the Bucegi plateau.
- [Transsemenic](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/transsemenic) — Scenic roads · Caraș-Severin County · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  County road DJ582 crosses the Semenic Mountains for 58 km, from Reșița through Văliug and the Prislop Pass to Slatina-Timiș, past mountain lakes, pastures and the villages of Gărâna and Brebu Nou.
- [White Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/turnul-alb-brasov) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · Free · 45 min
  A 15th-century horseshoe-shaped defence tower perched on a rock above the Graft, with one of the best views over Brașov's old town.
- [“Alexandru Buia” Botanical Garden, Craiova](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-botanica-craiova) — Parks and gardens · Craiova, DJ · 1 – 1½ hours
  A botanical garden of almost 13 hectares in the middle of Craiova, with lakes, a collection of more than 3,000 taxa, walking paths and a new tropical greenhouse under construction.
- [“Anastasie Fătu” Botanical Garden, Iași](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-botanica-iasi) — Parks and gardens · Iași, IS · 2 – 2½ hours
  The first botanical garden in Romania, run by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University: almost 90 hectares on Copou Hill, with a rose garden, a greenhouse complex, a lake and annual chrysanthemum shows.
- [“Dimitrie Brândză” Botanical Garden, Bucharest](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-botanica-bucuresti) — Parks and gardens · București · 15 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The University of Bucharest's botanical garden, in Cotroceni: more than 18 hectares with a rose garden, an Italian garden, a lake with an island, greenhouses with palms and orchids, and a botanical museum.
- [“Pavel Covaci” University Botanical Garden, Macea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-botanica-macea) — Parks and gardens · Macea, AR · 6 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  A 21.5-hectare dendrological park around the Csernovics Castle, with one of the richest collections of trees and shrubs in the country, an alpine garden, stone sculptures and small museums in the old hunting lodge.
- [2 Mai](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/2-mai) — Seaside · 2 Mai, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A Lipovan fishing village between Mangalia and Vama Veche, with a beach set in a small bay, a fish station at its southern end and the waters of the 2 Mai – Vama Veche marine reserve.
- [Agigea Marine Dunes Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dunele-marine-agigea) — National parks and reserves · Agigea, CT · Free
  The only marine dunes left on the Romanian coast, protected since 1939 in the grounds of the Agigea Marine Biological Station: rare sand plants, tortoises and a free themed trail.
- [Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-botanica-cluj-napoca) — Parks and gardens · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 21 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The botanical garden of Babeș-Bolyai University, on almost 14 hectares in the south of Cluj: a Japanese garden with a tea house on a lake, greenhouses more than 60 years old, a water tower and a botanical museum.
- [Alexandru Ioan Cuza Park (IOR Park)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-alexandru-ioan-cuza) — Parks and gardens · București · Free · 1½ – 2 hours
  One of Bucharest's largest parks, about 85 hectares, laid out in the 1960s around Lake Titan, with five islands and a wooden church on the shore.
- [Alma Vii Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-alma-vii) — Monasteries and churches · Alma Vii, SB
  A small Saxon stronghold on the hill of a village at the end of the road, with four restored towers housing small museums of village life; winner of a Europa Nostra award in 2024.
- [Amara Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/amara) — Resorts and thermal baths · Amara, IL · 3½ – 4 hours
  A spa resort on the Bărăgan plain, on the shore of Lake Amara, sought out for more than a century for its sapropelic mud, used to treat rheumatism. It has treatment centres in its hotels, lakeside beaches and an arboretum.
- [Anghel Saligny Bridge at Fetești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/podul-saligny-fetesti) — Monuments and historic sites · Fetești, IL · Free · 20 min
  The railway bridge over the Borcea branch, part of the complex Anghel Saligny built in 1890–1895 between Fetești and Cernavodă; best seen from a distance, next to the new A2 bridge.
- [Apold Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-apold) — Monasteries and churches · Apold, MS · 45 min
  A Saxon church on a hill in Apold, surrounded by walls and defensive towers that survive almost complete, with Gothic frescoes on the triumphal arch and contemporary art exhibition spaces.
- [Arbore Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-arbore) — Monasteries and churches · Arbore, SV · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage
  The church built in 1502 by Hetman Luca Arbore, with no tower and exterior frescoes from 1541 dominated by green; a UNESCO site, today the church of Arbore Monastery.
- [Arch of Triumph](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arcul-de-triumf) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 15 lei · 45 min
  The 27 m interwar monument at the end of Șoseaua Kiseleff, built in memory of the Great Union, with 292 steps up to a terrace overlooking northern Bucharest.
- [Archiepiscopal Cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Galați](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-arhiepiscopala-galati) — Monasteries and churches · Galați, GL · Free · 30 min
  The cathedral of the Archdiocese of Lower Danube, built between 1906 and 1917 to plans by Petre Antonescu: the largest religious building in Galați, Neo-Byzantine, with a main tower 42.5 m high.
- [Arsenal Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arsenal-park) — Parks and gardens · Orăștie, HD · 40 lei · 3½ – 4 hours
  A military-themed park at Orăștie, on 88 hectares of forest: an open-air museum of military hardware, an adventure park, a 607 m zip line and a summer water park.
- [Ascension Cathedral (Roman Catholic Cathedral)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-romano-catolica-satu-mare) — Monasteries and churches · Satu Mare, SM · Free · 30 min
  The Cathedral of the Ascension, rebuilt in neoclassical style between 1830 and 1837: a portico of six Corinthian columns and two towers dominate Piața Libertății, and inside lies the tomb of a martyr bishop.
- [Axente Sever Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-axente-sever) — Monasteries and churches · Axente Sever, SB · 45 min
  A 14th-century Gothic hall church with its bell tower raised above the choir, surrounded by an oval wall whose former food stores now house a museum and guest rooms.
- [Băile Govora](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-govora) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Govora, VL · Free · 2 – 2½ hours
  A spa resort in the Vâlcea foothills, with iodine, bromine and sulphur waters, a spa park laid out in 1912 and the Palace Hotel designed by Ernest Doneaud.
- [Băile Olănești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-olanesti) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Olănești, VL · Free
  A spa resort in a wooded valley below the Vâlcea mountains, with more than 30 numbered mineral springs, a springs walk along the river and Horea's wooden church, brought here from the Apuseni Mountains.
- [Băile Sărate Turda Lido](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/strandul-baile-sarate-turda) — Resorts and thermal baths · Turda, CJ
  Turda's historic lido, on the Roman Lake, a salt lake formed in old salt workings in the Băile Sărate district. The town's spa was born here around 1840.
- [Banat Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-satului-banatean) — Museums and memorial houses · Timișoara, TM · 20 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  An open-air ethnographic museum on ~17 hectares at the edge of the Green Forest: houses and outbuildings from Banat villages, a wooden church, a school and an “Alley of Ethnicities”, all gathered into one village.
- [Bănița Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-dacica-banita) — Fortresses and fortifications · Bănița, HD · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  The ruins of a Dacian fortress on the rocky summit of Piatra Cetății, above the DN66, which guarded the southern approach to Sarmizegetusa Regia; a UNESCO site, reached only on foot by a steep climb.
- [Baroque Palace of Oradea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-baroc-oradea) — Castles and palaces · Oradea, BH · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The Roman Catholic bishops' residence, built in 1762–1777 by Franz Anton Hillebrandt, is Romania's largest Baroque palace; today it hosts church art exhibitions, and the garden is open daily.
- [Bârsana Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-barsana) — Monasteries and churches · Bârsana, MM · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage
  Bârsana's old wooden church, dating from 1711, stands on Jbâr Hill in an orchard full of crosses; inside is Toader Hodor's Baroque painting of 1806. A UNESCO site.
- [Black Eagle Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-vulturul-negru) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · Free · 30 min
  A Secession building from 1907–1908 on Piața Unirii in Oradea, with a glass-roofed passage and a stained-glass window of a black eagle, from which it takes its name.
- [Bohodei Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-bohodei) — Waterfalls · Pietroasa, BH · Free · 6 – 6½ hours
  A waterfall of about 80 m on the Bohodei stream, below the peak of the same name, regarded as the tallest in the Apuseni Mountains; reached on a demanding loop from Pietroasa with chain-equipped rock sections.
- [Bolii Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-bolii) — Caves · Bănița, HD · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  A cave crossed by a mountain stream north of Petroșani, with a 20 m-wide portal and a gallery of about 466 m walked end to end on footbridges, beneath the Dacian fortress of Bănița.
- [Borsec](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/borsec) — Resorts and thermal baths · Borsec, HR · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A mountain spa resort at 900 m in northern Harghita, with carbonated mineral springs you can drink from for free, old wooden villas, travertine caves and a new spa centre.
- [Botanical Park (Parcul Botanic)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-botanic-timisoara) — Parks and gardens · Timișoara, TM · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  The dendrological park beside Timișoara's former fortress, laid out in 1986–1990 on a 1966 plan: over 8 hectares with rare trees, a Japanese garden, a rose collection and a stretch of the fortress wall.
- [Brambura Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brambura-park) — Parks and gardens · Avrig, SB · 15 lei · 2½ – 3 hours
  A family theme park in the Avrig Valley, home to the Upside-Down House, a 200 sq m tilted house built upside down, plus a mini zoo, tubing and playgrounds.
- [Brâncoveanu Monastery of Sâmbăta de Sus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-brancoveanu-sambata-de-sus) — Monasteries and churches · Sâmbăta de Sus, BV · 1 – 1½ hours
  Orthodox monastery founded by Constantin Brâncoveanu below the Făgăraș Mountains: the church rebuilt in 1926–1946 on its old foundations, an icon museum and a new Brâncovenesc-style precinct.
- [Brâncoveanu Palace in Potlogi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-brancovenesc-potlogi) — Castles and palaces · Potlogi, DB · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The princely court built by Constantin Brâncoveanu in 1698 for his eldest son, with a loggia-fronted palace, walled courtyards and restored gardens, ~50 km from Bucharest.
- [Brâncoveni Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-brancoveni) — Monasteries and churches · Brâncoveni, OT · ½ – 1 hours
  A convent in Olt, in the village that Matei Basarab and Constantin Brâncoveanu came from: defensive wall and bell tower of 1634–1640, a Brâncovenesc great church of 1699, and a museum with a lapidary.
- [Brașov Fortress (Cetățuia)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatuia-brasovului) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  A bastioned fortress on Citadel Hill, north of the old town, built to stop enemies firing on Brașov from the heights; the interior is closed for works, but the walls and the view can be enjoyed from the paths on the hill.
- [Brașov Zoo](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-zoologica-brasov) — Zoos and aquariums · Brașov, BV · 35 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The zoo in the Noua district, at the foot of the forest, enlarged to 10 hectares after the 2012–2014 modernisation, with tigers, lions, bears, sea lions, penguins and a planetarium on site.
- [Bratocea Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-bratocea) — Scenic roads · Brașov County · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  The pass where the DN1A crosses from the Teleajen valley into the Bârsa region at 1,263 m, below the Ciucaș Mountains: a mountain road between Cheia and Săcele and the trailhead for Ciucaș Peak.
- [Brukenthal Summer Palace in Avrig](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-brukenthal-avrig) — Castles and palaces · Avrig, SB · 1 – 1½ hours
  The summer residence of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, governor of Transylvania, built in the Baroque style on a terrace above the Olt, with its Baroque garden, orangery and a small exhibition in the palace rooms.
- [Bucharest Zoo](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-zoologica-bucuresti) — Zoos and aquariums · București · 20 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The capital's zoological garden, open since 1959 in Băneasa Forest, with tigers, lions, bears, wolves, zebras, monkeys and more than 150 species on almost 6 hectares.
- [Budești Josani Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-budesti-josani) — Monasteries and churches · Budești, MM · UNESCO World Heritage
  The 1643 Church of Saint Nicholas in the Cosău Valley, with a slender tower framed by four small turrets, paintings by Alexandru Ponehalschi and the chain mail attributed to the outlaw Pintea the Brave. A UNESCO site.
- [Bunești Fortified Church (Bodendorf)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-bunesti) — Monasteries and churches · Bunești, BV · 30 min
  The Evangelical church of Bunești (Bodendorf), a late 13th-century basilica ringed by a wall with towers and the villagers' grain chambers, with a narrow, tall interior full of painted galleries.
- [Călimănești-Căciulata](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/calimanesti-caciulata) — Resorts and thermal baths · Călimănești, VL · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A spa resort in the Olt Valley, where the river leaves the Cozia Mountains: sulphur springs known since the 19th century, the Central Pavilion of 1886 and thermal pools open all year round.
- [Callatis Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-callatis) — Fortresses and fortifications · Mangalia, CT · 10 lei
  The ruins of the Greek city from which Mangalia grew: the circuit wall with its towers and the Syrian-type basilica on the clifftop promenade, steps from the beach, plus the town's archaeology museum.
- [Căluiu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-caluiu) — Monasteries and churches · Călui, OT · 45 min
  A sixteenth-century foundation of the Buzești boyars, tucked into a valley in Olt County: a church with the votive painting of Michael the Brave, the Buzești tombs and a brick enclosure wall.
- [Căpâlna Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-dacica-capalna) — Fortresses and fortifications · Căpâlna, AB · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  The ruins of a Dacian fortress on a wooded hill above the Sebeș valley: limestone walls in the murus dacicus technique and the base of a tower house, the only Dacian UNESCO site in Alba County.
- [Capra Lake](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-capra) — Lakes · Argeș County · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  A glacial lake at 2,230 m on the southern side of the Făgăraș Mountains, just below the ridge; about an hour's walk from Bâlea Lake, over the Capra saddle.
- [Capra Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-capra) — Waterfalls · Argeș County · Free · 20 min
  A waterfall of about 40 m on the Capra stream, right beside the Transfăgărășan on the southern side of the Făgăraș Mountains, at 1,690 m; you see it from the bridge, without any hiking.
- [Caraiman Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-caraiman) — Waterfalls · Bușteni, PH · 10 lei · 2½ – 3 hours
  A waterfall on the rock step at the head of the Jepi valley, below the Caraiman chalet in the Bucegi; it only flows in full in late spring and early summer, hence its nickname of the ‘ghost waterfall’.
- [Carol I Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-carol-i) — Parks and gardens · București · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  A historic park laid out in 1900–1906 on Filaret Hill for the General Romanian Exhibition, with a lake, a monumental central avenue, the Zodiac Fountain and the Heroes of the Nation Memorial on the upper plateau.
- [Cașin Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-casin) — Monasteries and churches · Mănăstirea Cașin, BC · 45 min
  A foundation of Prince Gheorghe Ștefan from 1655–1657: a dressed-stone church inside a walled enclosure with towers, near Onești; today a parish church.
- [Cașoca Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-casoca) — Waterfalls · Siriu, BZ · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  A waterfall of about 8 m dropping over a sandstone ledge in a wooded gorge of the Cașoca Valley, near Lake Siriu; also known as the Pruncea Waterfall, it can be reached by car almost to its foot.
- [Cathedral of Saint Alexander in Alexandria](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-sfantul-alexandru-alexandria) — Monasteries and churches · Alexandria, TR · Free · 30 min
  The cathedral of the Diocese of Alexandria and Teleorman, built between 1869 and 1898 in the town centre: a three-towered brick church painted in 1898 by Ștefan Luchian and Constantin Artachino, and a listed historic monument.
- [Cathedral of Saint Haralambie in Turnu Măgurele](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-sfantul-haralambie-turnu-magurele) — Monasteries and churches · Turnu Măgurele, TR · Free · 20 min
  The large church in the town centre, built between 1900 and 1905 at King Carol I's suggestion to plans by André Lecomte du Noüy, with three towers and Neo-Byzantine painting; a class A historic monument.
- [Catherine's Gate](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/poarta-ecaterinei) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · Free · 20 min
  The only surviving medieval gate of Brașov's walled town, a white tower of 1559 with four corner turrets and the town's coat of arms; next to it, the neoclassical Șchei Gate of 1827–1828.
- [Central Park “Simion Bărnuțiu”](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-central-cluj-napoca) — Parks and gardens · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  Cluj's historic park, laid out from 1838 on the bank of the Someșul Mic, with Lake Chios, the old Casino, the music pavilion and a central avenue between old trees; locals call it the Big Park.
- [Cerna Valley Road](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/drumul-vaii-cernei) — Scenic roads · Caraș-Severin County · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  The DN67D links Baia de Aramă to Băile Herculane in about 65 km: it climbs to the Arșasca saddle at ~900 m and drops down the Cerna Valley, between limestone walls, through Domogled–Valea Cernei National Park.
- [Cheilor Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-cheilor) — Waterfalls · Sângeorz-Băi, BN · Free
  A 20–30 m waterfall in the Cormaia Valley, at the foot of the Rodna Mountains near Sângeorz-Băi; a built path of about 1 km, with steps, footbridges and chains, climbs alongside its tiers.
- [Church of St Demetrius and St Nestor, Mânăstirea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-sf-dumitru-si-sf-nestor-manastirea) — Monasteries and churches · Mânăstirea, CL · Free · 30 min
  A 1648 foundation of Matei Basarab and Lady Elina, a historic monument of national importance, in the village named after an old monastery: a brick church with an octagonal tower and interior painting.
- [Cincșor Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-cincsor) — Monasteries and churches · Cincșor, BV · 45 min
  A Gothic Saxon church from 1421, enclosed by walls, four defensive towers and a second ring of fortifications, in the middle of a village by the Olt with the Făgăraș Mountains behind it.
- [Cișmigiu Gardens](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-cismigiu) — Parks and gardens · București · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  Bucharest's oldest public park, laid out from 1847 in the landscape style around a lake, with shady avenues, the Writers' Rotunda and romantic stone corners, right in the city centre.
- [Cisnădie Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-cisnadie) — Monasteries and churches · Cisnădie, SB · 45 min
  A 13th-century Romanesque basilica turned Saxon fortress, 10 km from Sibiu: a bell tower with a clock dating from 1425, double walls and a small museum.
- [Ciumârna Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-ciumarna) — Scenic roads · Suceava County · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  The ~1,100 m pass where the DN17A crosses the Obcina Mare ridge between Vatra Moldoviței and Sucevița, with hairpins through spruce forest, wide views over the Bukovina hills and the road builders' “Palm” monument.
- [Clay Castle of Fairy Valley (Castelul de Lut Valea Zânelor)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-de-lut-valea-zanelor) — Castles and palaces · Porumbacu de Sus, SB · 1 – 1½ hours
  A fairy-tale building of clay, sand, straw, wood and river stone, raised between 2014 and 2017 at the foot of the Făgăraș Mountains. Today it is a restaurant and guesthouse: you enter with a reservation, not a sightseeing ticket.
- [Clocota Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-clocota) — Waterfalls · Geoagiu-Băi, HD · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  A thermal waterfall that never freezes, spilling over a moss-covered travertine wall, a quarter of an hour's walk from the centre of the Geoagiu-Băi spa resort.
- [Coiba Mare Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-coiba-mare) — Caves · Casa de Piatră, AB · Free
  An undeveloped cave in the Bihor Mountains near Casa de Piatră: a huge portal, tens of metres high, through which the Gârdișoara stream vanishes underground.
- [Comana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-comana) — Monasteries and churches · Comana, GR · 45 min
  A fortified lowland monastery founded by Vlad the Impaler in 1461 and rebuilt by Radu Șerban in 1588, with thick walls, a Brâncoveanu-style loggia and the church of St Nicholas, on the edge of the Comana marsh.
- [Comarnic Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-comarnic) — Caves · Iabalcea, CS · 35 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  A wild, unlit cave in the Anina Mountains with more than 6 km of passages on three levels, 1,750 m of which you explore with a helmet and head torch, led by the national park's rangers.
- [Constanța Dolphinarium](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delfinariul-constanta) — Zoos and aquariums · Constanța, CT · 74,37 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  Romania's first dolphinarium, opened in 1972 on Mamaia Boulevard, with dolphin shows in a covered arena and, on the same ticket, a small reserve with Dobrujan birds and animals.
- [Constanța Peninsula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/peninsula-constanta) — Monuments and historic sites · Constanța, CT · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  Constanța's old town, on the site of ancient Tomis: Ovid Square, the Roman mosaic, the mosque and its minaret, the cathedral, the Genoese Lighthouse and the casino seafront, all a few steps apart.
- [Copou Park (Grădina Copou)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-copou) — Parks and gardens · Iași, IS · Free · 1 – 1¼ hours
  The oldest public park in Iași, laid out from 1834 on Copou hill, with the Lions' Obelisk, Eminescu's Linden Tree, the busts of the Junimea writers and the "Mihai Eminescu" Museum.
- [Copșa Mare Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-copsa-mare) — Monasteries and churches · Copșa Mare, SB · 30 min
  A Saxon church fortified around 1510, with a tall choir under a star vault, a bell tower with a timber gallery and a winegrowers' village around it, in the Wine Country.
- [Costești-Blidaru Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-dacica-costesti-blidaru) — Fortresses and fortifications · Costești, HD · 5 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  One of the strongest Dacian fortresses in the Orăștie Mountains: murus dacicus walls, six towers and a dog-leg entrance, on a wooded hill above Costești, a UNESCO site.
- [Covasna](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/covasna) — Resorts and thermal baths · Covasna, CV · Free
  The spa resort in the town of Covasna, Romania's "resort of the heart": carbon dioxide mofettes, sparkling mineral springs on every corner and the Devil's Pond, a mud volcano in the central park.
- [Craiova Art Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-de-arta-craiova) — Museums and memorial houses · Craiova, DJ · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The museum in the Jean Mihail Palace, built in 1898–1907 to plans by Paul Gottereau, holds six works by Brâncuși, including “The Kiss”, as well as Romanian and European art.
- [Craiova Zoo](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-zoologica-craiova) — Zoos and aquariums · Craiova, DJ · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  One of the oldest zoos in the country, opened in 1906 in Nicolae Romanescu Park, with its lions, tigers and bears, and free admission.
- [Cristian Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-cristian) — Monasteries and churches · Cristian, BV
  A Saxon church fortress in the Burzenland, near Brașov: a 19th-century Neoclassical church ringed by a double medieval wall with eight surviving defensive towers.
- [Criț Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-crit) — Monasteries and churches · Criț, BV · 30 min
  A 19th-century Lutheran church with an 1813 organ, enclosed by an oval 15th-century wall, on a hill in the middle of a quiet Saxon village a few kilometres off the DN13.
- [Cuza Vodă House in Galați](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-cuza-voda-galati) — Museums and memorial houses · Galați, GL · 4 lei · 45 min
  The house of Alexandru Ioan Cuza's parents, now the first house museum founded in Galați (1939), reopened in 2024 after restoration, with an exhibition on the ruler of the Union and on Galați between 1850 and 1930.
- [Dacia Hotel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/hotelul-dacia-satu-mare) — Monuments and historic sites · Satu Mare, SM · Free · 15 min
  The former Pannonia Hotel, built in 1901–1902 in Liberty Square to plans by Zoltán Bálint and Lajos Jámbor, is one of the finest Secession buildings in Satu Mare. It can only be seen from outside: it is under restoration.
- [Danube Promenade (Faleza Dunării)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/faleza-dunarii-galati) — Parks and gardens · Galați, GL · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  Galați's 3–4 km promenade, on two levels above the Danube, with metal sculptures from the 1976–1991 camps and restaurants on boats; under redevelopment since 2026.
- [Darvas-La Roche House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-darvas-la-roche) — Museums and memorial houses · Oradea, BH · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  The Secession villa of the industrialist Imre Darvas, designed by the Vágó brothers in 1909–1912, now houses Romania's first Art Nouveau museum, with period interiors and a garden.
- [Desești Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-desesti) — Monasteries and churches · Desești, MM · UNESCO World Heritage
  A wooden church from 1770 dedicated to Saint Paraskeva, painted in 1780 by Radu Munteanu with a crowded Last Judgement; one of the eight Maramureș churches on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
- [Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-national-al-satului-dimitrie-gusti) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 40 lei · 2 – 2½ hours
  An open-air ethnographic museum on the shore of Lake Herăstrău, in the middle of Bucharest: farmsteads, wooden churches, mills and workshops brought from all over the country and rebuilt here since 1936.
- [Dragons' Garden (Grădina Zmeilor)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-zmeilor) — National parks and reserves · Gâlgău Almașului, SJ · ½ – 1 hours
  A geological reserve in Sălaj with 10–15 m sandstone towers and spurs, shaped by erosion and named by locals "the Dragon and the Dragoness", "Fata Cătanei" or "the Monks".
- [First Romanian School](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/prima-scoala-romaneasca) — Museums and memorial houses · Brașov, BV · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  The old school in the courtyard of St Nicholas' Church in Șcheii Brașovului, now a museum: a classroom with wooden benches, a replica of Coresi's printing press and Romanian books five centuries old.
- [Focul Viu (Living Fire) of Andreiașu de Jos](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/focul-viu-andreiasu) — National parks and reserves · Andreiașu de Jos, VN · 30 min
  A nature reserve in the Vrancea Subcarpathians where methane gas seeps out of the ground and burns by itself, in small flames best seen in dry weather and towards evening.
- [Focul Viu Ice Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-ghetarul-de-la-focul-viu) — Caves · Pietroasa, BH · Free
  An ice cave in the forests of the Galbena Valley near Padiș, reached on foot along a marked trail. Around midday, light pours in through a hole in the roof and falls on the ice.
- [Galați Botanical Garden](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-botanica-galati) — Parks and gardens · Galați, GL · 7 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The youngest botanical garden in Romania, on 18 hectares above the Danube: a rose garden with thousands of roses, a Japanese garden with a lake, a sensory garden and plant collections from five continents.
- [George Enescu Memorial House in Liveni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-memoriala-george-enescu-liveni) — Museums and memorial houses · Liveni, BT · 10 lei · 45 min
  The house in the village of Liveni, rebuilt on the foundations of the one where George Enescu was born in 1881, holds an exhibition on the composer's childhood: the pianino, rugs, photographs and early scores.
- [Giurgiu Clock Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/turnul-cu-ceas-giurgiu) — Monuments and historic sites · Giurgiu, GR · Free · 15 min
  An 18th-century Ottoman watchtower, 22 m high and slightly leaning, in the middle of Piața Unirii: the symbol of Giurgiu and of the county's coat of arms.
- [Grand Square (Piața Mare)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/piata-mare-sibiu) — Monuments and historic sites · Sibiu, SB · Free · 45 min
  The main square of old Sibiu, about 140 by 90 metres, enclosed by merchants' houses with "eyes" in their roofs, by the Brukenthal Palace, the Jesuit church and the Council Tower.
- [Greek Church “Annunciation” in Brăila](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-greaca-braila) — Monasteries and churches · Brăila, BR · Free · 30 min
  The church raised between 1863 and 1872 by Brăila’s Greek community to plans by the architect Avraam Ioanidis: a Byzantine-style building with a clock tower, paintings by Tattarescu and Liochis, and the famous Healing Spring.
- [Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-de-istorie-naturala-grigore-antipa) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The museum on Kiseleff Road holds the 1907 dioramas, the Deinotherium skeleton and over 2 million zoological, palaeontological and mineralogical pieces, in a building inaugurated in 1908.
- [Gura Portiței](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gura-portitei) — Seaside · Jurilovca, TL · Free · 5 – 5½ hours
  A strip of sand between the Black Sea and Lake Golovița, in the Danube Delta, reached only by boat from Jurilovca: a wide beach with reed sunshades and a single resort.
- [Hărman Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-harman) — Monasteries and churches · Hărman, BV · 20 lei
  A 13th-century Romanesque basilica enclosed by 12 m walls with seven towers, with the tallest bell tower in the Burzenland and a chapel of 15th-century Gothic frescoes.
- [Hațeg Bison Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rezervatia-de-zimbri-hateg) — Zoos and aquariums · Hațeg, HD · 45 min
  Romania's oldest European bison reserve, in the Slivuț forest near Hațeg: the first bison brought from Poland arrived here in 1958, and the herd can be watched from the fence of the enclosure.
- [Hoia-Baciu Forest](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/padurea-hoia-baciu) — Parks and gardens · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · Free · 1½ – 2 hours
  A forest of about 300 ha on the western edge of Cluj, known for its twisted tree trunks, the Round Clearing and the "paranormal" legends that made it famous worldwide.
- [Homorod Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-homorod) — Monasteries and churches · Homorod, BV · 45 min
  A 13th-century Romanesque hall church with an eight-storey keep above the old choir, two rings of walls and fragments of medieval wall paintings, a few kilometres from Rupea.
- [Horezu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-horezu) — Monasteries and churches · Horezu, VL · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  Constantin Brâncoveanu's largest foundation, officially Hurezi Monastery: the model ensemble of the Brâncovenesc style, built in 1690–1693 and a UNESCO site since 1993.
- [Hosman Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-hosman) — Monasteries and churches · Hosman, SB · 45 min
  A 13th-century Romanesque church with a richly carved portal, enclosed by a double ring of walls in the Hârtibaciu valley, with the Făgăraș Mountains behind.
- [Huda lui Papară Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-huda-lui-papara) — Caves · Sub Piatră, AB · 300 lei · 3 – 3½ hours
  An active cave in the Trascău Mountains, with a portal almost 40 m high in the limestone wall and an underground river of lakes and waterfalls, visited only on guided tours in a wetsuit.
- [Huniade Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-huniade-timisoara) — Castles and palaces · Timișoara, TM · 20 min
  The oldest building in Timișoara, a royal residence in the Middle Ages and the historic home of the Banat Museum; closed for restoration and visible from the outside only.
- [Huși Episcopal Cathedral](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-episcopala-husi) — Monasteries and churches · Huși, VS · Free · 45 min
  The Church of Saints Peter and Paul, founded by Stephen the Great in 1495 and rebuilt in the 18th century: the cathedral of the Diocese of Huși, with the voivode's inscription preserved and a historic walled precinct.
- [I Giardini di Zoe (Zoe's Gardens)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradinile-zoe) — Parks and gardens · Banpotoc, HD · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  A private Italian-style garden at Banpotoc, near Deva: travertine paths, geometrically clipped hedges, fountains and vases brought from Italy, over almost 3.5 hectares, open to the public since 2018.
- [Iadolina Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-iadolina) — Waterfalls · Budureasa, BH · Free · 30 min
  A multi-tiered waterfall on the Iad Valley, tumbling between huge boulders right beside the road from Stâna de Vale to Lake Leșu; you see it from a metal viewing platform or from below, by the water.
- [Ieud Hill Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-ieud-deal) — Monasteries and churches · Ieud, MM · UNESCO World Heritage
  The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on Ieud's rocky hillside, built in 1611–1621, painted inside by Alexandru Ponehalschi and the place where the Ieud Codex was found. A UNESCO site.
- [Ighișu Nou Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-ighisu-nou) — Monasteries and churches · Ighișu Nou, SB · 30 min
  A Saxon Gothic church of the 14th–15th centuries, with a defensive tower under a hipped roof, a complete enclosure wall, a round bastion from 1515 and medieval frescoes in the choir.
- [Ipotești Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-ipotesti) — Museums and memorial houses · Ipotești, BT · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The Eminovici family house in Ipotești, rebuilt on the foundations of the one from Mihai Eminescu's childhood, with the family's wooden church, his parents' graves and a peasant house holding an ethnographic collection.
- [Jupiter–Cap Aurora](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/jupiter-cap-aurora) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  Two neighbouring resorts north of Mangalia: Jupiter, its beach split by groynes into small bays, and Cap Aurora, with stepped hotels named after precious stones.
- [Kálnoky Castle in Micloșoara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-kalnoky-miclosoara) — Castles and palaces · Micloșoara, CV · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  A Renaissance hunting manor of the Counts Kálnoky, begun in 1648, with bastions and rare stucco work, restored and opened in 2017 as the Museum of Transylvanian Life, with guided tours.
- [King Michael I Park (Herăstrău)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-regele-mihai-i-herastrau) — Parks and gardens · București · Free · 2 – 2½ hours
  Bucharest's largest park, on the shore of Lake Herăstrău: nearly 190 hectares of strolling paths, the Japanese Garden, Caryatid Alley and Rose Island.
- [Lacu Sărat Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacu-sarat) — Resorts and thermal baths · Lacu Sărat, BR · 2½ – 3 hours
  A spa resort more than a century old, 5 km from Brăila, on the shore of a lake with hypertonic water and sapropelic mud. It has treatment centres, a historic park and a lakeside beach.
- [Lake Beliș-Fântânele](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-belis-fantanele) — Lakes · Beliș, CJ · Free
  A reservoir about 13 km long on the Someșul Cald in the Apuseni Mountains, at almost 1,000 m; in dry summers the ruined church of the drowned village of Giurcuța de Jos rises from the water.
- [Lake Bolboci](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-bolboci) — Lakes · Moroeni, DB · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  A reservoir on the Ialomița at 1,438 m, in the heart of the Bucegi Mountains, held back by a 55 m stone dam and ringed by spruce forest, between the Tătaru and Zănoaga gorges.
- [Lake Cuejdel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-cuejdel) — Lakes · Gârcina, NT · Free · 2 – 2½ hours
  Romania's largest natural dam lake, formed by landslides between 1978 and 1991 in the Stânișoarei Mountains, with bare spruce trunks rising out of the water; reached on foot through the forest.
- [Lake Mogoșa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-mogosa) — Lakes · Baia Sprie, MM · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  A 4-hectare reservoir at 731 m in the forests of the Gutâi Mountains above the town of Baia Sprie, with a lakeside path, terrace, beach and kayaks for hire in summer, 18 km from Baia Mare.
- [Lake Razim](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-razim) — Lakes · Sarichioi, TL · Free
  Romania's largest lake, a lagoon of about 415 km² south of the Danube Delta, with Lipovan fishing villages on its shores, protected islands and the ruins of Enisala and Argamum above the water.
- [Lake Siriu](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-siriu) — Lakes · Siriu, BZ · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  A reservoir over 10 km long in the Buzău valley, between the Siriu and Podu Calului mountains; the DN10 winds along its shore over viaducts, with views of the water and the 122 m rockfill dam.
- [Lake Siutghiol](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-siutghiol) — Lakes · Ovidiu, CT · Free
  The freshwater lake behind Mamaia, 7.5 km long, with water sports bases on the resort side and little Ovidiu Island, tied to the legend of the Roman poet, off the town of Ovidiu.
- [Lake Tarnița](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-tarnita) — Lakes · Gilău, CJ · Free
  A reservoir almost 9 km long on the Someșul Cald, about 30 km from Cluj-Napoca, with wooded slopes, a 97 m arch dam and sailing or kayaking on the water.
- [Lake Techirghiol](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-techirghiol) — Lakes · Techirghiol, CT · Free
  Romania's largest salt lake, a former sea bay next to Eforie: cold mud baths on the Techirghiol shore in summer, flocks of rare birds on water that does not freeze in winter.
- [Lake Trei Ape](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-trei-ape) — Lakes · Brebu Nou, CS · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  A 53-hectare reservoir in the Semenic Mountains, at 837 m, ringed by spruce and beech right beside the Transsemenic road; in summer it is the mountain Banat's spot for swimming, boating and camping.
- [Lázár Castle in Lăzarea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-lazar-lazarea) — Castles and palaces · Lăzarea, HR · 35 lei
  The Renaissance castle of the Lázár family, with four bastions, a gate tower and walls topped by ornamental crenellations, at the edge of the forest near Gheorgheni; Gabriel Bethlen spent his childhood here.
- [Lotrișor Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-lotrisor) — Waterfalls · Călimănești, VL · 10 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  A waterfall of about 30 m in Cozia National Park, where the stream bursts out of a tunnel cut through the rock; reached on foot along a gentle forest road through the Lotrișor Gorge.
- [Mangalia Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-mangalia) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  The town's own beach, running from the marina breakwater towards Saturn below the promenade rebuilt in 2022; since autumn 2026 it is being widened with sand, behind four new breakwaters.
- [Manuc's Inn](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/hanul-lui-manuc) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 45 min
  An inn from 1808, built by the merchant and diplomat Manuc Bei beside the Old Court: a listed building with an inner courtyard and wooden balconies, where the 1812 Russo-Turkish peace talks took place.
- [Mărășești Mausoleum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mausoleul-de-la-marasesti) — Monuments and historic sites · Mărășești, VN · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  The First World War heroes' mausoleum, built between 1923 and 1938 on the 1917 battlefield, with 5,073 soldiers in its crypts and a museum of the battles.
- [Maria Filotti Theatre](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/teatrul-maria-filotti-braila) — Monuments and historic sites · Brăila, BR · 1½ – 2 hours
  The former Rally Theatre, a heritage building in Brăila's historic centre, with a richly ornamented façade on Calea Regală, restored with EU funds and still a working repertory theatre.
- [Maria Theresia Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bastionul-maria-theresia) — Fortresses and fortifications · Timișoara, TM · 40 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The largest surviving piece of Timișoara's bastioned fortress, built by the Austrians in the 1730s and restored with EU funds, now home to the National Museum of Banat.
- [Memorial of the December 1989 Revolution](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-revolutiei-timisoara) — Museums and memorial houses · Timișoara, TM · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The museum of the Memorial of the Revolution Association, in a former military building in Timișoara: clothes and flags from the days of December 1989, a chapel of the hero-martyrs and the only section of the Berlin Wall in Romania.
- [Metropolitan Cathedral of the Three Holy Hierarchs](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catedrala-mitropolitana-timisoara) — Monasteries and churches · Timișoara, TM · Free · 30 min
  The Orthodox cathedral of the Banat, built between 1936 and 1946 in the Neo-Moldavian style, with a main tower of over 80 m, glazed-tile roofs and a museum of old church art in the basement.
- [Meziad Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-meziad) — Caves · Meziad, BH · 40 lei · 50 min
  One of Romania's oldest show caves, with a 16 m high entrance arch, vast chambers on two levels and one of the largest bat colonies in the country.
- [Mlaștina Hergheliei Nature Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mlastina-hergheliei) — National parks and reserves · Mangalia, CT · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  A 98-hectare former lagoon between Saturn and Venus, with reed beds, open water and sulphur springs where swans, egrets and black-winged stilts stop over; you watch it from the surrounding roads.
- [Moara Dracului Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-moara-dracului) — Waterfalls · Budureasa, BH · Free · 5½ – 6 hours
  A 20–25 m, two-tier waterfall hidden in a narrow valley of giant boulders and spruce on the western slope of the Vlădeasa massif; reached on foot from Stâna de Vale along a marked trail of about 8 km.
- [Moldovița Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-moldovita) — Monasteries and churches · Vatra Moldoviței, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  Founded by Petru Rareș in 1532, with a church painted on the outside in shades of yellow and blue and the famous Siege of Constantinople fresco; a UNESCO site in Bukovina.
- [Moon Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-cu-luna) — Monasteries and churches · Oradea, BH · Free · 30 min
  The Orthodox church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Piața Unirii, built in 1784–1790 and known for the globe in its tower that shows the phases of the Moon, in a mechanism of 1793.
- [Moșna Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-mosna) — Monasteries and churches · Moșna, SB · ½ – 1 hours
  One of the largest Gothic hall churches in the Târnava valley, with a massive bell tower and a walled enclosure with towers; part of the wall collapsed in June 2026.
- [Mount Tâmpa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muntele-tampa) — Mountains and trails · Brașov, BV · 45 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The wooded 960 m mountain that rises straight out of central Brașov: the “BRAȘOV” letters, views over the old town, a nature reserve, marked trails and a cable car from its foot.
- [National Museum of Art Timișoara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-de-arta-timisoara) — Museums and memorial houses · Timișoara, TM · 1 – 1½ hours
  The museum in the Baroque Palace on Union Square holds old European painting, Banat and Romanian art and the Corneliu Baba collection, in a building begun in 1754.
- [National Museum of the Romanian Peasant](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-national-al-taranului-roman) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 20 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  The museum in the Neo-Romanian building on Kiseleff Road, named European Museum of the Year in 1996, keeps over 100,000 objects of peasant art and civilisation.
- [Neamț Bison Reserve](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rezervatia-de-zimbri-neamt) — Zoos and aquariums · Vânători-Neamț, NT · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The “Dragoș Vodă” reserve, founded in 1968 in Vânători-Neamț Nature Park: a small zoo with bison, deer and birds, at the edge of the forest where free-ranging bison live.
- [Negoiești Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-negoiesti) — Monasteries and churches · Negoești, CL · 45 min
  A foundation of 1648–1649 by Matei Basarab and Lady Elina on the bank of the Argeș: a three-towered church with 19th-century frescoes, restored with EU funds and reconsecrated in 2016.
- [Nicolae Romanescu Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-nicolae-romanescu) — Parks and gardens · Craiova, DJ · Free · 2 – 2½ hours
  A romantic park of nearly 100 hectares designed by the Frenchman Édouard Redont and inaugurated in 1903, with a lake, a suspension bridge, the Enchanted Castle and the zoo, in the south of Craiova.
- [Ochiul Beiului Lake](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-ochiul-beiului) — Lakes · Caraș-Severin County · ~12 lei · 2½ – 3 hours
  A small karst lake with turquoise water clear to the bottom, fed by a spring beneath it and hidden in the forest of the Bei valley, in the Cheile Nerei – Beușnița National Park.
- [Ocna Șugatag](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ocna-sugatag) — Resorts and thermal baths · Ocna Șugatag, MM · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  A spa resort in Maramureș with salt lakes that formed on the surface above old salt mines, including Lake Gavril, 30 m deep; salt-water bathing happens in the pools of the local complexes.
- [Oradea City Hall Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-primariei-oradea) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · 15 lei · 30 min
  An eclectic palace of 1902–1903 on Piața Unirii, home to the city hall, with a tower of almost 50 m: its clock plays Iancu's March, and the top gives a view over the rooftops of the centre.
- [Oradea Zoo](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-zoologica-oradea) — Zoos and aquariums · Oradea, BH · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  Oradea's zoological garden, open since 1962 on the grounds of a noble park with a chapel, rebuilt between 2010 and 2013 and now covering 7.5 hectares, with tigers, wolves, bears, zebras and dozens of other species.
- [Panait Istrati Memorial House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-memoriala-panait-istrati-braila) — Museums and memorial houses · Brăila, BR · 30 min
  A red-brick house-museum in Brăila's Public Garden, with manuscripts, signed books and personal belongings of the writer Panait Istrati. It is not his birthplace but a former gardener's house.
- [Pătrăuți Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-patrauti) — Monasteries and churches · Pătrăuți, SV · UNESCO World Heritage
  The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built by Stephen the Great in 1487: his oldest surviving foundation, with the "Cavalcade of the Holy Cross" fresco; a UNESCO site near Suceava.
- [Piatra Roșie Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-dacica-piatra-rosie) — Fortresses and fortifications · Luncani, HD · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  A Dacian fortress on top of a rocky hill above Luncani, with an ancient paved road of stone steps and tower ruins hidden in the forest; a UNESCO site, far from the crowds.
- [Pișoaia Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-pisoaia) — Waterfalls · Vidra, AB · Free · 45 min
  An 18 m waterfall spilling down a limestone wall in the Țara Moților region, near the village of Nemeși in Vidra commune; a landscape reserve 500 m from the road to Avram Iancu.
- [Plătărești Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-plataresti) — Monasteries and churches · Plătărești, CL · 45 min
  A foundation of Prince Matei Basarab, 20 km from Bucharest: a brick church built in 1642–1646, with original frescoes from 1649 in the narthex, preserved only here and at Arnota.
- [Poiana Brașov](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/poiana-brasov) — Resorts and thermal baths · Brașov, BV · Free · 5½ – 6 hours
  Romania's best-known ski resort, above 1,000 m beneath Postăvaru: 12 slopes, cable cars almost to the summit and, in summer, forest trails and views over Brașov.
- [Polovragi Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-polovragi) — Caves · Polovragi, GJ · 20 lei · 45 min
  A cave more than 10 km long, carved by the Olteț river into the limestone of the Olteț Gorge, with 800 m of gallery open to visitors and legends about Zalmoxis, a kilometre from Polovragi Monastery.
- [Popăuți Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-popauti) — Monasteries and churches · Botoșani, BT · 30 min
  The Church of St Nicholas, built by Stephen the Great in 1496: the oldest church in Botoșani, of bare red brick, with a stone bell tower from the same period.
- [Porolissum Archaeological Complex](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/porolissum) — Monuments and historic sites · Moigrad-Porolissum, SJ · 11 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage
  The northernmost bastion of Roman Dacia: the fort with its reconstructed gates, the paved imperial road, the civil town and the amphitheatre, on the hills at Moigrad in Sălaj.
- [Probota Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-probota) — Monasteries and churches · Probota, SV · UNESCO World Heritage
  Peter Rareș's 1530 foundation and his family's burial place, with the fresco-painted church of St Nicholas inside fortress-like walls; a UNESCO site near Dolhasca.
- [Putna Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-putnei) — Waterfalls · Lepșa, VN · 2 lei · 45 min
  A series of steps and potholes where the Putna river drops 14 m over about 80 m between sandstone walls, near Lepșa; a nature reserve since 1973, minutes from the DN2D.
- [Regina Maria Theatre](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/teatrul-regina-maria-oradea) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · from 25 lei · 2 – 2½ hours
  The Oradea State Theatre building, designed by the Viennese firm Fellner & Helmer and opened in 1900: an Ionic portico on Piața Ferdinand and an auditorium with boxes and a balcony, still in use every week.
- [Richiș Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-din-richis) — Monasteries and churches · Richiș, SB · 45 min
  A Gothic basilica from the second half of the 14th century, with a gate tower and enclosure walls, known for the Green Man and the other faces carved in stone inside.
- [Rogoz Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-rogoz) — Monasteries and churches · Rogoz, MM · UNESCO World Heritage
  The Church of the Holy Archangels in Rogoz, built in 1663 and part of the Maramureș UNESCO site, has an asymmetric roof over the 'table of the ancestors', horse-head eaves brackets and paintings from 1785.
- [Roman Catholic Basilica of Oradea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bazilica-romano-catolica-oradea) — Monasteries and churches · Oradea, BH · Free · 30 min
  The Cathedral of the Assumption, built between 1752 and 1780: the largest Baroque church in Romania, with an organ given by Maria Theresa and an interior of marble, frescoes and gilding.
- [Roman Catholic Dome of St George](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/domul-romano-catolic-timisoara) — Monasteries and churches · Timișoara, TM · 30 min
  The Baroque cathedral of the Catholic bishopric of Timișoara, built between 1736 and 1774 on Union Square; restored with EU funds and reopened in April 2023, with the bishops' crypt under the altar.
- [Roman Fort of Tirighina-Barboși](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castrul-roman-tirighina-barbosi) — Monuments and historic sites · Galați, GL · 45 min
  A Roman fort on the Tirighina promontory where the Siret meets the Danube, in the Barboși district of Galați, with a site museum built inside the grounds and remains almost 1,900 years old.
- [Romanian Athenaeum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ateneul-roman) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 15 lei · 45 min
  The concert hall in the heart of Bucharest, built in 1886–1888 and paid for largely by public subscription: Ionic columns outside, a fresco over 70 m long telling the story of the Romanians inside.
- [Romulus Vuia National Ethnographic Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-etnografic-romulus-vuia) — Museums and memorial houses · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 10 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  Romania's first open-air museum, on Hoia hill: farmsteads, workshops, peasant installations and three wooden churches gathered over ~16 hectares into a scattered village.
- [Roses Park (Parcul Rozelor)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parcul-rozelor-timisoara) — Parks and gardens · Timișoara, TM · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  Timișoara's historic rose garden, laid out in 1929–1934: rose beds edged with clipped hedges, white wooden pergolas and an open-air summer theatre, in a park of nearly four hectares.
- [Rucăr–Bran Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/culoarul-rucar-bran) — Scenic roads · Brașov County · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  The pass between Piatra Craiului and the Bucegi: the DN73 climbs from Rucăr onto the Fundata plateau, over the Giuvala Pass at about 1,260 m, and descends to Bran past hamlets scattered on the ridges.
- [Săritoarea Ieduțului Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-saritoarea-iedutului) — Waterfalls · Budureasa, BH · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  A wild waterfall on the Ieduțul stream, hidden among ferns and fir trees above the Iad Valley, a quarter of an hour's walk through the forest from the road between Stâna de Vale and Lake Leșu.
- [Saturn](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/saturn) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  The resort that runs straight into Mangalia from the north: 1970s tower hotels, a beach in the middle of being widened, a public spa sanatorium and, behind it all, the Mlaștina Hergheliei nature reserve.
- [Sfânta Precista Fortified Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-fortificata-precista-galati) — Monasteries and churches · Galați, GL · Free · 30 min
  The oldest building in Galați, a merchants' church consecrated in 1647, with walls up to 1.8 m thick, a bell tower and a fortified loft with 28 loopholes, on the bank of the Danube.
- [Sfinții Voievozi Monastery, Slobozia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-sfintii-voievozi-slobozia) — Monasteries and churches · Slobozia, IL · Free · 30 min
  The oldest monastery in the Bărăgan, founded by the Grand Postelnic Ianache Caragea and rebuilt by Matei Basarab, with a 17th-century brick enclosure wall and a bell tower you enter through.
- [Sibiu Zoo](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-zoologica-sibiu) — Zoos and aquariums · Sibiu, SB · 20 lei · 2 – 2½ hours
  The zoo in the Dumbrava forest, opened in 1929 and considered the first in Romania, with tigers, lions, jaguars, white wolves, bears and lakes where you can go boating.
- [Simeria Arboretum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arboretumul-simeria) — Parks and gardens · Simeria, HD · 10 lei · 2 – 2½ hours
  Romania's oldest dendrological park, on almost 70 hectares beside the Mureș: more than 2,000 taxa, magnolias in spring and paths among centuries-old trees.
- [Sion Neolog Synagogue](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sinagoga-sion-oradea) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · 15 lei · 30 min
  A synagogue of 1877–1878 on the bank of the Crișul Repede, with a broad dome and a Moorish-style painted interior; restored and reopened in 2015, it is now a cultural venue.
- [Șipote Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-sipote) — Waterfalls · Sălciua de Jos, AB · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  A chain of travertine cascades on the Șipote stream, below the Bedeleu cliffs in the Trascău Mountains: the last one drops straight into the Arieș by the DN75, the upper ones are reached on a nature trail from Sălciua.
- [Șiria Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-siriei) — Fortresses and fortifications · Șiria, AR · Free · 1 – 1½ hours
  The ruins of a 13th-century stone fortress on Dealul Cetății above Șiria, with walls, towers and a wide view over the Arad Plain.
- [St John the New Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-sf-ioan-cel-nou-suceava) — Monasteries and churches · Suceava, SV · UNESCO World Heritage
  The former metropolitan cathedral of Moldavia, built in 1514–1522 in the centre of Suceava and home to the relics of St John the New; its church of St George is a UNESCO site.
- [St Margaret's Church, Mediaș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-sfanta-margareta-din-medias) — Monasteries and churches · Mediaș, SB · 15 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  The Lutheran church in the centre of Mediaș, late Gothic and enclosed in a fortress with walls and towers; its leaning tower, with a five-pointed spire, is the town's emblem.
- [St Nicholas Church in Densuș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-densus) — Monasteries and churches · Densuș, HD · Free · 45 min
  A small stone church in the Hațeg Country, built largely from Roman blocks brought from Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, with a tower over the nave, stone lions on the roof and paintings from 1443.
- [St Nicholas Church in Șchei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-sfantul-nicolae-din-schei) — Monasteries and churches · Brașov, BV · 45 min
  The Orthodox church of the Romanians of Șcheii Brașovului, built from 1495 on the site of a wooden one, with Gothic-Baroque towers, painted façades and Nicolae Titulescu's grave in the churchyard.
- [Stavropoleos Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-stavropoleos) — Monasteries and churches · București · Free · 30 min
  A small convent in the Old Town with a Brâncoveanu-style church from 1724, façades painted with saints in medallions, an arcaded courtyard and a lapidary of stones from vanished Bucharest churches.
- [Sucidava Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-sucidava) — Fortresses and fortifications · Corabia, OT · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  The Daco-Roman and Roman-Byzantine fortress in Corabia, with its excavated walls and towers, a 6th-century basilica, the "secret well" and the northern pier of Constantine the Great's bridge over the Danube.
- [Székely National Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-national-secuiesc) — Museums and memorial houses · Sfântu Gheorghe, CV · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  The oldest museum in Székely Land, in a building designed by Kós Károly in 1911–1912: history, ethnography, natural sciences and a garden with Székely gates.
- [Tamina Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-tamina) — Waterfalls · Brașov, BV · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  A chain of five waterfalls in a narrow limestone gorge in the Piatra Mare Mountains, above Timișu de Sus; reached in about an hour's climb on the blue-stripe trail.
- [Târgu Mureș Zoo](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-zoologica-targu-mures) — Zoos and aquariums · Târgu Mureș, MS · 40 lei · 2 – 2½ hours
  The zoo on the Cornești Plateau, open since 1964 and now spread over 42 hectares of forest, with elephants, giraffes, gibbons, tigers, lions and bears, the largest in Romania by area.
- [Țării Crișurilor Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-tarii-crisurilor) — Museums and memorial houses · Oradea, BH · 15 lei · 1½ – 2 hours
  Bihor's county museum, housed since its move in the former Royal Cadet School of 1898: archaeology, history, art, ethnography, natural sciences and a vivarium under one roof.
- [Tihuța Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-tihuta) — Scenic roads · Bistrița-Năsăud County · Free · 1½ – 2 hours
  The pass where the DN17 crosses from Transylvania into Bukovina at 1,201 m, between Bistrița and Vatra Dornei: spruce-dotted pastures, a 31 m cross and a hotel inspired by the Borgo Pass of “Dracula”.
- [Traian Square (Piața Traian)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/piata-traian-braila) — Monuments and historic sites · Brăila, BR · Free · 45 min
  The central square of old Brăila, from which the streets of the historic centre fan out, with the blue Public Clock of 1909, the Holy Archangels church, a former mosque, and the statue of Trajan.
- [Transapuseana](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/transapuseana) — Scenic roads · Alba County · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  County road DJ107I, 78 km through the Trascău Mountains between Aiud and Bucium, near Abrud: villages scattered along the ridges, thatched houses and views from over 1,100 m.
- [Transursoaia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/transursoaia) — Scenic roads · Alba County · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  National road DN1R, 80 km through the Apuseni Mountains between Huedin and Albac: past Lake Beliș-Fântânele, through the Moți villages and over the Ursoaia Pass, at about 1,320 m.
- [Tulcea Aquarium](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/acvariul-tulcea) — Zoos and aquariums · Tulcea, TL · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  The public aquarium in central Tulcea, with fish from the Danube and the Black Sea, coral reef tanks and a tunnel among sturgeon, plus an exhibition on the Delta's wildlife.
- [Turda Gorge](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cheile-turzii) — Gorges and canyons · Mihai Viteazu, CJ · 2 – 2½ hours
  A limestone gorge 6 km from Turda, with walls over 100 m high, a lower trail with footbridges over the Hășdate river, caves and hundreds of climbing routes.
- [Turnu Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-turnu) — Fortresses and fortifications · Turnu Măgurele, TR · 30 min
  The ruins of a medieval fortress on the Danube bank, documented in the time of Mircea the Elder and held by the Ottomans until 1829, with a consolidated round central tower.
- [Tuzla Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plaja-tuzla) — Seaside · Tuzla, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A narrow strip of sand below a high earth cliff covered in scrub, next to the oldest working lighthouse on the Romanian coast, with clear, turquoise-green water.
- [Unguru Mare Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-unguru-mare) — Caves · Șuncuiuș, BH · 20 lei · 30 min
  A cave with an entrance more than 30 m high facing the Crișul Repede, reached over a suspension bridge and inhabited by people as far back as the Neolithic.
- [Union Square (Piața Unirii)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/piata-unirii-timisoara) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  Timișoara's oldest square, about 150 by 110 metres, laid out in the Baroque style around the Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Serbian Cathedral and the Plague Column, among colourful houses from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
- [Valea Cetății Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-valea-cetatii) — Caves · Râșnov, BV · 35 lei · ½ – 1 hours
  A lit cave on the slopes of Postăvarul, between Râșnov and Poiana Brașov, with a great hall over 20 m high, visited with a guide and sometimes used for concerts.
- [Vânătările Ponorului Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-vanatarile-ponorului) — Waterfalls · Dumești, AB · Free · ½ – 1 hours
  A 70–80 m chain of waterfalls, with a 25 m main drop, plunging into a huge sinkhole in the Trascău Mountains and vanishing underground; seen from a wooden balcony a short walk from the road.
- [Vânturătoarea Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-vanturatoarea) — Waterfalls · Băile Herculane, CS · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  A two-tier waterfall of about 50 m in the Cerna Mountains, with Romania's longest free drop (~40 m), above Lake Prisaca; reached by a steep 1.5 km path from the Cerna valley road, 13 km from Băile Herculane.
- [Vârciorog Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-varciorog) — Waterfalls · Arieșeni, AB · Free · 2 – 2½ hours
  A waterfall of about 15 m on the Vârciorog stream, tucked into a spruce forest below Piatra Grăitoare, near Arieșeni; reached up a wooded valley on foot or by horse cart.
- [Vârtop Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-ghetarul-de-la-vartop) — Caves · Casa de Piatră, AB · 15 lei
  An undeveloped cave in the Bihor Mountains, with ice at the entrance and white formations, where a Neanderthal footprint at least 62,000 years old was found in 1974.
- [Vârtop Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-vartop) — Scenic roads · Bihor County · Free
  The pass where the DN75 crosses the Bihor Mountains at 1,160 m, between Nucet and Arieșeni: the Vârtop holiday village, ski slopes and trails to Groapa Ruginoasă and Piatra Grăitoare.
- [Vaser Valley Forest Railway (Mocănița)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mocanita-valea-vaserului) — Monuments and historic sites · Vișeu de Sus, MM · 136 lei · 5½ – 6 hours
  The last working forest railway in the Carpathians: a steam-hauled train climbs 21.6 km up the Vaser valley, through the Maramureș Mountains Nature Park, to Paltin station.
- [Vasile Fati Botanical Garden, Jibou](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gradina-botanica-jibou) — Parks and gardens · Jibou, SJ · 25 lei · 2½ – 3 hours
  A botanical garden of almost 24 hectares in the former park of the Wesselényi castle: a Japanese garden with lakes and pavilions, greenhouses with palms and cacti, aquariums and thousands of tulips in spring.
- [Vasile Pârvan Museum, Bârlad](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-vasile-parvan-barlad) — Museums and memorial houses · Bârlad, VS · 16 lei · 1 – 1½ hours
  Vaslui County's museum, in a neoclassical palace that was once a prefecture: archaeology, history, art, local figures, plus an astronomical observatory and planetarium.
- [Vaslui Princely Court (Curtea Domnească din Vaslui)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/curtea-domneasca-vaslui) — Monuments and historic sites · Vaslui, VS · 45 min
  An archaeological park laid out on the site of Moldavia's princely court in Vaslui, with the Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist, a foundation of Stephen the Great from 1490, in the town centre.
- [Venus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/venus) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A resort on the southern coast, three kilometres north of Mangalia: a recently widened beach, bays closed off by breakwaters, hotels with women's names set around a lake and sulphurous waters used for treatment.
- [Victory Square (Piața Victoriei)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/piata-victoriei-timisoara) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · Free · 45 min
  Timișoara's pedestrian esplanade between the Opera in the Palace of Culture and the Metropolitan Cathedral, lined with the Corso palaces and the place where Timișoara was declared the first free city in December 1989.
- [Weavers' Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bastionul-tesatorilor) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · 10 lei · 45 min
  The best-preserved bastion of Brașov's city walls, built by the weavers' guild in the 15th and 16th centuries, with timber galleries on four levels and a model of the medieval town.
- [Wooden Church of Plopiș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-plopis) — Monasteries and churches · Plopiș, MM · Free · UNESCO World Heritage
  An oak church built by the village's 49 families at the end of the 18th century, with a slender tower of almost 47 m and a trefoil vault unique among wooden churches, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- [Wooden Church of Poienile Izei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-poienile-izei) — Monasteries and churches · Poienile Izei, MM · UNESCO World Heritage
  An early 17th-century wooden church in the village cemetery, with the best-known depiction of Hell in Maramureș: devils, torments and village sins, painted in 1793–1794.
- [Wooden Church of Șurdești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-surdesti) — Monasteries and churches · Șurdești, MM · UNESCO World Heritage
  The oak-built Greek Catholic church of Șurdești village, with a 54-metre tower and a total height of 72 metres, one of the tallest old timber buildings in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage monument.
- [Zănoaga Lake](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-zanoaga) — Lakes · Hunedoara County · 10 lei · 8½ – 9 hours
  Romania's deepest glacial lake, 29 m deep, at almost 2,000 m in the south-west of Retezat National Park; it can only be reached on foot, on a long day hike.
- [Zărnești Bear Sanctuary](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sanctuarul-de-ursi-zarnesti) — Zoos and aquariums · Zărnești, BV · 95 lei · 1 – 1¼ hours
  The Libearty Bear Sanctuary, on 69 hectares of forest near Zărnești: home to more than 120 brown bears rescued from captivity, visited only on guided tours. It is not a zoo.
- [Zbuciumată Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-zbuciumata) — Waterfalls · Nucșoara, AG · Free · 30 min
  A waterfall of almost 100 m in three tiers on the side of the Valea Rea valley in the Făgăraș Mountains, below Moldoveanu Peak; it can be seen from Stâna lui Burnei, at the end of the forest road from Slatina.

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