Parks and gardens

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.