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.
Top 100The 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Top 100Constantin 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vaslui County's museum, in a neoclassical palace that was once a prefecture: archaeology, history, art, local figures, plus an astronomical observatory and planetarium.
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