Attractions in Romania

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 monastery built by the sword-bearer Mihail Cantacuzino in 1690–1695 that gave the town its name: the old church with Pârvu Mutu's frescoes, the great church rebuilt for Carol I and a museum holding the Bucharest Bible.

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.

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.

A fortified monastery raised by Alexandru Lăpușneanu in the 1550s, with a perimeter wall and towers, a princely necropolis of Moldavia and today a convent of nuns.

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul, founded by Ștefan Tomșa II in 1612–1622, one of the tallest in northern Moldavia, surrounded by enclosure walls with towers.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

A defensive tower in Sebeș's town fortifications, built by the tailors' guild at the end of the 14th century and tied to the story of the student who survived the Ottoman siege of 1438.

The residence of the rulers of Wallachia for almost three centuries, with the Chindia Tower, the ruins of the princely palace and the Great Princely Church, home to the largest votive painting of rulers in the country.

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.