Attractions in Romania

A wooden church of 1798 with a low bell tower over the narthex and paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, raised with material from the former Cioara monastery, a place tied to Sofronie of Cioara.

A wooden church of 1808, built by the village's free peasants, with its original painting kept on the iconostasis and a masonry porch of 1869 painted in bright colours.

A wooden church of 1664, founded by Metropolitan Stephen I, standing on a high limestone plinth with Cyrillic inscriptions on its outer walls, at the edge of a fir forest.

A wooden church of around 1700, regarded as the oldest in Bihor County, with a slender shingle-clad tower, a porch on two sides and an iconostasis painted in 1780.

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.

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.