Churches

One of the oldest wooden churches south of the Carpathians, dated by inscription to 1556–1557, very small and unpainted, with an iconostasis decorated with designs scratched into the wood.

A 17th-century wooden church, rebuilt in 1725 for the salt-mine workers and convicts of Târgu Ocna, with an iconostasis painted in 1833 and a bell tower with a bulb-shaped spire.

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.

An 18th-century wooden church on the Banat plain, with a small shingled tower and wall paintings worn away by time, sheltered by a protective scaffold until its restoration.

A wooden church of 1765 in the west of Hunedoara County, with a tall, pointed bell tower and old painting on the timber walls and vault inside.

A small 18th-century wooden church in the cemetery of an isolated hillside village, tied to the tradition that Stephen the Great built it from the oak that hid him.

The Gothic church of the Sibiu Saxons, with a 73-metre tower you can climb, the 1914 Sauer organ, the 1445 Crucifixion fresco and the gravestones of the ferula.

A 15th-century Gothic Saxon church with more than 250 sq m of medieval wall paintings, uncovered bit by bit from beneath whitewash and among the largest in Transylvania.

A small wooden church of 1717 in the cemetery of the Schit Călugărița hamlet, with a carved portal, a twisted-rope belt and 92 blind arcades on its walls.

A 13th-century Romanesque basilica surrounded by a defensive wall, with frescoes of 1522 and Gothic net vaults; the building is included in a restoration project.

A 15th-century Gothic church, extended in 1819 and ringed by a wall with loopholes; its slender tower is an example of the Ciuc type, and 15th-century frescoes survive inside.

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.

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.

A small wooden church of 1820–1822, plastered and painted in 1835, standing in the cemetery of a scattered village on the Mehedinți Plateau and currently under restoration.

A wooden church of 1712 with a tall, slender spire, hidden in a village in the Apuseni Mountains and keeping interior paintings of 1791.