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One of the strongest Dacian fortresses in the Orăștie Mountains: murus dacicus walls, six towers and a dog-leg entrance, on a wooded hill above Costești, a UNESCO site.
A Saxon church fortress in the Burzenland, near Brașov: a 19th-century Neoclassical church ringed by a double medieval wall with eight surviving defensive towers.
A 19th-century Lutheran church with an 1813 organ, enclosed by an oval 15th-century wall, on a hill in the middle of a quiet Saxon village a few kilometres off the DN13.
An Oltenian fortified tower-house from 1812–1827, with a massive ground floor and a decorated veranda, built by the Măldărescu family and bought in 1910 by I.G. Duca; now part of the Măldărești Museum Complex near Horezu.
A massive elliptical tower from the 15th century in the north-east corner of Brașov's walled town, below Mount Tâmpa. The interior is closed until its EU-funded restoration, but the wall can be seen from the promenade.
A medieval hilltop fortress in the Burzenland, 20 km from Brașov, with roots in the age of the Teutonic Knights; its walls and towers were rebuilt in 2013–2017 and can be climbed.
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.
A fortified manor house in Glogova (Gorj), with a massive 17th-century cellar and an upper floor with a wooden veranda built after 1764, in the middle of a park beside St Nicholas church.
The oldest kula of the Măldărești museum complex, a boyar tower from the 16th century completed in the 18th, with arcaded porches and an upper floor laid out as an Oltenian minor boyar's court.
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 13th-century Romanesque hall church with an eight-storey keep above the old choir, two rings of walls and fragments of medieval wall paintings, a few kilometres from Rupea.
A Saxon Gothic church of the 14th–15th centuries, with a defensive tower under a hipped roof, a complete enclosure wall, a round bastion from 1515 and medieval frescoes in the choir.
A small Roman earth fort on the summit of Măgulici hill, at 492 m, with its rampart and ditch still visible and a view towards Alba Iulia, ancient Apulum, about 10 km away.
The Late Baroque Reformed church of Ighiu, set within the remains of a medieval enclosure whose gate tower now forms part of a house; the grave of the scholar Péter Bod lies in the churchyard.
