Fortresses and fortifications

The stone stronghold of the princes of Moldavia in Suceava, built by Peter Mușat and strengthened by Stephen the Great, with a bridge over the moat, walls over 10 m high and a display of medieval arms and treasure.

The ruins of the oldest city on Romanian soil, a Greek colony founded by Miletus in the 7th century BC on the shore of Lake Sinoe, with the site museum alongside.

A small white church on the hill above the village, grown from a 12th-century Romanesque chapel and ringed by walls, towers and grain galleries, in a Saxon village that has survived almost intact.

The only Székely and Unitarian church in the UNESCO fortified-church site: a Gothic church with 1419 frescoes of the legend of Saint Ladislaus, whose fortress villagers still use to store their bacon.

The Saxon church in a vineyard valley near Mediaș, with its choir turned into a defence tower, an almost intact oval wall and a wood-and-iron portcullis that has survived for centuries.

A Romanesque basilica from the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, left almost unaltered, on the rocky top of St Michael's Hill, ringed by a defensive wall and looking out to the Făgăraș Mountains.

The 13th-century gate tower linking the Grand Square and the Small Square, Sibiu's symbol, with an onion-shaped spire; closed for restoration since January 2026, for about two years.

An auxiliary Roman fort on the eastern limes of Dacia, in the Niraj valley, now a modernised archaeological park (Limesparc) with exhibition pavilions and a viewpoint.

A 14th-century Gothic church built by the noble Apafi family, with the largest ensemble of Gothic frescoes in Transylvania and a polyptych altarpiece that has stood in place for more than five centuries.

The only surviving medieval gate of Brașov's walled town, a white tower of 1559 with four corner turrets and the town's coat of arms; next to it, the neoclassical Șchei Gate of 1827–1828.

The Saxons' Gothic church in the centre of Sebeș, with a tall 14th-century choir and the largest winged altarpiece of any Lutheran church in Romania.

An 18th-century Austrian fortress on the hill above Cluj, of which walls, gate buildings and storehouses survive; today it is the city's favourite viewpoint, with a 26 m cross.

A square 15th-century watchtower perched on a rock outside Brașov's western walls, with a glass pyramid roof and a platform looking out over the old town and the Black Church.

A Gothic and Baroque church on a rocky hill in the Ciuc region, ringed by a defensive wall with a tower; inside is a Gothic font from the 15th century.

The largest auxiliary fort in eastern Dacia, on a terrace by the Olt west of the village of Hoghiz: earth banks and traces of walls in the fields, part of the UNESCO site of the Dacian limes.