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The ruins of a medieval royal fortress on a hill above the Crișul Repede, with a surviving round tower and walls consolidated in 2018–2020, a short distance from the Roman fort of Resculum.
A bastioned fortress on Citadel Hill, north of the old town, built to stop enemies firing on Brașov from the heights; the interior is closed for works, but the walls and the view can be enjoyed from the paths on the hill.
The ruins of the Greek city from which Mangalia grew: the circuit wall with its towers and the Syrian-type basilica on the clifftop promenade, steps from the beach, plus the town's archaeology museum.
The ruins of a Dacian fortress on a wooded hill above the Sebeș valley: limestone walls in the murus dacicus technique and the base of a tower house, the only Dacian UNESCO site in Alba County.
A Roman fortress on the bank of the Danube, built under Trajan in the early 2nd century and inhabited for almost a millennium, with massive walls and towers above the river.
A Gothic Saxon church from 1421, enclosed by walls, four defensive towers and a second ring of fortifications, in the middle of a village by the Olt with the Făgăraș Mountains behind it.
The ruined fortress of the Cândea knezes, its tower house perched on a rock at the mouth of the Râușor gorge below the Retezat, traditionally linked with Jules Verne's "The Carpathian Castle".
A small Roman fort with an unusual pentagonal plan, on a terrace above the Râul Negru at the edge of the village of Reci; its banks and ditches are clearly visible next to the DN11. Part of the UNESCO site of the Dacian limes.
A Dacian fortress on Cetățuia hill, at the gateway to the Orăștie Mountains: earth ramparts, a stone wall built in the Hellenistic manner, tower houses and temples, a UNESCO site.
A Romanesque church of the 13th century with a keep-like tower and an oval stone enclosure, preserving fragments of medieval frescoes among the oldest in Transylvania.
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 Gothic Lutheran church of the 15th century, 8 km from Brașov, enclosed in a fortress with a defensive wall, massive towers and floral painting from 1902 on its interior walls.
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 ruins of a Roman and early Byzantine fortress near Murighiol, a Danube fleet station and bishop's seat, where the crypt of the martyrs Epictetus and Astion was found.
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.
