Monasteries

A foundation of Prince Matei Basarab, 20 km from Bucharest: a brick church built in 1642–1646, with original frescoes from 1649 in the narthex, preserved only here and at Arnota.

The Church of St Nicholas, built by Stephen the Great in 1496: the oldest church in Botoșani, of bare red brick, with a stone bell tower from the same period.

A convent in the Hațeg Country, with a stone church rebuilt in 1564 and the grave of St Arsenie of Prislop (Father Arsenie Boca), one of the largest pilgrimage sites in Romania.

Peter Rareș's 1530 foundation and his family's burial place, with the fresco-painted church of St Nicholas inside fortress-like walls; a UNESCO site near Dolhasca.

Petru Rareș's 1542 foundation, with the church of St Nicholas painted on the outside too and enclosed by stone walls with a tower; restored with PNRR funds and handed over in May 2026.

A small stone church built by Stephen the Great in 1496, twenty years after the Battle of Valea Albă, where the fallen Moldavian soldiers lie; today a convent.

The Monastery of St Anne in the Lăpuș Land, hidden in a beech and oak forest, where the monk and writer Nicolae Steinhardt lived and is buried, with a library of over 40,000 volumes.

A convent in Săpânța, built from 1997 in memory of the old Peri Monastery across the Tisza, with an oak church ~75 m high, regarded as the tallest wooden church.

The oldest monastery in the Bărăgan, founded by the Grand Postelnic Ianache Caragea and rebuilt by Matei Basarab, with a 17th-century brick enclosure wall and a bell tower you enter through.

A monastery of monks in the Neamț mountains, founded in 1655, home of the spiritual fathers Cleopa Ilie and Paisie Olaru, whose relics have been open for veneration since 2025.

The monastery built by the sword-bearer Mihail Cantacuzino in 1690–1695 that gave the town its name: the old church with Pârvu Mutu's frescoes, the great church rebuilt for Carol I and a museum holding the Bucharest Bible.

A fortified monastery raised by Alexandru Lăpușneanu in the 1550s, with a perimeter wall and towers, a princely necropolis of Moldavia and today a convent of nuns.

A princely monastery on an island in Lake Snagov, with the exposed-brick church raised by Neagoe Basarab in 1521, paintings from 1563 and the grave that tradition attributes to Vlad the Impaler.

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul, founded by Ștefan Tomșa II in 1612–1622, one of the tallest in northern Moldavia, surrounded by enclosure walls with towers.

A small cave in the woods near Ion Corvin, fitted out as a church, where tradition says the Apostle Andrew lived; a monastery has grown up around it and draws pilgrims on 30 November.