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A small convent in the Old Town with a Brâncoveanu-style church from 1724, façades painted with saints in medallions, an arcaded courtyard and a lapidary of stones from vanished Bucharest churches.
The Baroque Franciscan church of Șumuleu Ciuc (Csíksomlyó) holds a 16th-century statue of the Virgin Mary and is the goal of Romania's largest Catholic pilgrimage, at Pentecost.
A convent in Suceava's Burdujeni district, founded in 1597 by the postelnic Teodor Movilă: a trefoil church with blind arcading, a gatehouse bell tower and an enclosure wall.
The oldest monastery in Wallachia, founded by St Nicodemus in the 14th century on a rocky spur next to a waterfall; Romania's National Bank gold was hidden here from 1944 to 1947.
Vasile Lupu's foundation of 1639 in the centre of Iași, its facades covered in lace-like stone carving; the tombs of Cuza and Cantemir are here.
The largest convent in Romania, home to more than 400 nuns, founded in 1785 in a clearing at the foot of the mountains, where the poet Veronica Micle is also buried.
