Monasteries

A monastery perched on a headland right above the Danube, in the Danube Gorges, on the site of the old monastery demolished in 1967 for the Iron Gates hydroelectric dam.

A foundation of 1648–1649 by Matei Basarab and Lady Elina on the bank of the Argeș: a three-towered church with 19th-century frescoes, restored with EU funds and reconsecrated in 2016.

The ensemble on the site of the old princely court of Câmpulung, with the 1647 bell tower, the 1364 tombstone of Prince Nicolae Alexandru and Matei Basarab's Princely House.

A sandstone shelter in the Vorona forests where St Onufrie lived as a hermit from 1764 to 1789; a pilgrimage site ~1.5 km from Sihăstria Voronei Monastery.

A convent founded in 1813 near Bucharest, with a great church built by St Calinic of Cernica, nuns' houses with verandas, a museum collection and a cemetery with artists' graves.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built by Stephen the Great in 1487: his oldest surviving foundation, with the "Cavalcade of the Holy Cross" fresco; a UNESCO site near Suceava.

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 at the mouth of the Râmeț Gorge in the Trascău Mountains, with an old stone church whose murals go back to around 1300, and a new church dating from 1992.

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.

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 by Lake Saon with a white three-towered church built from 1909 and the old church of 1881, in the commune of Niculițel; a listed historic monument.

A fortress-like monastery in the Neamț mountains, built in 1602 by the high steward Nestor Ureche, with walls up to 3 m thick, a church with its original inscription and a treasury of old church objects.

A hermitage of monks hidden among the crags of the Neamț mountains, with a wooden church of 1813 and the cave where St Theodora of Sihla lived as a recluse.

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.