# Monuments and historic sites — tourist attractions in Romania [Romania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/attractions) › [Categories](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/categories) > Archaeological sites, monuments and historic places. The historic monuments of Romania cover the whole history of the country, from the Dacian fortresses and the Greek colonies of Dobruja to Brâncuși's ensemble at Târgu Jiu and the memorials of the 20th century. The category brings together archaeological sites, commemorative monuments, statues and the landmark buildings of the cities, but also the churches and fortresses that are heritage monuments at the same time. Many are on the UNESCO list or the national list of historic monuments and can be visited freely, in the open air; others are run as museums. The Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains, with [Sarmizegetusa Regia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sarmizegetusa-regia) at their head, are the most important ancient sites; in Dobruja, [Histria Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-histria) is the oldest city on Romanian territory. The modern era left the [Endless Column](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/coloana-infinitului) and [the Gate of the Kiss](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/poarta-sarutului) at Târgu Jiu, the [Rock Sculpture of Decebalus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/chipul-lui-decebal) carved into the cliff at the Danube Gorges, and the [Sighet Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-sighet), in the former political prison. ## Tourist attractions 275 attractions - [Alba Carolina Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/alba-carolina-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Alba Iulia, AB · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 20 Romania's largest bastion fortress, a seven-pointed star built by the Habsburgs in 1715–1738 at Alba Iulia; baroque gates, cathedrals, the Union Hall and a changing of the guard, all with free access. - [Sighișoara Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sighisoara-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Sighișoara, MS · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 A Saxon-built, still-inhabited medieval walled town on a hill above the Târnava Mare, with guild towers and the famous Clock Tower; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. - [Voroneț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/voronet-monastery) — Monasteries · Voroneț, SV · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 The church founded by Stephen the Great in 1488, painted on the outside with the Last Judgment on a background of "Voroneț blue"; a UNESCO site near Gura Humorului. - [Merry Cemetery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/merry-cemetery) — Monuments and historic sites · Săpânța, MM · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 20 The cemetery in Săpânța with over 800 oak crosses painted blue, showing naive scenes from the lives of those buried there and witty epitaphs in verse; begun in 1935 by the craftsman Stan Ioan Pătraș. - [Sarmizegetusa Regia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sarmizegetusa-regia) — Fortresses and fortifications · Grădiștea de Munte, HD · 30 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 The capital of the Dacian kingdom, hidden in the beech forests of the Orăștie Mountains: the walls of Decebalus's fortress, the paved road and the sacred area with andesite and limestone sanctuaries, a UNESCO site. - [The Black Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/the-black-church) — Churches · Brașov, BV · 30 lei · 45 min · Top 20 Romania's largest Gothic church, built by the Saxons of Brașov between 1383 and 1477; inside are the 1839 Buchholz organ and a rare collection of Anatolian carpets. - [Endless Column](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/endless-column) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgu Jiu, GJ · Free · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 The 29.35 m column of brass-coated cast-iron modules raised by Constantin Brâncuși in 1938 in Târgu Jiu for the heroes of 1916: the eastern end of the “Heroes' Avenue” ensemble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. - [Constanța Casino](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/constanta-casino) — Monuments and historic sites · Constanța, CT · 53 lei · Top 20 The Art Nouveau building on the Constanța seafront, opened in 1910, left to decay after 1990 and reopened in 2025 after restoration, with exhibitions on its history and on the Black Sea. - [Coronation Cathedral](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/coronation-cathedral) — Churches · Alba Iulia, AB · Free · 45 min · Top 100 The Orthodox cathedral inside Alba Carolina Fortress, built in 1921–1922 for the coronation of Ferdinand and Marie as king and queen of Greater Romania, with a 58 m bell tower and royal portraits in fresco. - [Grand Square (Piața Mare)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/grand-square) — Monuments and historic sites · Sibiu, SB · Free · 45 min · Top 100 The main square of old Sibiu, about 140 by 90 metres, enclosed by merchants' houses with "eyes" in their roofs, by the Brukenthal Palace, the Jesuit church and the Council Tower. - [Romanian Athenaeum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/romanian-athenaeum) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 15 lei · 45 min · Top 100 The concert hall in the heart of Bucharest, built in 1886–1888 and paid for largely by public subscription: Ionic columns outside, a fresco over 70 m long telling the story of the Romanians inside. - [Sighet Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sighet-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Sighetu Marmației, MM · 25 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100 The former Sighet prison, where the political elite of interwar Romania died, turned by Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan into the first museum of communism in Eastern Europe; over 50 cells made into exhibition rooms. - [Council Square (Piața Sfatului)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/council-square) — Monuments and historic sites · Brașov, BV · Free · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 The main square of old Brașov, lined with merchants' houses and dominated by the Council House, the old town hall with its watchtower, now the County History Museum, with Tâmpa as a backdrop. - [Humor Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/humor-monastery) — Monasteries · Mănăstirea Humorului, SV · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100 The church built in 1530 by chancellor Toader Bubuiog under Petru Rareș, painted outside in shades of red, with an open porch and Vasile Lupu's tower; a UNESCO site. - [Curtea de Argeș Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/curtea-de-arges-monastery) — Monasteries · Curtea de Argeș, AG · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 Neagoe Basarab's foundation of 1515–1517, with the twisted towers and stone lacework of the legend of Master Manole, and Romania's royal necropolis, from Carol I to Michael I. - [Heroes' Cross on Caraiman Peak](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/heroes-cross-on-caraiman-peak) — Monuments and historic sites · Bușteni, PH · 10 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100 A 39 m steel cross raised in the 1920s on the edge of the Caraiman escarpment, at 2,291 m, in memory of the heroes of the First World War; it can be seen from all over Bușteni. - [Rock Sculpture of Decebalus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rock-sculpture-of-decebalus) — Monuments and historic sites · Eșelnița, MH · Free · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100 The face of the Dacian king Decebalus, carved between 1994 and 2004 into a 55 m rock at the mouth of the Mraconia, on the Romanian bank of the Danube: the tallest rock sculpture in Europe. - [Vaser Valley Forest Railway (Mocănița)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vaser-valley-forest-railway) — Monuments and historic sites · Vișeu de Sus, MM · 136 lei · 5½ – 6 hours · Top 100 The last working forest railway in the Carpathians: a steam-hauled train climbs 21.6 km up the Vaser valley, through the Maramureș Mountains Nature Park, to Paltin station. - [Histria Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/histria-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Istria, CT · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100 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. - [Moldovița Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/moldovita-monastery) — Monasteries · Vatra Moldoviței, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100 Founded by Petru Rareș in 1532, with a church painted on the outside in shades of yellow and blue and the famous Siege of Constantinople fresco; a UNESCO site in Bukovina. - [The Table of Silence](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/the-table-of-silence) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgu Jiu, GJ · Free · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100 Constantin Brâncuși's round stone table with 12 hourglass seats, in the park on the banks of the Jiu: the western end of the Heroes' Way ensemble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. - [Tropaeum Traiani – Adamclisi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tropaeum-traiani-adamclisi) — Monuments and historic sites · Adamclisi, CT · 32 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100 The triumphal monument Trajan raised in 109 for his victory over the Dacians, reconstructed in 1977, with the original metopes in the village museum and the ruins of the Roman city nearby. - [St Michael's Cathedral](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-michael-s-cathedral) — Churches · Alba Iulia, AB · Free · 45 min Romania's oldest and longest cathedral, Romanesque and Gothic, at the heart of the Alba Carolina Fortress; it holds the tomb of John Hunyadi and the first Renaissance chapel in Transylvania. - [The Gate of the Kiss](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/the-gate-of-the-kiss) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgu Jiu, GJ · Free · 20 min · UNESCO World Heritage The travertine gate carved by Constantin Brâncuși in 1937–1938 at the entrance to Târgu Jiu's Central Park, part of the “Heroes' Way” ensemble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. - [Haller Castle in Ogra](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/haller-castle-in-ogra) — Castles and palaces · Ogra, MS · 30 min A Late Baroque residence of the Haller family on the bank of the Mureș, beside the DN15; today a private hotel, restaurant and wine cellar, so it is best seen from outside or as a guest. - [Council Tower (Turnul Sfatului)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/council-tower) — Monuments and historic sites · Sibiu, SB · Free · 15 min 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. - [Roman Fort of Călugăreni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-calugareni) — Monuments and historic sites · Călugăreni, MS · 5 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Snagov Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/snagov-monastery) — Monasteries · Snagov, IF · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [St Nicholas Church in Densuș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-nicholas-church-in-densus) — Churches · Densuș, HD · Free · 45 min A small stone church in the Hațeg Country, built largely from Roman blocks brought from Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, with a tower over the nave, stone lions on the roof and paintings from 1443. - [Bethlen Castle in Criș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bethlen-castle-in-cris) — Castles and palaces · Criș, MS · ½ – 1 hours The most complete Renaissance residence left in Transylvania, seat of the Bethlen family: a tower with soldier reliefs, an arcaded loggia and bastioned walls, now under restoration. - [Catherine's Gate](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/catherine-s-gate) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · Free · 20 min 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. - [Great Synagogue](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/great-synagogue) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 30 min A synagogue built in 1845–1846 by Ashkenazi Jews who had come from Poland, with a neoclassical façade and a painted, gilded hall; it houses the permanent exhibition on the Holocaust in Romania. - [Cârța Cistercian Abbey](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/carta-cistercian-abbey) — Monasteries · Cârța, SB · ½ – 1 hours The ruins of the only surviving Cistercian abbey in Romania, built around 1200 in the Early Gothic style, with its choir now serving as an Evangelical church. - [Cetățuia Fortress (Cluj-Napoca)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatuia-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [Maria Radna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/maria-radna-monastery) — Monasteries · Lipova, AR · ½ – 1 hours The largest Baroque pilgrimage church in western Romania, its 67-metre towers rising above the Mureș, with a miracle-working icon and corridors covered in votive paintings. - [Old Town (Lipscani)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/old-town) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 1½ – 2 hours The pedestrian quarter between Calea Victoriei and Piața Unirii, with streets named after the old guilds, the ruins of the Princely Court, Bucharest's oldest church and covered arcades from the 19th century. - [St John the New Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-john-the-new-monastery) — Monasteries · Suceava, SV · UNESCO World Heritage The former metropolitan cathedral of Moldavia, built in 1514–1522 in the centre of Suceava and home to the relics of St John the New; its church of St George is a UNESCO site. - [Strada Sforii (Rope Street)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/strada-sforii) — Monuments and historic sites · Brașov, BV · Free · 10 min A passage 1.1–1.35 m wide in Brașov's old town, recorded in the 17th century and counted among the narrowest streets in Europe; closed for repairs since November 2025. - [Șumuleu Ciuc (Franciscan Monastery)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sumuleu-ciuc) — Monasteries · Miercurea Ciuc, HR · Free · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [Black Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/black-tower) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · 30 min 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. - [Evangelical Cathedral of Sibiu](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/evangelical-cathedral-of-sibiu) — Churches · Sibiu, SB · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours The Gothic church of the Sibiu Saxons, with a 73-metre tower you can climb, the 1914 Sauer organ, the 1445 Crucifixion fresco and the gravestones of the ferula. - [Hoghiz Roman Fort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/hoghiz-roman-fort) — Monuments and historic sites · Hoghiz, BV · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Mărășești Mausoleum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/marasesti-mausoleum) — Monuments and historic sites · Mărășești, VN · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours The First World War heroes' mausoleum, built between 1923 and 1938 on the 1917 battlefield, with 5,073 soldiers in its crypts and a museum of the battles. - [Metropolitan Cathedral of the Three Holy Hierarchs](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/metropolitan-cathedral-of-the-three-holy-hierarchs) — Churches · Timișoara, TM · Free · 30 min The Orthodox cathedral of the Banat, built between 1936 and 1946 in the Neo-Moldavian style, with a main tower of over 80 m, glazed-tile roofs and a museum of old church art in the basement. - [Roman Fort of Cigmău (Germisara)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-cigmau) — Monuments and historic sites · Cigmău, HD · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage An auxiliary Roman fort on Urieșilor Hill above the Mureș, near Geoagiu, with foundations, a headquarters building with an underground treasury unique in Dacia, and wide views over the valley. - [Roman Fort of Drobeta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-drobeta) — Monuments and historic sites · Drobeta-Turnu Severin, MH · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage The fort that guarded the northern end of Trajan's Bridge over the Danube: restored walls and foundations in the courtyard of the Iron Gates Region Museum in Drobeta-Turnu Severin. - [Roman Fort of Tirighina-Barboși](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-tirighina-barbosi) — Monuments and historic sites · Galați, GL · 45 min A Roman fort on the Tirighina promontory where the Siret meets the Danube, in the Barboși district of Galați, with a site museum built inside the grounds and remains almost 1,900 years old. - [Târgoviște Princely Court (Curtea Domnească din Târgoviște)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/targoviste-princely-court) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgoviște, DB · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The residence of the rulers of Wallachia for almost three centuries, with the Chindia Tower, the ruins of the princely palace and the Great Princely Church, home to the largest votive painting of rulers in the country. - [Union Square (Piața Unirii)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/union-square) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · Free · ½ – 1 hours Timișoara's oldest square, about 150 by 110 metres, laid out in the Baroque style around the Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Serbian Cathedral and the Plague Column, among colourful houses from the 18th to the 20th centuries. - [White Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/white-tower) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · Free · 45 min A 15th-century horseshoe-shaped defence tower perched on a rock above the Graft, with one of the best views over Brașov's old town. - [Ascension Cathedral (Roman Catholic Cathedral)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ascension-cathedral) — Churches · Satu Mare, SM · Free · 30 min The Cathedral of the Ascension, rebuilt in neoclassical style between 1830 and 1837: a portico of six Corinthian columns and two towers dominate Piața Libertății, and inside lies the tomb of a martyr bishop. - [Batiștei Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/batistei-church) — Churches · București · 20 min A masonry church built in 1763–1764, with an open porch, painted medallions on its façades and an octagonal tower, tucked between apartment blocks in the University area, next to the National Theatre. - [Brâncoveanu Monastery of Sâmbăta de Sus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brancoveanu-monastery-of-sambata-de-sus) — Monasteries · Sâmbăta de Sus, BV · 1 – 1½ hours Orthodox monastery founded by Constantin Brâncoveanu below the Făgăraș Mountains: the church rebuilt in 1926–1946 on its old foundations, an icon museum and a new Brâncovenesc-style precinct. - [Bucur Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bucur-church) — Churches · București · 15 min A small white church of the 17th–18th centuries, dedicated to Saints Athanasius and Cyril, on a little hill in Strada Radu Vodă and tied to the legend of the shepherd Bucur, said to have founded Bucharest. - [Church of St Demetrius and St Nestor, Mânăstirea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/church-of-st-demetrius-and-st-nestor-manastirea) — Churches · Mânăstirea, CL · Free · 30 min A 1648 foundation of Matei Basarab and Lady Elina, a historic monument of national importance, in the village named after an old monastery: a brick church with an octagonal tower and interior painting. - [Costești-Blidaru Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/costesti-blidaru-dacian-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Costești, HD · 5 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage One of the strongest Dacian fortresses in the Orăștie Mountains: murus dacicus walls, six towers and a dog-leg entrance, on a wooded hill above Costești, a UNESCO site. - [Cucuteni Archaeological Site Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cucuteni-archaeological-site-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Cucuteni, IS · 20 lei · 45 min A stone rotunda built in 1982–1984 over a Geto-Dacian princely burial mound from the 4th century BC, on Gosan Hill, next to the site that gave the Cucuteni culture its name. - [Feldioara Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/feldioara-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Feldioara, BV · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours A medieval hilltop fortress in the Burzenland, 20 km from Brașov, with roots in the age of the Teutonic Knights; its walls and towers were rebuilt in 2013–2017 and can be climbed. - [Graft Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/graft-bastion) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · 15 min A rectangular bastion built in 1515–1521 by the saddlers' guild as a bridge over the Graft canal, on the north-west side of Brașov's walled town. The interior is closed, but the path runs beneath its arch. - [I. L. Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/i-l-caragiale-national-theatre-bucharest) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 25 lei · 2 – 2½ hours The building on Piața Universității, opened in 1973 and rehabilitated in 2014, with a foyer with a spiral staircase and a main hall of 940 seats; seen at performances and on the guided tours backstage. - [Pharmacy Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pharmacy-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 44 lei · ½ – 1 hours A department of the National Museum of Transylvanian History, in Hintz House on Union Square, in the oldest pharmacy in Cluj: the dispensary with 18th-century decoration, the laboratory and old medical equipment. - [Piatra Roșie Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/piatra-rosie-dacian-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Luncani, HD · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A Dacian fortress on top of a rocky hill above Luncani, with an ancient paved road of stone steps and tower ruins hidden in the forest; a UNESCO site, far from the crowds. - [Radu Vodă Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/radu-voda-monastery) — Monasteries · București · 30 min A 16th-century monastery on a hill in central Bucharest, with the brick church of the Holy Trinity modelled on Curtea de Argeș, a bell tower and the relics of Saint Nectarios. - [Roman Fort of Arutela](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-arutela) — Monuments and historic sites · Călimănești, VL · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage A Roman fort from AD 138 on the left bank of the Olt at Bivolari, next to Cozia Monastery, with a reconstructed praetorian gate and a component of the UNESCO site "Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia". - [St Joseph's Cathedral](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-joseph-s-cathedral) — Churches · București · 30 min A red-brick basilica in the Romanesque style with Gothic touches, built between 1875 and 1883 to plans by Friedrich von Schmidt; the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest. - [St Nicholas Church in Făgăraș (Brâncoveanu Church)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-nicholas-church-in-fagaras) — Churches · Făgăraș, BV · Free · 30 min The oldest church in Făgăraș, built in 1697–1698 on the orders of Constantin Brâncoveanu, with an open porch, carved stone window frames, 18th-century frescoes and an original iconostasis. - [Sulina](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sulina) — Deltas · Sulina, TL · 5 lei/day · 3½ – 4 hours Romania's easternmost town, at the mouth of the Sulina arm, with no road to the rest of the country: a port with an international past, the Old Lighthouse, the European Commission of the Danube palace and the maritime cemetery. - [Tailors' Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tailors-bastion) — Fortresses and fortifications · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 30 min A 15th-century defensive tower of Cluj's old citadel, rebuilt in 1627–1629 under Gabriel Bethlen; today an urban culture centre with exhibitions, a conference hall and a café. - [The Guild Towers on Strada Cetății](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/the-guild-towers-on-strada-cetatii) — Fortresses and fortifications · Sibiu, SB · 2 lei · 30 min The best-preserved stretch of Sibiu's third ring of fortifications: a wall with a covered walkway and three guild towers, the Carpenters', Potters' and Arquebusiers' Towers; two can be visited. - [Traian Square (Piața Traian)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/traian-square) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · Free · 30 min The central square of Fabric, Timișoara's historic district, laid out in the 1740s as a smaller replica of Union Square, with a Baroque Serbian church, an obelisk from 1774 and palaces from around 1900. - [Zlătari Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/zlatari-church) — Churches · București · 20 min An Orthodox church on Calea Victoriei, between Lipscani and Stavropoleos, rebuilt from 1850 on the site of a place of worship more than three centuries old, with paintings by Gheorghe Tattarescu and the relics of Saint Cyprian. - [Almașu Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/almasu-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Almașu, SJ · ½ – 1 hours The ruins of a 13th-century medieval fortress on a wooded hill near Almașu in Sălaj; only a tower about 20 m high survives. - [Angustia Roman Fort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/angustia-roman-fort) — Monuments and historic sites · Brețcu, CV · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage The Roman fort at Brețcu, which guarded the entrance from the Oituz Pass into Roman Dacia, with the earth banks of its enclosure still clearly visible in the fields; part of the UNESCO site of the Dacian limes. - [Arch of Triumph](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arch-of-triumph) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 15 lei · 45 min The 27 m interwar monument at the end of Șoseaua Kiseleff, built in memory of the Great Union, with 292 steps up to a terrace overlooking northern Bucharest. - [Bálványos Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/balvanyos-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Turia, CV · 2½ – 3 hours The ruins of a medieval fortress on Cetății Hill, above 1,000 m, over the spa resort of Băile Bálványos: stone walls and a surviving tower, an hour's climb through the forest. - [Bánffy Castle in Sâncrai](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/banffy-castle-in-sancrai) — Castles and palaces · Sâncrai, AB · ½ – 1 hours An eclectic manor on a hill near Aiud, with an octagonal tower and a Baroque gable, restored by Alba County Council and now a cultural centre, open to visitors during events. - [Bârsana Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/barsana-wooden-church) — Churches · Bârsana, MM · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage Bârsana's old wooden church, dating from 1711, stands on Jbâr Hill in an orchard full of crosses; inside is Toader Hodor's Baroque painting of 1806. A UNESCO site. - [Bat Cave at Moieciu](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bat-cave-at-moieciu) — Caves · Peștera, BV · 45 min A natural cave 162 m long in the village of Peștera, Moieciu commune: a natural monument with bat colonies and traces of Palaeolithic occupation, a few minutes' walk from the village. - [Bethlen András Castle in Beclean](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bethlen-andras-castle-in-beclean) — Castles and palaces · Beclean, BN · 15 min A Baroque manor house of the second half of the 18th century in the centre of Beclean, with a vaulted gate and a coat of arms dated 1768; today it houses the Agricultural Technological High School. - [Carsium Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/carsium-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Hârșova, CT · 14 lei · ½ – 1 hours The ruins of the fortress at Hârșova, on the rock above the Danube: a Roman fort of Trajan, rebuilt by the Byzantines and held by the Ottomans until 1829, restored and reopened in 2025. - [Church on the Hill and Covered Staircase in Sighișoara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/church-on-the-hill-and-covered-staircase-in-sighisoara) — Churches · Sighișoara, MS · 15 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The Gothic church of the Saxons on School Hill, with 15th-century frescoes, the only crypt in Transylvania and altars rescued from nearby villages, at the top of the covered wooden staircase of 1642. - [Colțești Fortress (Trascău Fortress)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/coltesti-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Colțești, AB · 1 – 1½ hours A 13th-century medieval ruin on a rocky spur above the village of Colțești, with its walls and two towers consolidated in 2026 and views towards Piatra Secuiului. - [Cumidava Roman Fort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cumidava-roman-fort) — Monuments and historic sites · Râșnov, BV · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage The auxiliary fort that guarded the way out of the Bran Pass into the Bârsa Land, north-west of Râșnov: a square of earth banks in the middle of the fields, part of the UNESCO site of the Dacian limes. - [Dăbâca Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dabaca-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Dăbâca, CJ · 45 min The former royal fortress and seat of Dăbâca County: earthen ramparts on a hill by the village and a stone wall of ~2 m, rebuilt in the 1960s on the line of the medieval one. - [Domnița Bălașa Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/domnita-balasa-church) — Churches · București · 30 min A church in central Bucharest, built in 1881–1885 on the site of three earlier churches, with exposed-brick façades, rich interior painting and the tomb of Domnița Bălașa, daughter of Constantin Brâncoveanu. - [Enisala Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/enisala-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Enisala, TL · 20 lei The ruins of a 14th-century fortress, probably built by the Genoese on a limestone hill above lakes Razim and Babadag, with one of the widest views in Dobruja. - [Fabric Synagogue](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/fabric-synagogue) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · Free · 10 min An eclectic exposed-brick synagogue with a central dome and a rose window on its façade, designed by Lipót Baumhorn and inaugurated in 1899; today a monument awaiting restoration. - [Firemen's Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/firemen-s-tower) — Fortresses and fortifications · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · Free · 45 min A medieval tower on Cluj's second ring of walls, completed in 1574 and used as a fire lookout until 1936; renovated in 2023, it has a 360° panoramic terrace and exhibitions on the inner staircase. - [Fort 13 Jilava](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/fort-13-jilava) — Museums and memorial houses · Jilava, IF · ½ – 1 hours A fort in Bucharest's defensive ring turned political prison: the 1940 massacre, the 1946 executions and thousands of prisoners of the communist regime; on the UNESCO Tentative List since 2024. - [Giurgiu Clock Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/giurgiu-clock-tower) — Monuments and historic sites · Giurgiu, GR · Free · 15 min An 18th-century Ottoman watchtower, 22 m high and slightly leaning, in the middle of Piața Unirii: the symbol of Giurgiu and of the county's coat of arms. - [Heldenburg Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/heldenburg-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Crizbav, BV · ½ – 1 hours The ruins of a medieval stone tower on a rock in the Perșani Mountains, west of Crizbav, with views over the whole Burzenland; first mentioned in writing in 1335. - [History Museum – Altemberger House (Casa Altemberger)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/history-museum-altemberger-house) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 36 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The history department of the Brukenthal National Museum, in a civil Gothic complex of the 15th–16th centuries, Sibiu's former town hall: lapidary, arms and armour, treasury and guild objects. - [Huniade Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/huniade-castle) — Castles and palaces · Timișoara, TM · 20 min The oldest building in Timișoara, a royal residence in the Middle Ages and the historic home of the Banat Museum; closed for restoration and visible from the outside only. - [Macca-Villacrosse Passage](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/macca-villacrosse-passage) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 20 min A fork-shaped shopping arcade from 1891, roofed in yellow glass, with a rotunda under a coloured-glass dome and stucco façades, between Calea Victoriei and Strada Eugeniu Carada. - [Manuc's Inn](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manuc-s-inn) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 45 min An inn from 1808, built by the merchant and diplomat Manuc Bei beside the Old Court: a listed building with an inner courtyard and wooden balconies, where the 1812 Russo-Turkish peace talks took place. - [Monastery Church, Sighișoara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/monastery-church-sighisoara) — Churches · Sighișoara, MS · 15 lei · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage The Gothic church of the former Dominican monastery, beside the Clock Tower, now the Saxons' Lutheran church, with a Baroque altar, a Rieger organ and dozens of old Oriental carpets. - [Museum of National History and Archaeology, Constanța](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/museum-of-national-history-and-archaeology-constanta) — Museums and memorial houses · Constanța, CT · 25 lei · ½ – 1 hours The museum that holds the Tomis Sculpture Hoard, with the Glykon serpent, in the former Town Hall on Piața Ovidiu, closed for restoration; next door you can visit the Roman Mosaic Edifice. - [Neolog Synagogue (Beit Israel)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neolog-synagogue) — Monuments and historic sites · Brașov, BV · 20 lei · 30 min A synagogue of 1899–1901 in the Neo-Gothic style with Moorish touches, its red-brick façade banded in white, in a courtyard in the old centre; today Beit Israel, a working place of worship. - [Noviodunum Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/noviodunum-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Isaccea, TL · 45 min The ruins of the Roman and Byzantine fortress near Isaccea, main base of the Danube fleet Classis Flavia Moesica, with stone-and-brick walls uncovered on the banks of the Danube. - [Pitești Prison Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pitesti-prison-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Pitești, AG · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The former Pitești prison, where in 1949–1951 students held as political prisoners were subjected to “re-education” through torture, now a private memorial museum; on the UNESCO Tentative List since 2024. - [Potaissa Legionary Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/potaissa-legionary-fortress) — Monuments and historic sites · Turda, CJ · 21 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The fortress of the Fifth Legion Macedonica on Dealul Cetății in Turda, with its restored headquarters building and baths, open to the public since 2026 and part of the UNESCO site of the Dacian frontier. - [Pünkösti Manor House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/punkosti-manor-house) — Castles and palaces · Ozun, CV · 20 min A noble manor house in the centre of Ozun village, with a tall double mansard roof, linked to Major Pünkösti Gergely, who announced the end of serfdom in the Three Seats in 1848. - [Reformed Church on Ulița Lupilor](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/reformed-church-on-ulita-lupilor) — Churches · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 30 min The Gothic hall church begun in 1486 for the Franciscans, with a 17th-century star vault, the 1646 pulpit, the 1913 Angster organ and the Apafi tombs. - [Roman Catholic Dome of St George](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-catholic-dome-of-st-george) — Churches · Timișoara, TM · 30 min The Baroque cathedral of the Catholic bishopric of Timișoara, built between 1736 and 1774 on Union Square; restored with EU funds and reopened in April 2023, with the bishops' crypt under the altar. - [Roman Fort of Ilișua (Arcobadara)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-ilisua) — Monuments and historic sites · Ilișua, BN · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage A Roman fort on the Măgura plateau, south-east of Ilișua village, built on the northern frontier of Dacia Porolissensis; at ground level the ruins of the baths from the civil settlement are what you mainly see. - [Roșia Montană Gold Mining Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rosia-montana-gold-mining-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Roșia Montană, AB · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A mining museum where 157 steps lead down to 170 m of original Roman galleries of Alburnus Maior, part of the Roșia Montană UNESCO site, plus stamp mills and a Roman lapidarium. - [Saint Spyridon the New Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/saint-spyridon-the-new-church) — Churches · București · 30 min A church built in 1852–1858 on Calea Șerban Vodă, near Metropolitan Hill, with two towers on the façade and a central dome, paintings by Gheorghe Tattarescu, stained glass made in Vienna and a fragment of the relics of Saint Spyridon. - [Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension of the Lord](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/serbian-orthodox-cathedral-of-the-ascension-of-the-lord) — Churches · Timișoara, TM · Free · 30 min The Baroque church of the Serbian Orthodox Bishopric on Union Square, built between 1744 and 1748, with two clock towers and a carved and gilded wooden iconostasis. - [Sighișoara Clock Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sighisoara-clock-tower) — Monuments and historic sites · Sighișoara, MS · 50 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The 64-metre main gate tower of Sighișoara Citadel, with a colourful tiled Baroque roof, a clock with wooden figures and the History Museum, climbed all the way to the top gallery. - [Sion Neolog Synagogue](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sion-neolog-synagogue) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · 15 lei · 30 min A synagogue of 1877–1878 on the bank of the Crișul Repede, with a broad dome and a Moorish-style painted interior; restored and reopened in 2015, it is now a cultural venue. - [Small Square (Piața Mică) and Bridge of Lies](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/small-square-and-bridge-of-lies) — Monuments and historic sites · Sibiu, SB · Free · 30 min The second square of old Sibiu, with guild houses arcaded at street level, the Arts House and the Bridge of Lies, the 1859 cast-iron footbridge over Ocnei street. - [St Bartholomew's Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-bartholomew-s-church) — Churches · Brașov, BV · 30 min A 13th-century Saxon church in the Bartolomeu district, surrounded by a medieval enclosure wall, with a Saxon cemetery and a sundial on its south wall. - [St Nicholas Church in Șchei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-nicholas-church-in-schei) — Churches · Brașov, BV · 45 min The Orthodox church of the Romanians of Șcheii Brașovului, built from 1495 on the site of a wooden one, with Gothic-Baroque towers, painted façades and Nicolae Titulescu's grave in the churchyard. - [Tailors' Tower (Students' Tower)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tailors-tower) — Fortresses and fortifications · Sebeș, AB · 20 min A defensive tower in Sebeș's town fortifications, built by the tailors' guild at the end of the 14th century and tied to the story of the student who survived the Ottoman siege of 1438. - [Telephone Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/telephone-palace) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 15 min An Art Deco tower of about 52 m on Calea Victoriei, built in 1931–1933 on a steel frame to plans by Louis Seabury Weeks; for a long time the tallest building in Bucharest. - [Troesmis Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/troesmis-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Turcoaia, TL · Free · ½ – 1 hours The ruins of ancient Troesmis near Turcoaia: the base of the Fifth Legion Macedonica, then two Late Roman fortresses on the high bank of the Danube. An undeveloped site with free access. - [Tulcea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tulcea) — Deltas · Tulcea, TL · Free · 2½ – 3 hours The Danube port town where the ships to the Danube Delta leave from: the waterfront with the River Station, the Independence Monument on the hill, the Azizie Mosque and the aquarium. - [Ulmetum Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ulmetum-fortress) — Monuments and historic sites · Pantelimon, CT · 45 min A Roman-Byzantine fortress of the 4th–6th centuries in central Dobruja, with 13 towers, an early Christian basilica and ruins uncovered by Vasile Pârvan in 1911–1914. - [Viforâta Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/viforata-monastery) — Monasteries · Aninoasa, DB · 45 min A convent first recorded in 1530, founded by Vlad the Drowned, a few kilometres from Târgoviște: a church with a porch painted with scenes from the Apocalypse, Brâncoveanu votive portraits and cells with wooden verandas. - [Amzei Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/amzei-church) — Churches · București · 20 min An eclectic Orthodox church of 1898–1901 near Amzei Square, with three towers, façades of alternating brick and plaster, and the interior painting of the Italian artist Umberto Marchetti. - [Apulum – the Roman remains of Alba Iulia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/apulum-the-roman-remains-of-alba-iulia) — Monuments and historic sites · Alba Iulia, AB · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage The fortress of the 13th Legion Gemina beneath the citadel of Alba Iulia: the partly rebuilt south gate, the legion's headquarters preserved in the Principia Museum and a stretch of Roman road. - [Arbore Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arbore-church) — Churches · Arbore, SV · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage The church built in 1502 by Hetman Luca Arbore, with no tower and exterior frescoes from 1541 dominated by green; a UNESCO site, today the church of Arbore Monastery. - [Bănița Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/banita-dacian-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Bănița, HD · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The ruins of a Dacian fortress on the rocky summit of Piatra Cetății, above the DN66, which guarded the southern approach to Sarmizegetusa Regia; a UNESCO site, reached only on foot by a steep climb. - [Banloc Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/banloc-castle) — Castles and palaces · Banloc, TM · 20 min A manor of the Karátsonyi family from the 18th century, bought in 1935 by Princess Elisabeth; today a decayed building under stabilisation works, in a park of over 8 hectares. - [Bellu Cemetery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bellu-cemetery) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 1 – 1½ hours Bucharest's largest cemetery, covering 28 hectares, with the first burials in 1859: a necropolis and open-air museum with a monumental gate, a domed chapel and listed funerary monuments. - [Bethlen-Haller Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bethlen-haller-castle) — Castles and palaces · Cetatea de Baltă, AB · 39 lei · ½ – 1 hours A Renaissance castle with four round towers, built by the Bethlen family on a hill above the Târnava Mică; today it is the emblem of Jidvei wines and is visited on hourly guided tours. - [Bologa Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bologa-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Bologa, CJ · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [Brașov Fortress (Cetățuia)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brasov-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · Free · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [Callatis Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/callatis-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Mangalia, CT · 10 lei 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. - [Căpâlna Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/capalna-dacian-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Căpâlna, AB · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Capidava Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/capidava-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Capidava, CT · 14 lei · 1 – 1¼ hours 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. - [Carol I Central University Library](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/carol-i-central-university-library) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 50 lei · ½ – 1 hours The former Carol I University Foundation, built in 1891–1895 to plans by Paul Gottereau on Revolution Square: a Beaux-Arts façade with a pediment and domes, an Aula that survived the 1989 fire, and visits by guided tour only. - [Carol I Mosque](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/carol-i-mosque) — Churches · Constanța, CT · 45 min Constanța's Grand Mosque, built between 1910 and 1913 at the wish of King Carol I, with a 47 m minaret you climb by 140 steps and a 144 m² Hereke carpet in the prayer hall. - [Carol I Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/carol-i-park) — Parks and gardens · București · Free · 1 – 1½ hours A historic park laid out in 1900–1906 on Filaret Hill for the General Romanian Exhibition, with a lake, a monumental central avenue, the Zodiac Fountain and the Heroes of the Nation Memorial on the upper plateau. - [CEC Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cec-palace) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 15 min The seat of the Savings and Consignment Bank on Calea Victoriei, built in 1897–1900 to plans by the French architect Paul Gottereau: a monumental façade, corner cupolas and a central dome of glass and metal. - [Cetate Synagogue](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetate-synagogue) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · 20 min An eclectic synagogue with Moorish touches, built in 1863–1865 to plans by the Viennese architect Carl Schumann, with two domed towers and a two-colour brick façade; reopened in 2022. - [Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/church-of-the-holy-apostles-peter-and-paul) — Churches · Târgu Jiu, GJ · 20 min · UNESCO World Heritage The three-towered Orthodox church built in 1927–1937 on Heroes' Avenue in Târgu Jiu, halfway along the axis between the Gate of the Kiss and the Endless Column, and part of the UNESCO-listed Brâncuși ensemble. - [Cluj-Napoca National Theatre](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cluj-napoca-national-theatre) — Monuments and historic sites · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 2 – 2½ hours The neo-Baroque building of 1906, designed by the Viennese firm Fellner & Helmer, home to the “Lucian Blaga” National Theatre and the Romanian National Opera; seen at performances and on the Opera's guided tours. - [Colț Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/colt-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Râu de Mori, HD · Free · 1 – 1½ hours 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". - [Comolău Roman Fort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/comolau-roman-fort) — Monuments and historic sites · Reci, CV · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Constanța](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/constanta) — Seaside · Constanța, CT · Free · 5½ – 6 hours The port city of the coast, with an old town on the site of ancient Tomis: Ovid Square, the Casino seafront, Tomis Port, museums, the city beaches and, to the north, Mamaia. - [Constanța Peninsula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/constanta-peninsula) — Monuments and historic sites · Constanța, CT · Free · 2½ – 3 hours Constanța's old town, on the site of ancient Tomis: Ovid Square, the Roman mosaic, the mosque and its minaret, the cathedral, the Genoese Lighthouse and the casino seafront, all a few steps apart. - [Costești-Cetățuie Dacian Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/costesti-cetatuie-dacian-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Costești, HD · 10 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Dealu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dealu-monastery) — Monasteries · Aninoasa, DB · ½ – 1 hours Radu the Great's foundation on the hill north of Târgoviște, built in 1499–1501: a church clad in dressed stone and a princely necropolis where the head of Michael the Brave is kept. - [Dicasterial Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dicasterial-palace) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · Free · 15 min A monumental Neo-Renaissance building in the Cetate district, raised in 1855–1860 for the administration of the Banat; today it houses Timișoara's courts and can be seen from the outside only. - [Drapers' Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/drapers-bastion) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · 15 min 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. - [First Romanian School](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/first-romanian-school) — Museums and memorial houses · Brașov, BV · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours The old school in the courtyard of St Nicholas' Church in Șcheii Brașovului, now a museum: a classroom with wooden benches, a replica of Coresi's printing press and Romanian books five centuries old. - [Foișorul de Foc (Fire Watchtower)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/foisorul-de-foc) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 10 lei · 40 min The 42 m round tower built in 1890–1892 as a fire-watch lookout, today the National Firefighters' Museum, telling the story of firefighting in Romania. - [Franciscan Church, Cluj-Napoca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/franciscan-church-cluj-napoca) — Churches · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 30 min The Baroque church on Piața Muzeului, dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows, with a 52 m tower, a revolving high altar and 18th-century chapels, built on the site of a church of 1260. - [Gabroveni Inn](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gabroveni-inn) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 30 min An inn in the Old Town on Strada Lipscani, built in the early 19th century and restored in 2009–2014: today the seat of ARCUB, with a cobbled passage between Lipscani and Strada Gabroveni. - [Glogoveanu Kula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/glogoveanu-kula) — Fortresses and fortifications · Glogova, GJ · 45 min 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. - [Golia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/golia-monastery) — Monasteries · Iași, IS · ½ – 1 hours A fortified monastery in the centre of Iași, with Vasile Lupu's church, unique in Moldavia for its classical facades and seven towers, and a tower almost 30 m high with views over the city. - [Halmyris Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/halmyris-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Murighiol, TL · 12 lei · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [Ighiu Earth Fort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ighiu-earth-fort) — Monuments and historic sites · Ighiu, AB · Free · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A small Roman earth fort on the summit of Măgulici hill, at 492 m, with its rampart and ditch still visible and a view towards Alba Iulia, ancient Apulum, about 10 km away. - [Kemény–Bánffy Castle in Luncani](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/kemeny-banffy-castle-in-luncani) — Castles and palaces · Luncani, CJ · 20 min Late Baroque noble residence on the bank of the Arieș, with an L-shaped plan and polygonal corner towers, now a roofless ruin in private ownership with no organised visits. - [National Museum of Romanian History](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-romanian-history) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The museum in the Post Office Palace on Calea Victoriei shows the Historical Treasury, with the royal crowns and Getic gold, the Lapidarium and a full-size copy of Trajan's Column. - [Neolog Synagogue (Memorial Temple of the Deportees)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neolog-synagogue-cluj) — Monuments and historic sites · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 20 min A Moorish Revival synagogue of 1886–1887, with four towers and a façade in yellow and ochre bands facing Strada Horea; today the Memorial Temple of the Deported Jews of Cluj. - [New St George Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/new-st-george-church) — Churches · București · 30 min The last church founded by Constantin Brâncoveanu in Bucharest, built in 1705–1707 at the edge of the Old Town, with a porch on twelve stone columns, the founder's crypt and Kilometre Zero in front. - [Nistor Kula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/nistor-kula) — Fortresses and fortifications · Cerneți, MH · 30 min A fortified manor house in Cerneți, near Drobeta Turnu Severin, built around 1812 and rebuilt after 1821 by the pandur captain Nistor, with a veranda on carved posts. - [Oradea City Hall Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/oradea-city-hall-palace) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · 15 lei · 30 min An eclectic palace of 1902–1903 on Piața Unirii, home to the city hall, with a tower of almost 50 m: its clock plays Iancu's March, and the top gives a view over the rooftops of the centre. - [Palace of Justice](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palace-of-justice) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 20 min The seat of the Bucharest Court of Appeal on the bank of the Dâmbovița, built in 1890–1895 to plans by Albert Ballu and Ion Mincu: a stone façade with allegorical statues and a high French-style roof. - [Plumbuita Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plumbuita-monastery) — Monasteries · București · 45 min A 16th–17th-century monastery in Colentina, with a church rebuilt by Matei Basarab in 1647, a gatehouse bell tower and an arcaded princely house. - [Porolissum Archaeological Complex](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/porolissum-archaeological-complex) — Monuments and historic sites · Moigrad-Porolissum, SJ · 11 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The northernmost bastion of Roman Dacia: the fort with its reconstructed gates, the paved imperial road, the civil town and the amphitheatre, on the hills at Moigrad in Sălaj. - [Probota Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/probota-monastery) — Monasteries · Probota, SV · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Râmnicu Sărat Prison Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ramnicu-sarat-prison-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Râmnicu Sărat, BZ · 20 min The former communist prison known as the 'prison of silence', where Ion Mihalache, Corneliu Coposu and other political prisoners were held alone in their cells; on UNESCO's Tentative List, currently closed to visitors. - [Roman Baths of Germisara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-baths-of-germisara) — Monuments and historic sites · Geoagiu-Băi, HD · Free · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage The Roman baths in the centre of the spa resort of Geoagiu-Băi: a sacred pool cut into a travertine mound, with channels, steps and rock-cut rooms, part of the Dacian Limes UNESCO site. - [Roman Buridava (Stolniceni)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-buridava) — Monuments and historic sites · Râmnicu Vâlcea, VL · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage The ruins of the Roman baths at Stolniceni, in the south of Râmnicu Vâlcea, between the Olt and the DN64: the remains of the major military centre of Buridava, a component of the UNESCO site "Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia". - [Roman Catholic Basilica of Oradea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-catholic-basilica-of-oradea) — Churches · Oradea, BH · Free · 30 min The Cathedral of the Assumption, built between 1752 and 1780: the largest Baroque church in Romania, with an organ given by Maria Theresa and an interior of marble, frescoes and gilding. - [Roman Fort at Bologa (Resculum)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-at-bologa) — Monuments and historic sites · Bologa, CJ · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage The auxiliary fort of Resculum, the westernmost Roman fortification on the frontier of Dacia Porolissensis, on the bank of the Crișul Repede, beside the medieval fortress of Bologa. - [Roman Fort at Buciumi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-at-buciumi) — Monuments and historic sites · Buciumi, SJ · 11 lei · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage A Roman auxiliary fort on the frontier of Dacia Porolissensis, with its walls, gates and headquarters building laid out for visitors, part of the UNESCO site of the Dacian limes. - [Roman Fort at Gilău](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-at-gilau) — Monuments and historic sites · Gilău, CJ · 45 min · UNESCO World Heritage The auxiliary fort of the ala Siliana, one of the largest on the western frontier of Dacia, in the park of Rákóczi-Bánffy Castle, with information panels and graphic reconstructions. - [Roman Fort at Titești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-at-titesti) — Monuments and historic sites · Titești, VL · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage A small 2nd-century Roman stone fort on Cazanului hill near the village of Titești in Țara Loviștei, part of the defensive line of the Limes Alutanus along the Olt valley. - [Roman Fort of Orheiu Bistriței](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-orheiu-bistritei) — Monuments and historic sites · Orheiu Bistriței, BN · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage A 2nd–3rd-century Roman fort, garrisoned by a cohort of a thousand men, over which the village of Orheiu Bistriței was built; no walls remain visible above ground. - [Roman Fort of Războieni-Cetate](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-razboieni-cetate) — Monuments and historic sites · Ocna Mureș, AB · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage A Roman cavalry fort in the Mureș valley near Ocna Mureș, the second largest in Alba County, lying under farmland and houses; its remains show up only in aerial photographs. - [Roman Fort of Tibiscum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-tibiscum) — Monuments and historic sites · Jupa, CS · 6 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage The most thoroughly excavated Roman site in the Banat: stone walls of the fort and traces of the civil town on the banks of the Timiș, in the village of Jupa near Caransebeș. - [Roșia Montană](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rosia-montana) — Monuments and historic sites · Roșia Montană, AB · 30 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A mining village in the Apuseni Mountains and a UNESCO site since 2021: the Roman galleries of Alburnus Maior in the Mining Museum, the old centre with stone houses, the mining ponds and Piatra Despicată. - [Russian Church (Saint Nicholas)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/russian-church) — Churches · București · 20 min A church built in 1905–1909 by the Russian embassy, with seven Russian-style towers, brick façades with glazed ceramic, a gilded iconostasis and interior painting with icons by Viktor Vasnetsov. - [Severin Medieval Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/severin-medieval-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Drobeta-Turnu Severin, MH · 45 min The ruins of the fortress on the Danube bank, centre of the Banate of Severin in the 13th century: consolidated walls and moat, the surviving north-east tower and a medieval festival each autumn. - [Sfinții Voievozi Monastery, Slobozia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sfintii-voievozi-monastery-slobozia) — Monasteries · Slobozia, IL · Free · 30 min 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. - [Șiria Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/siria-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Șiria, AR · Free · 1 – 1½ hours The ruins of a 13th-century stone fortress on Dealul Cetății above Șiria, with walls, towers and a wide view over the Arad Plain. - [Stairs Passage (Pasajul Scărilor)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stairs-passage) — Monuments and historic sites · Sibiu, SB · Free · 15 min A narrow passage of stone and brick in Sibiu, with vaulted arches, steps and the buttresses of a medieval wall, running down from near Huet Square to the Lower Town. - [Știrbei Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stirbei-palace) — Castles and palaces · București · Free · 45 min A Neoclassical palace on Calea Victoriei, built around 1835 to plans by Michel Sanjouand, with a façade decorated with caryatids; since 2025 it has housed the luxury store TOFF Galleries. - [Thieves' Cave (Peștera Hoților)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/thieves-cave) — Caves · Băile Herculane, CS · 30 min A 143 m rock shelter, five minutes up a concrete staircase behind the Hotel Roman; its walls carry visitors' signatures from the 19th century, and excavations have uncovered traces of habitation from the Palaeolithic to the Roman period. - [Timișoara National Theatre and Opera](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/timisoara-national-theatre-and-opera) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · 2 – 2½ hours The building on Piața Victoriei, opened in 1875 to plans by the firm Fellner & Helmer and rebuilt by Duiliu Marcu, with a travertine façade; four performing-arts institutions are based here. - [Trajan's Bridge](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/trajan-s-bridge) — Monuments and historic sites · Drobeta-Turnu Severin, MH · 20 min · UNESCO World Heritage The ruin of the northern end of the bridge over the Danube built in 103–105 by Apollodorus of Damascus for Trajan, in the archaeological park of the museum in Drobeta-Turnu Severin. - [Turda History Museum (Princely Palace)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/turda-history-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Turda, CJ · 16 lei · ½ – 1 hours Archaeology and local history museum in a 15th–16th-century building in Turda's old centre, known as the Princely Palace: finds from the Roman fort of Potaissa, prehistory and medieval Turda. - [University Palace of Bucharest](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/university-palace-of-bucharest) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 20 min The historic seat of the University of Bucharest, built in 1857–1869 to plans by Alexandru Orăscu: a neoclassical façade, four Muses added in 1929 and a pediment crowned again in 2026 with a bronze eagle and griffins. - [Urmánczy Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/urmanczy-castle) — Castles and palaces · Toplița, HR · ½ – 1 hours A residence with the air of a medieval castle and Secession touches, built in 1903–1906 for the Urmánczy family, with a water tower and a stone plinth; restored and open to visit by appointment. - [Victory Square (Piața Victoriei)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/victory-square) — Monuments and historic sites · Timișoara, TM · Free · 45 min Timișoara's pedestrian esplanade between the Opera in the Palace of Culture and the Metropolitan Cathedral, lined with the Corso palaces and the place where Timișoara was declared the first free city in December 1989. - [Anghel Saligny Bridge at Fetești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/anghel-saligny-bridge-at-fetesti) — Monuments and historic sites · Fetești, IL · Free · 20 min The railway bridge over the Borcea branch, part of the complex Anghel Saligny built in 1890–1895 between Fetești and Cernavodă; best seen from a distance, next to the new A2 bridge. - [Antim Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/antim-monastery) — Monasteries · București · Free · 30 min A monastery in the centre of Bucharest, founded in 1713–1715 by Saint Anthim the Iberian, with a trefoil-plan church, carved stone window frames and a courtyard with a bell tower and abbots' houses. - [Arad Administrative Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arad-administrative-palace) — Castles and palaces · Arad, AR · Free · 20 min A neo-Renaissance palace of 1872–1877 on Bulevardul Revoluției, home to Arad City Hall, with a 54 m clock tower that has become the image of the city. - [Argamum Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/argamum-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Jurilovca, TL · 1 – 1½ hours The ruins of the Greek city of Orgame and the late Roman fortress of Argamum on Cape Doloșman, above Lake Razim: walls, a gate and four early Christian basilicas in a wild landscape. - [Armenian Catholic Cathedral of Gherla](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/armenian-catholic-cathedral-of-gherla) — Churches · Gherla, CJ · 30 min The Baroque Holy Trinity church, built by the Armenians of Armenopolis between 1748 and 1804, dominates the centre of Gherla and keeps a Descent from the Cross attributed to Rubens or his school. - [Arnota Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arnota-monastery) — Monasteries · Costești, VL · 45 min Matei Basarab's foundation of 1633–1634, on a limestone spur above Bistrița Monastery: a small princely church, painted in 1644, which holds the prince's tomb. - [Basarabi-Murfatlar Cave Complex](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/basarabi-murfatlar-cave-complex) — Monuments and historic sites · Murfatlar, CT · 20 min A monastery carved into the chalk hill at Murfatlar in the 10th century, with six small churches and hundreds of crosses, drawings and runic, Cyrillic, Greek and Glagolitic inscriptions. Closed to the public. - [Batthyaneum Library](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/batthyaneum-library) — Museums and memorial houses · Alba Iulia, AB · 45 min The library in the Alba Carolina Fortress, housed in a former Baroque Trinitarian church: over 50,000 books, nearly 600 incunabula, 1,230 manuscripts and a fragment of the Codex Aureus. - [Bethlen Pál Castle in Beclean](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bethlen-pal-castle-in-beclean) — Castles and palaces · Beclean, BN · 15 min The residence of Count Pál Bethlen, rebuilt around 1900 on the site of the family's old fortress, with two hexagonal towers; a former town hall, now unused and not set up for visitors. - [Bistrița Medieval Fortress (Coopers' Tower)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bistrita-medieval-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Bistrița, BN · Free · 30 min All that remains of Bistrița's Saxon fortifications is the 25 m Coopers' Tower and sections of 15th–16th-century stone wall, restored with PNRR funds and reopened in 2026. - [Bistrița Monastery (Vâlcea)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bistrita-monastery) — Monasteries · Costești, VL · ½ – 1 hours A late 15th-century foundation of the Craiovești boyars at the entrance to the Bistrița Gorges: it keeps the relics of St Gregory the Decapolite and the little infirmary church of 1520–1521. - [Black Eagle Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/black-eagle-palace) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · Free · 30 min A Secession building from 1907–1908 on Piața Unirii in Oradea, with a glass-roofed passage and a stained-glass window of a black eagle, from which it takes its name. - [Bogdana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bogdana-monastery) — Monasteries · Rădăuți, SV · 45 min In the centre of Rădăuți, the Church of St Nicholas, founded by Bogdan I around 1360, is the oldest surviving stone church in Moldavia and the resting place of the first Moldavian princes. - [Bucharest National Opera](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bucharest-national-opera) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 2½ – 3 hours The opera house on Mihail Kogălniceanu Boulevard, built in 1953 to plans by Octav Doicescu, with a portico of three arches and a horseshoe-shaped auditorium. - [Calvaria Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/calvaria-church) — Churches · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 30 min The Roman Catholic church on the site of the old Benedictine abbey of Mănăștur: a medieval Gothic choir, a bell tower designed by Károly Kós and earth ramparts of the fortification. - [Cartianu Kula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cartianu-kula) — Fortresses and fortifications · Turcinești, GJ · 45 min Fortified boyar house in Cartiu, near Târgu Jiu, built around 1760 on the core of a kula and wrapped in timber porches; it now houses a museum of Gorj folk costume. - [Casa Băniei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-baniei) — Museums and memorial houses · Craiova, DJ · 12 lei · 45 min The oldest civil building in Craiova, rebuilt by Constantin Brâncoveanu in 1699, is home to the Ethnography Section of the Oltenia Museum. - [Central Cemetery (Hajongard)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/central-cemetery) — Monuments and historic sites · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · Free · 1 – 1¼ hours One of the oldest cemeteries in Cluj-Napoca, founded in 1585 and spread over 14 sloping hectares: crypts, columns and gravestones of notable Transylvanians. - [Cetățuia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatuia-monastery) — Monasteries · Iași, IS · 45 min A fortified monastery on a hill in the south of Iași, built by Gheorghe Duca in 1669–1672, with a church modelled on the Three Hierarchs, enclosure walls and a bell tower at the entrance. - [Choral Temple](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/choral-temple) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 30 min The largest synagogue in Bucharest, built in 1864–1866 in the Moorish style, with a façade of two-coloured brick and a polychrome interior with galleries on two levels; a working place of worship. - [Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Lugoj (the Two-Tower Church)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/church-of-the-dormition-of-the-mother-of-god-in-lugoj) — Churches · Lugoj, TM · 30 min A Baroque church on Piața Victoriei in Lugoj, built in 1759–1766, with two 57 m towers, a single nave and fresco paintings from 1941–1944. - [Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/church-of-the-holy-apostles-peter-and-paul-bucuresti) — Churches · București · 20 min A stone church built in 1636 by Matei Basarab, hidden among the blocks beside Bulevardul Națiunile Unite, with a columned porch, two towers and an inscription of 1715 by Ștefan Cantacuzino. - [Church of the Holy Archangels (Sfinții Voievozi)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/church-of-the-holy-archangels) — Churches · Târgu Jiu, GJ · 20 min The two-towered Orthodox church on Victory Square, built in 1748–1764 by merchants, with exterior frescoes of ancient philosophers and a past as a museum under communism. - [Cioclovina Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cioclovina-cave) — Caves · Cioclovina, HD · ½ – 1 hours A karst reserve in the Șureanu Mountains: a 6.7 km underground traverse along the Ponorici stream and the fossil cave where the roughly 33,000-year-old “Cioclovina 1” skull was found; access for authorised cavers only. - [Coliboaia Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/coliboaia-cave) — Caves · Câmpani, BH A cave in the Sighiștel Valley, in the Bihor Mountains, with charcoal cave drawings some 32,000–36,000 years old, considered the oldest in Central Europe; closed to the public. - [Comana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/comana-monastery) — Monasteries · Comana, GR · 45 min A fortified lowland monastery founded by Vlad the Impaler in 1461 and rebuilt by Radu Șerban in 1588, with thick walls, a Brâncoveanu-style loggia and the church of St Nicholas, on the edge of the Comana marsh. - [Constantin Brâncuși Memorial House in Hobița](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/constantin-brancusi-memorial-house-in-hobita) — Museums and memorial houses · Peștișani, GJ · 45 min The wooden homestead in the village where Brâncuși was born in 1876: a house with a porch of twist-carved posts, a carved gate, outbuildings and peasant furniture, a museum since 1971. - [Copou Park (Grădina Copou)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/copou-park) — Parks and gardens · Iași, IS · Free · 1 – 1¼ hours The oldest public park in Iași, laid out from 1834 on Copou hill, with the Lions' Obelisk, Eminescu's Linden Tree, the busts of the Junimea writers and the "Mihai Eminescu" Museum. - [Cula Duca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cula-duca) — Fortresses and fortifications · Măldărești, VL · 45 min An Oltenian fortified tower-house from 1812–1827, with a massive ground floor and a decorated veranda, built by the Măldărescu family and bought in 1910 by I.G. Duca; now part of the Măldărești Museum Complex near Horezu. - [Dacia Hotel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dacia-hotel) — Monuments and historic sites · Satu Mare, SM · Free · 15 min The former Pannonia Hotel, built in 1901–1902 in Liberty Square to plans by Zoltán Bálint and Lajos Jámbor, is one of the finest Secession buildings in Satu Mare. It can only be seen from outside: it is under restoration. - [Dinogetia Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dinogetia-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Garvăn, TL · ½ – 1 hours The ruins of a Roman and Byzantine fortress near Garvăn, on a hillock in the Danube floodplain, its curtain wall and towers still standing, facing Galați across the river. - [Dintr-un Lemn Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dintr-un-lemn-monastery) — Monasteries · Frâncești, VL · ½ – 1 hours A convent in Vâlcea named after the legend of a church carved from a single oak: the little wooden church in the cemetery and Matei Basarab's stone church, with its icon of the Mother of God. - [Firemen's Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/firemen-s-tower-satu-mare) — Fortresses and fortifications · Satu Mare, SM · 10 lei · 30 min A red-brick fire tower, 47 m tall, built in 1904 on the initiative of Bishop Gyula Meszlényi; the balcony at the top looks out over the whole centre of Satu Mare. - [Galata Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/galata-monastery) — Monasteries · Iași, IS · 45 min A convent on Galata Hill in Iași, founded by Petru Șchiopul in the 1580s, with a stone-and-brick church, the first in Moldavia with two towers, and a walled enclosure with a fortress-like bell tower. - [Greceanu Kula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/greceanu-kula) — Fortresses and fortifications · Măldărești, VL · 30 min The oldest kula of the Măldărești museum complex, a boyar tower from the 16th century completed in the 18th, with arcaded porches and an upper floor laid out as an Oltenian minor boyar's court. - [Gyárfás Manor](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gyarfas-manor) — Castles and palaces · Cristuru Secuiesc, HR · 30 min A Classicist manor in Cristuru Secuiesc, begun in 1728, where Petőfi Sándor spent the night before the Battle of Albești; restored and reopened in May 2026, with the poet's pear tree in the yard. - [Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church of Sibiu](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/holy-trinity-roman-catholic-church-of-sibiu) — Churches · Sibiu, SB · Free · 30 min The Baroque Jesuit church on the Grand Square, built in 1726–1733, with the fresco behind the high altar, the 1860 organ and the funerary monument of Marshal Traun. - [House of the Free Press (Casa Presei Libere)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/house-of-the-free-press) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 20 min The former Casa Scânteii, the Socialist Realist building in northern Bucharest with a central tower and antenna, 104 m tall: between 1956 and 2007 it was the tallest in the city. It can be seen from outside, from Free Press Square. - [Ion Creangă Memorial House in Humulești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ion-creanga-memorial-house-in-humulesti) — Museums and memorial houses · Târgu Neamț, NT · 20 lei · 45 min The peasant house of logs and clay, with a shingle roof, where Ion Creangă grew up, the hero of “Memories of My Boyhood”. A museum since 1951, restored and reopened in 2024. - [Ipotești Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ipotesti-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Ipotești, BT · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The Eminovici family house in Ipotești, rebuilt on the foundations of the one from Mihai Eminescu's childhood, with the family's wooden church, his parents' graves and a peasant house holding an ethnographic collection. - [Jidava Roman Fort (Jidova)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/jidava-roman-fort) — Monuments and historic sites · Câmpulung, AG · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The Jidova or Jidava fort, at the entrance to Câmpulung, the only stone fort on the Limes Transalutanus, with walls, rebuilt towers, a hypocaust and a site museum; part of the UNESCO site of the Roman frontier in Dacia. - [Jimbor Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/jimbor-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Jimbor, BV · 30 min A ruined peasant fortress with a stone curtain wall and towers on a hill at the edge of Jimbor village, on the road from Rupea towards the Székely Land; it bears a restoration inscription dated 1692. - [Kornis Castle in Mănăstirea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/kornis-castle-in-manastirea) — Castles and palaces · Mănăstirea, CJ · 30 min Renaissance residence of the Keresztúri and Kornis families, now a ruin near Dej: the 1720 gate tower, a neoclassical wing with a colonnade and the plinths of the two unicorns. - [Kretzulescu Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/kretzulescu-church) — Churches · București · 20 min A Brâncoveanu-style church of exposed brick, built in 1720–1722 on Calea Victoriei near Revolution Square, with an open porch on stone columns, two towers and the original painting in the porch. - [Mangalia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mangalia) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 2½ – 3 hours The town at the southern end of the Romanian coast: the 1575 Esmahan Sultan Mosque, the marina, the archaeology museum, the Callatis ruins and the seafront, in the same municipality as the Saturn–Olimp resorts. - [Maria Filotti Theatre](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/maria-filotti-theatre) — Monuments and historic sites · Brăila, BR · 1½ – 2 hours The former Rally Theatre, a heritage building in Brăila's historic centre, with a richly ornamented façade on Calea Regală, restored with EU funds and still a working repertory theatre. - [Martinuzzi Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/martinuzzi-castle) — Castles and palaces · Vințu de Jos, AB · 20 min The ruin of a Renaissance residence in Vințu de Jos, built by Cardinal Martinuzzi on the site of a Dominican monastery and remade as a fortress by Gabriel Bethlen; it is now fenced off and awaiting restoration. - [Mateiaș Mausoleum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mateias-mausoleum) — Monuments and historic sites · Valea Mare-Pravăț, AG · 11 lei · 45 min The First World War heroes' mausoleum on Mateiaș Hill, built between 1928 and 1935 beside the DN73 on the site of the autumn 1916 fighting, with an ossuary, a bas-relief and two museum rooms. - [Matthias Corvinus House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/matthias-corvinus-house) — Monuments and historic sites · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 15 min A Gothic house of the 15th century where King Matthias Corvinus was born in 1443; today it belongs to the University of Art and Design and is best seen from the street, with its pointed-arch portal and commemorative plaques. - [Memorial of the December 1989 Revolution](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorial-of-the-december-1989-revolution) — Museums and memorial houses · Timișoara, TM · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The museum of the Memorial of the Revolution Association, in a former military building in Timișoara: clothes and flags from the days of December 1989, a chapel of the hero-martyrs and the only section of the Berlin Wall in Romania. - [Moon Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/moon-church) — Churches · Oradea, BH · Free · 30 min The Orthodox church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Piața Unirii, built in 1784–1790 and known for the globe in its tower that shows the phases of the Moon, in a mechanism of 1793. - [National Military Circle Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-military-circle-palace) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 20 min A palace in central Bucharest, built in 1911–1923 to plans by Dimitrie Maimarolu, with a façade of Corinthian columns, steps down to the Sărindar Fountain and richly decorated ceremonial halls. - [National Museum of the Union and the Union Hall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-the-union-and-the-union-hall) — Museums and memorial houses · Alba Iulia, AB · 25 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The museum in the Babylon building and the Union Hall, where the union of Transylvania with Romania was voted on 1 December 1918, in the heart of the Alba Carolina Fortress. - [Negru Vodă Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/negru-voda-monastery) — Monasteries · Câmpulung, AG · 45 min 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. - [Nicolae Simache Clock Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/nicolae-simache-clock-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Ploiești, PH · 50 lei · ½ – 1 hours A museum of timekeeping in a late 19th-century house in Ploiești: astronomical clocks from the 16th century, pocket watches, mantel clocks and musical mechanisms that still work today. - [Old Lighthouse of Sulina](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/old-lighthouse-of-sulina) — Museums and memorial houses · Sulina, TL · 20 lei · 45 min The white tower of the European Commission of the Danube in the middle of Sulina, now a museum about the town called “Europolis”, the writer Jean Bart and the conductor George Georgescu. - [Pătrăuți Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/patrauti-monastery) — Monasteries · Pătrăuți, SV · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Patriarchal Cathedral of Bucharest](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/patriarchal-cathedral-of-bucharest) — Churches · București · Free · 30 min The church built in 1654–1658 on Metropolitan Hill, a patriarchal cathedral since 1925, with the relics of Saint Demetrius the New and a Brâncoveanu bell tower from 1698. - [Peștera cu Oase (Cave with Bones)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pestera-cu-oase) — Caves · Anina, CS A cave closed to visitors in the Miniș valley near Anina, where some of the oldest modern human fossils in Europe, about 40,000 years old, came to light in 2002. - [Pharmacy History Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pharmacy-history-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 16 lei · ½ – 1 hours A department of the Brukenthal National Museum, in an arcaded house on the Small Square, the former "At the Black Bear" pharmacy: the dispensary, the laboratory and a homeopathy collection of almost 3,000 pieces. - [Piața Unirii (Union Square)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/piata-unirii) — Monuments and historic sites · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · Free · 30 min The central square of Cluj, with the Gothic St Michael's Church, the 1902 equestrian statue of Matthias Corvinus and the façades of the Bánffy Palace and the surrounding houses. - [Popa Nan Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/popa-nan-church) — Churches · București · 20 min An Orthodox church in Sector 2, built in 1910–1918 to plans by Cristofi Cerchez, with a porch on eight columns, two towers and interior painting redone after the 1977 earthquake. - [Popăuți Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/popauti-monastery) — Monasteries · Botoșani, BT · 30 min 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. - [Precista Church (Dormition of the Mother of God)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/precista-church) — Churches · Bacău, BC · 30 min The church built in 1489–1491 by Alexandru, son of Stephen the Great, on 9 Mai Street in Bacău: a trefoil plan, an octagonal tower and rows of brick niches, next to the ruins of the princely court. - [Princely Church of St Nicholas](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/princely-church-of-st-nicholas) — Churches · Curtea de Argeș, AG · 12 lei · 45 min Basarab I's foundation in Curtea de Argeș, with 14th-century frescoes, surrounded by the ruins of the princely court of Wallachia. - [Râmeț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ramet-monastery) — Monasteries · Râmeț, AB · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [Regina Maria Theatre](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/regina-maria-theatre) — Monuments and historic sites · Oradea, BH · from 25 lei · 2 – 2½ hours The Oradea State Theatre building, designed by the Viennese firm Fellner & Helmer and opened in 1900: an Ionic portico on Piața Ferdinand and an auditorium with boxes and a balcony, still in use every week. - [Roman Fort of Drajna de Sus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-drajna-de-sus) — Monuments and historic sites · Drajna de Sus, PH · 45 min A Roman fort in the Teleajen Valley, built during the Dacian Wars, with stone walls and a building with hypocaust heating; currently being developed as an archaeological park. - [Roman Fort of Hinova](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-hinova) — Monuments and historic sites · Hinova, MH · 30 min A late Roman fort on the first terrace of the Danube, north of Hinova village, with low stone walls and seven towers; the largest prehistoric gold hoard in Romania was found here. - [Roman Fort of Micia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-micia) — Monuments and historic sites · Vețel, HD · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A Roman fort and settlement on the banks of the Mureș near Deva, with its amphitheatre and Roman baths surviving in open fields, beneath the towers of the Mintia power station. - [Roman Fort of Pietroasele](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-pietroasele) — Monuments and historic sites · Pietroasele, BZ · 30 min A late Roman fort built in the 4th century north of the Danube, and its hypocaust baths, whose walls can be seen in the centre of Pietroasele commune, close to where the "Golden Hen with Chicks" treasure was found. - [Roman Fort of Răcarii de Jos](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-fort-of-racarii-de-jos) — Monuments and historic sites · Răcari, DJ · 30 min The most important Roman fort in the Jiu valley, beside Răcari railway station in Brădești commune, once home to a unit of Moorish horsemen; excavations go on, and the granary foundation was found in 2025. - [Ropemakers' Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ropemakers-bastion) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · Free · 10 min The oldest documented bastion of Brașov's walled town, mentioned in 1416: a hexagonal stone fortification with brick arches and a house from 1794 inside. It can be seen from the outside, from the path. - [Slimnic Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/slimnic-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Slimnic, SB · 45 min A Saxon peasant fortress of brick on Burgbasch Hill above the village: a bell tower with a Gothic chapel and the imposing ruin of a hall church that was never finished. - [Șoimoș Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/soimos-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Lipova, AR · 1 – 1½ hours The ruins of a 13th-century royal fortress on a rock above the Mureș and Șoimoș village, near Lipova, with towers, a wide inner courtyard and views over the river valley. - [St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Cluj-Napoca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-michael-s-roman-catholic-church-cluj-napoca) — Churches · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 30 min The Gothic hall church on Piața Unirii, built in the 14th–15th centuries, with a 76 m Neo-Gothic tower, a Baroque pulpit and the frescoes of the Schleunig chapel. - [Stavropoleos Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stavropoleos-monastery) — Monasteries · București · Free · 30 min 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. - [Stephen's Tower (Turnul Ștefan)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stephen-s-tower) — Monuments and historic sites · Baia Mare, MM · 5 lei · 30 min The 15th-century bell tower of a demolished church and the symbol of Baia Mare, on Piața Cetății; the gallery at the top gives a panorama of the city. - [Sucidava Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sucidava-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Corabia, OT · Free · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The Daco-Roman and Roman-Byzantine fortress in Corabia, with its excavated walls and towers, a 6th-century basilica, the "secret well" and the northern pier of Constantine the Great's bridge over the Danube. - [Traian Square (Piața Traian)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/traian-square-braila) — Monuments and historic sites · Brăila, BR · Free · 45 min The central square of old Brăila, from which the streets of the historic centre fan out, with the blue Public Clock of 1909, the Holy Archangels church, a former mosque, and the statue of Trajan. - [Tudor Vladimirescu Cula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tudor-vladimirescu-cula) — Fortresses and fortifications · Cerneți, MH · 30 min The cula on Gârdanul Hill near Drobeta-Turnu Severin, linked to the name of Tudor Vladimirescu: a fortified boyar house with a brick-columned gallery and a watchtower, currently being restored. - [Turnu Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/turnu-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Turnu Măgurele, TR · 30 min The ruins of a medieval fortress on the Danube bank, documented in the time of Mircea the Elder and held by the Ottomans until 1829, with a consolidated round central tower. - [Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ulpia-traiana-sarmizegetusa) — Monuments and historic sites · Sarmizegetusa, HD · 30 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The capital of Roman Dacia in the Hațeg Country: the restored amphitheatre and the ruins of the forum, walls and temples of the city founded by Trajan, plus the site's archaeological museum. - [Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vasile-alecsandri-national-theatre) — Monuments and historic sites · Iași, IS · 2 – 2½ hours The Iași National Theatre building, designed by Fellner & Helmer and opened in 1896: an Ionic portico façade and a rococo auditorium with 740 seats, shared with the Romanian National Opera. - [Vaslui Princely Court (Curtea Domnească din Vaslui)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vaslui-princely-court) — Monuments and historic sites · Vaslui, VS · 45 min An archaeological park laid out on the site of Moldavia's princely court in Vaslui, with the Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist, a foundation of Stephen the Great from 1490, in the town centre. - [Victoria Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/victoria-palace) — Monuments and historic sites · București · Free · 15 min The seat of the Romanian Government in Victory Square, built between 1937 and 1952 to plans by Duiliu Marcu, in the simplified neoclassical style of the 1930s. --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/monuments-and-historic-sites Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/monumente-si-situri-istorice.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/denkmaeler-und-historische-staetten.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/monumenti-e-siti-storici.md · Français: https://peplaiuri.ro/fr/monuments-et-sites-historiques.md · Español: https://peplaiuri.ro/es/monumentos-y-sitios-historicos.md · Magyar: https://peplaiuri.ro/hu/muemlekek-es-tortenelmi-helyszinek.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania