
Foișorul de Foc (Fire Watchtower)
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.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The ruins of a Roman and early Byzantine fortress near Murighiol, a Danube fleet station and bishop's seat, where the crypt of the martyrs Epictetus and Astion was found.

A 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.














