Monuments and historic sites

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.