Monuments and historic sites

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.