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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
