Monuments and historic sites

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.