Parks and gardens

Family leisure park in Murani village, near Timișoara: old trees, a farm, playgrounds and outdoor activities on an estate with a historic manor house.

The largest park in southern Bucharest, laid out between 1965 and 1974 around a lake of about 13 hectares, with long avenues, playgrounds and the Polyvalent Hall.

The botanical garden of Babeș-Bolyai University, on almost 14 hectares in the south of Cluj: a Japanese garden with a tea house on a lake, greenhouses more than 60 years old, a water tower and a botanical museum.

One of Timișoara's oldest parks, next to the Metropolitan Cathedral: wide paths, fountains, pergolas, monuments and the Alley of Personalities, an open-air museum of bronze busts.

The dendrological park beside Timișoara's former fortress, laid out in 1986–1990 on a 1966 plan: over 8 hectares with rare trees, a Japanese garden, a rose collection and a stretch of the fortress wall.

Bucharest's oldest public park, laid out from 1847 in the landscape style around a lake, with shady avenues, the Writers' Rotunda and romantic stone corners, right in the city centre.

Family theme park at Sibișel in the Hațeg area, with dinosaur replicas, an animal farm, playgrounds and outdoor adventure activities at the foot of the Retezat Mountains.

A historic park laid out after 1832 on both sides of Kiseleff Road, with shady avenues, a small lake with a fountain, a wooden gazebo and busts of cultural figures.

A group of limestone crags at the end of the Șchei district of Brașov, on the Valea cu Apă valley, with a picnic area, small cascades and a forest road towards Poiana Brașov.

A botanical garden of almost 24 hectares in the former park of the Wesselényi castle: a Japanese garden with lakes and pavilions, greenhouses with palms and cacti, aquariums and thousands of tulips in spring.

A botanical garden of almost 13 hectares in the middle of Craiova, with lakes, a collection of more than 3,000 taxa, walking paths and a new tropical greenhouse under construction.

A 21.5-hectare dendrological park around the Csernovics Castle, with one of the richest collections of trees and shrubs in the country, an alpine garden, stone sculptures and small museums in the old hunting lodge.

The only Moorish-Byzantine castle in Transylvania, with four towers topped by red onion domes, set in a dendrological park of over 150 species; the castle can only be admired from outside.

A family theme park in the Avrig Valley, home to the Upside-Down House, a 200 sq m tilted house built upside down, plus a mini zoo, tubing and playgrounds.

A historic park laid out in 1900–1906 on Filaret Hill for the General Romanian Exhibition, with a lake, a monumental central avenue, the Zodiac Fountain and the Heroes of the Nation Memorial on the upper plateau.