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A convent in the Hațeg Country, with a stone church rebuilt in 1564 and the grave of St Arsenie of Prislop (Father Arsenie Boca), one of the largest pilgrimage sites in Romania.
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.
A medieval church with a Romanesque nave and a Gothic sanctuary, enclosed by a wall with a gate tower on the terrace above the Olt. It keeps fragments of medieval frescoes.
A Gothic church of the 14th–15th centuries, with a stone portal from the early 16th century, set within an enclosure wall and a tall tower with a pointed roof. Inside are coffered ceilings and a polychrome pulpit.
Romania's first national park, created in 1935 in the Retezat Mountains: granite ridges above 2,000 m, Peleaga Peak (2,509 m) and more than 80 glacial lakes, crossed by waymarked trails.
A Late Baroque castle in Sângeorgiu de Pădure, rebuilt in 1807–1809 by Count László Rhédey; today a museum with guided visits about Countess Claudia Rhédey.
A Gothic church of the 14th–16th centuries, protected by a fortified wall with loopholes and a gate tower, in the centre of a village in Lower Ciuc. One of the largest medieval churches in the area.
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.
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 Roman fort and settlement on the banks of the Mureș near Deva, with its amphitheatre and Roman baths surviving in open fields, beneath the towers of the Mintia power station.
Romania's first open-air museum, on Hoia hill: farmsteads, workshops, peasant installations and three wooden churches gathered over ~16 hectares into a scattered village.
The pass between Piatra Craiului and the Bucegi: the DN73 climbs from Rucăr onto the Fundata plateau, over the Giuvala Pass at about 1,260 m, and descends to Bran past hamlets scattered on the ridges.
A small wooden church of 1761, surviving only as the sanctuary and part of the nave, set at the top of the village cemetery and holding old paintings on wood.
A medieval fortified church inside an oval enclosure of river stone, with a ruined gate tower on the north side; built on the site of a Romanesque basilica of the 13th century.
Romania's oldest dendrological park, on almost 70 hectares beside the Mureș: more than 2,000 taxa, magnolias in spring and paths among centuries-old trees.
