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The castle courtyard on a clear day, with the white palace and its Renaissance gables, the tower with its wooden gallery and a ruined building on the right, below the pine forest

Lázár Castle in Lăzarea

Lăzarea, HRClosed35 lei

Castles and palaces

A 1904 postcard: the arched entrance to the salt mine, topped by the miners' crossed hammers, with a mine cart on rails and miners in front of the gallery

Ocna Dej Salt Mine

Dej, CJClosed

Salt mines

The entrance to the resort in summer, with the large car park and the forested slope of Postăvaru and a ski run behind

Poiana Brașov

Brașov, BVOpenFree

Resorts and thermal baths

The long red wall of Râpa Roșie, cut by gullies below a wooded ridge, seen from afar across the fields

Râpa Roșie

Sebeș, ABOpenFree

National parks and reserves

Fundățica village on the pastures of the Rucăr–Bran corridor, with spruce forest and the limestone ridge of Piatra Craiului behind

Rucăr–Bran Pass

Brașov CountyOpenFree

Scenic roads

The church tower, with its clock faces and green spire with turrets, above the rooftops of central Mediaș in the evening light

St Margaret's Church, Mediaș

Mediaș, SBClosed15 lei

Monasteries and churches

The stone church with its tall tower over the nave, the stone roof slabs and the apse, seen from the cemetery under a blue sky

St Nicholas Church in Densuș

Densuș, HDFree

Monasteries and churches

The stone gateway on Piața Unirii, with the church's tall tower and its clocks rising behind, below wooded hills

St Nicholas Church in Șchei

Brașov, BV

Monasteries and churches

Strada Sforii between the yellow walls of the houses, with a passer-by at the far end and Tâmpa with its BRASOV letters above the roofs

Strada Sforii (Rope Street)

Brașov, BVFree

Monuments and historic sites

The museum's stone entrance porch and the tower with its coloured-tile spire, seen between shrubs

Székely National Museum

Sfântu Gheorghe, CVClosed25 lei

Museums and memorial houses

The cave's Great Hall, its high limestone roof lit up and a metal staircase climbing between blocks of rock

Valea Cetății Cave

Râșnov, BVClosed35 lei

Caves

photo — Vânătările Ponorului Waterfall

Vânătările Ponorului Waterfall

Dumești, ABOpenFree

Waterfalls

The tower's white walls seen from below on the grassy slope, with the corbelled stone balcony and the metal entrance stairs

White Tower

Brașov, BVFree

Fortresses and fortifications

The gravel road to the sanctuary entrance, with the ticket and souvenir hut bearing a bear on its wall, in front of a green forest

Zărnești Bear Sanctuary

Zărnești, BVClosed95 lei

Zoos and aquariums

The Japanese garden in summer: a red arched bridge and the shingle-roofed tea house among shrubs and hydrangeas

Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden

Cluj-Napoca, CJClosed21 lei

Parks and gardens