A medieval castle perched on a rock at the Bran Pass in Transylvania, marketed as 'Dracula's Castle' because it looks like the castle in Bram Stoker's novel, though Vlad the Impaler probably never lived here. It was a royal residence of Queen Marie of Romania, whose furnished rooms you can see, with secret staircases.
It's very busy in summer; go early. It's about 30 km from Brașov. The Râșnov citadel, on a hill nearby, is less crowded.
A Saxon town in Transylvania below the forested Tâmpa mountain, with a colourful main square (Piața Sfatului) and the Black Church, the largest Gothi…
A fairytale neo-Renaissance castle in the Carpathian forest above Sinaia, built for King Carol I between 1873 and 1914, one of the first castles in E…
A spectacular mountain road across the Făgăraș Mountains, Romania's highest, built in the 1970s for military reasons, twisting up through hairpin ben…
One of the best-preserved inhabited medieval citadels in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with colourful houses, cobbled lanes, and nine survivi…
A Saxon town of colourful squares, where houses seem to watch you through 'eyes', small dormer windows in their roofs.
One of the largest administrative buildings in the world, built by the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in the 1980s, after demolishing a large part of old…
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