A spectacular mountain road across the Făgăraș Mountains, Romania's highest, built in the 1970s for military reasons, twisting up through hairpin bends to 2,042 m at the glacial lake of Bâlea Lac, with a tunnel under the ridge.
The high section is open only from about July to October, depending on snow. Stop at Poenari Castle, Vlad the Impaler's fortress, reached by 1,480 steps, and the Vidraru Dam. The Transalpina is another high mountain road to the west.
A Saxon town of colourful squares, where houses seem to watch you through 'eyes', small dormer windows in their roofs.
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'…
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 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 salt mine dug from the 17th century, now an underground theme park, deep below Transylvania.
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