Trip ideas
Themed trails
The best of Romania, grouped into stories — pick a theme and follow it across the country.
Myth & history
On the trail of Dracula
Between Bram Stoker's fiction and the real Vlad the Impaler: Bran Castle, Poenari Fortress (his actual stronghold), Sighișoara where he was born, the princely seat at Târgoviște and the Borgo Pass from the novel. A trail that separates legend from history.
Explore the trail →UNESCO heritage
The painted monasteries of Bukovina
16th-century frescoes on the outer walls, surviving five hundred winters: Voroneț and its famous blue, Sucevița, Moldovița, Humor, Arbore. Romania's finest page of medieval art.
Explore the trail →The Saxon world
The Saxon fortified churches
Seven villages with fortified churches are UNESCO-listed. Biertan, Viscri, Prejmer, Saschiz, Valea Viilor, Dârjiu, Câlnic — church-fortresses raised by Saxon settlers to withstand sieges, now quiet treasures of Transylvania.
Explore the trail →Behind the wheel
Romania's spectacular roads
The Transfăgărășan, called 'the best road in the world', and the Transalpina, the country's highest road, climb through ridges above 2,000 m. Open in summer, with hairpins, waterfalls and glacial lakes at every bend.
Explore the trail →Underground
Salt mines you can visit
Romania has some of the world's most spectacular salt mines: Turda, with its underground Ferris wheel, Praid and Slănic, with vast galleries where people descend for therapeutic air, sport and even concerts.
Explore the trail →Nostalgia
Steam trains & mountain railways
Romania's little steam trains climb through wild valleys no road can reach. The Vaser Valley steam train in Maramureș is Europe's last forestry steam railway still hauling timber.
Explore the trail →Aristocracy
Castles, palaces & manors
From Peleș, the finest royal castle, to Corvin Fortress and the boyar manors and Oltenian kule — the residences that tell the story of Romania's aristocracy and Transylvania's nobility.
Explore the trail →Nature
Lakes, waterfalls & gorges
The Red Lake and the Bicaz Gorge, the Bâlea waterfall, Saint Ana Lake in a volcanic crater, the Vidraru dam — the spectacular waters of the Carpathians, among cliffs and forests.
Explore the trail →Underground
Caves & the underground world
Romania hides a spectacular underground world: Scărișoara Cave, with the country's largest underground glacier, the Bears' Cave with its fossil skeletons, Muierilor, Meziad and dozens of galleries of stalactites, rivers and bats.
Explore the trail →Geology
Volcanoes & geological wonders
The Mud Volcanoes of Buzău look like a landscape from another planet, Saint Ana is the country's only crater lake, the basalt columns of Racoș and Detunata are sculptures of ancient fire. Romania can be read in its stone, too.
Explore the trail →