Drobeta-Turnu Severin

Drobeta-Turnu Severin is a Danube port town in Mehedinți county, at the edge of Oltenia, where the river emerges from the spectacular Iron Gates. Its broad boulevards, parks and landmark water tower give it the air of an elegant nineteenth-century town set on the great waters. Few places in Romania carry the marks of Roman antiquity so visibly.

Here survive the ruins of Trajan's Bridge, raised by Apollodorus of Damascus across the Danube, one of the great engineering feats of the Roman Empire. The Iron Gates Region Museum gathers testimony on the river, nature and history, while the medieval Severin fortress recalls the centuries on the frontier of Christendom. The town is the gateway to the Danube gorge.