World heritage in Romania

Romanian cultural and natural monuments

The truth is you don't know much about Romania, do you? Well, it is time to discover it stpe by step. Don't know where to beggin? Beggin righ here! Right on this webpage describing the World Heritage sites that Romania is offering to you.

Churches of Bucovina

With their painted exterior walls, decorated with 15th- and 16th-century frescoes that are considered masterpieces of Byzantine art...

Dacian Fortresses

Since the begining of time those who lived on the teritorry of today's Romania had to find ways of protecting themselves from foreign invasion...

Sighisoara City

Indeed, Sighisoara can be considered the most beautiful and well preserved citadel of Europe. The citadel was built by Saxons in the 12th..

Fortified Churches

When asked to give examples of villages with fortified churches, people around the world usually mention Mont Saint Michel in France. But not the...

Monastery of Horezu

It’s founder, Constantin Brancoveanu, along with his sons, had a cruel fate, at the hands of the Turks, but still, Horezu...

Wooden Churches

Narrow. With massive roofs. With slim and very tall towers at the West side of the church. The tallest: 72m!

Danube Delta

Splash! And the hundreds of great white pelicans start to feed. They catch the fish while swimming at surface, but in an elaborate game...

Other Monuments

Other cultural and natural monuments submitted on the World Heritage List are waiting for you to discover them.

Voronet Monastery Patrauti Monastery Arbore Monastery Suceava Monastery Humor Monastery Probota Monastery Moldovita Monastery Barsana Wooden Church Budesti Wooden Church Desesti Wooden Church Ieud Wooden Church Plopis Wooden Church Poienile Izei Wooden Church Rogoz Wooden Church Surdesti Wooden Church Calnic Fortified Church Biertan Fortified Church Prejmer Fortified Church Danube Delta Valea Viilor Fortified Church Darju Fortified Church Saschiz Fortified Church Viscri Fortified Church Dacian Fortress in Banita The Dacian citadel of Luncani-Piatra Rosie The Dacian citadel of Capalna Sarmizegetusa Regia - the capital of the Dacian kingdom The Dacian citadel of Costesti-Blidaru The Dacian citadel of Costesti-Cetatuie Sighisoara Horezu Monastery Painted Monasteries of Bucovina (7) Wooden Churches of Maramures Dacian Fortresses Villages with fortiffied churches Horezu Monastery - Valcea County Danube Delta - Tulcea County Medieval Town of Sighisoara - Mures County

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Being tired of buying kitsch? Then here are some tips about presents worth buying from Romania.

The first on the list would be the Romanian wine, one of the undiscovered treasures of Eastern Europe...

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Need a translator?

Wheter is official paperwork, a romantic letter or a website, very often you find yourself in need of a good translator. Romanians are known as beign the best foreign language speakers in Europe so find a translator here...

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