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TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: WHAT TO VISIT IN ROMANIA
ROMANIA
 

Tourist attractions: Romania is an interesting destination from a cultural and natural point of view, Romania's territory features splendid mountains, beautiful rolling hills, fertile plains and numerous rivers and lakes, cultural attractions are the numerous castles, ancient towns, medieval fortresses, wooden and painted churches.

At the center of Eastern Europe, Romania has many tourist attractions. The coast which overlooks the Black Sea, is studded with modern resort, a short distance from what is the nature reserve of the Danube Delta. The Transylvania, home of Dracula, offers striking castles such as Bran and imposing mountain forests in the region of the Carpathians. Interesting cities linked to the history of Rome as Julia Alba, Arad, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Drobeta-Turnu Severin and Sibiu. 

Unesco has inscribed 7 Romania site in the World Heritage List: Churches of Moldavia (1993), Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains (1999), Historic Centre of Sighişoara (1999), Monastery of Horezu (1993), Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania (1993), Wooden Churches of Maramureş (1999), Danube Delta (1991).

 

Among the properties submitted on the Tentative List are: Le Monastère de Neamt (1991), Eglises byzantines et post-byzantines de Curtea de Arges (1991), L'ensemble monumental de Tirgu Jiu (1991), L'ensemble rupestre de Basarabi (1991), L'église des Trois Hiérarques de Iassy (1991), Les "coules" de Petite Valachie (1991), L'église de Densus (1991), Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (1991), Massif du Retezat (1991), Pietrosul Rodnei (sommet de montagne) (1991), Sinpetru (site paléontologique) (1991), Codrul secular Slatiora (forêt séculaire) (1991), The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (2004), Eglise de la Résurrection du monastère de Sucevita (2005).

 

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