# Where would you like to go in Romania?

Choose a locality to discover nearby projects, landscapes, transport and listed monuments, with the sources and limits behind every measure.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/visiting-romania/

- [Your Town and the Limes](https://mariuscomper.uk/limes-orasul-tau/en/): Around the year 210, a line stitched from forts, towers and a timber palisade cut present-day Romania in two. Type your town below and find which side you were on — inside, outside, or right on the frontier.
- [Șumuleu Ciuc: how many kilometres on foot to the Pentecost pilgrimage](https://mariuscomper.uk/sumuleu-csiksomlyo/en/): From the western border to the valley that fills each Pentecost run 485.3 km of marked road — 20 days of walking. Type a town name: the page shows the road that remains, section by section.
- [Constantine the Great's bridge at Sucidava: 2,437 metres across the Danube, from AD 328](https://mariuscomper.uk/sucidava-328/en/): Choose a pace and walk its whole length — 2,437 metres, a mile and a half — on a to-scale drawing, while Trajan's bridge, drawn underneath, ends at less than half.
- [The Living Fire at Lopătari: what burns on the hill and how much gas escapes in a year](https://mariuscomper.uk/focul-viu-lopatari/en/): On a slope in the Buzău Subcarpathians, Romania, gas seeps out of the ground and burns — 21.9–26.9 tonnes of methane a year, by two measurement campaigns. Drill 3,331 metres down after the gas, then set the flame beside your own home's use.
- [Where was Stephen's Chilia? A port, two banks](https://mariuscomper.uk/chilia-lui-stefan/en/): Stephen the Great captured Chilia in January 1465; the port passed to the Ottomans in 1484. But where was the Chilia he captured — at Chilia Veche on the Romanian bank, or at Kiliia in Ukraine? Switch banks and compare the evidence: names, finds, plans, published interpretations — no prefabricated answer.
- [Place of the day: guess where in Romania from the terrain alone](https://mariuscomper.uk/locul-zilei/en/): See only the relief around a place in Romania and take six guesses to find it on the map. A new place every day, with streaks, levels and a collection of counties; after the game, the place’s story in the site’s projects.
- [Bicaz Gorge: Six, Seven or Eight Kilometres?](https://mariuscomper.uk/cheile-bicazului/en/): Six, seven and a half or eight kilometres of gorge, depending on how you measure. Fly over the real valley, in 3D, and see how the Bicaz river cut the mountain in two: four sectors, walls over three hundred metres, and an incision machine you drive with time. In Romanian and English.
- [The night a lake was born](https://mariuscomper.uk/lacul-rosu/en/): In the summer of 1837, a slope of Mount Ghilcoș slid across the Bicaz valley and created Red Lake, with its drowned fir forest. Replay the night of the slide on the real valley, in 3D, and weigh the evidence: the rains of 1837 or the earthquake of 1838? In Romanian and English.
- [The Hills Made of Houses: more than a thousand years of Gumelnița, from 406 radiocarbon dates](https://mariuscomper.uk/gumelnita/en/): Between 4900 and 3800 BC on the Lower Danube, people built their houses one on top of another until their villages became mounds. A clock drawn from 406 radiocarbon dates, the gold of Varna, four people raised elsewhere and what has actually been found under Bucharest, in Romanian and English.
- [Why does the Danube have two ancient names?](https://mariuscomper.uk/dunarea-doua-nume/en/): Herodotus calls the whole river Ister; Strabo cuts it at the cataracts, Danuvius above, Ister below. Each ancient author draws the name boundary elsewhere.
- [The metro they built without asking Moscow](https://mariuscomper.uk/metroul-din-bucuresti/en/): In 1952, Soviet counsellors rejected the Bucharest metro as a “premature aspiration”. Twenty years later the Romanians dug it on their own. A station-by-station map, a page for each of the 57 stations, where their names come from, and the metro that isn't there.
- [Danube Cruise Selector: Routes, Companies and Seasons on the Romanian Leg](https://mariuscomper.uk/croaziera-dunarii/en/): One Romanian Danube as the base, sold six ways by three companies (one detours to the sea): an 11-day cruise-tour, an 8-day short sailing, 12-day / 14-night full transits. Route, company and season compared, with sailing months and dated fares, so you leave with a route plus a company plus a month.
- [Six UNESCO Dacian fortresses, one ticket office. The other five you reach on foot.](https://mariuscomper.uk/cetati-dacice/en/): A map of the six Dacian fortresses in the Orăștie Mountains shows road and walking access, elevation gain, time needed, opening hours, tickets and each site's condition.
- [Everyone goes to Viscri and Biertan. There are 160 more fortified churches, and at most of them you phone for the key.](https://mariuscomper.uk/biserici-fortificate/en/): A map of Transylvania's 162 fortified churches includes the seven UNESCO villages, heritage class, published opening hours, keyholder contact and damaged buildings.
- [The “Old Man of the Carpathians” is 900 years old in the papers and about 560 by radiocarbon dating. The oldest dated oak in Romania stands 190 kilometres to the north.](https://mariuscomper.uk/cei-mai-batrani-arbori/en/): A map of Romania's oldest trees: 5,703 measured ancient trees with species, girth, county and indicative age, the four radiocarbon-dated oaks and three other dated trees, and the centuries-old tree nearest to you.
- [UNESCO counted 277 points along Rome's Dacian frontier. Only a few can be visited, with a ticket.](https://mariuscomper.uk/frontiera-dacica/en/): A map of Roman archaeological sites open to the public in Romania, including Porolissum, Drobeta and Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, with opening hours, tickets and sources.
- [The Turkish island under the Danube](https://mariuscomper.uk/ada-kaleh/en/): A few hundred people lived on Ada Kaleh until the late 1960s. The island is rebuilt in 3D in its real gorge; you lower the Danube by 25 metres, walk it, and watch it pulled down and covered by the reservoir.
- [Unified Romanian Passenger Rail GTFS Archive](https://mariuscomper.uk/gtfs-feroviar/en/): The planned rail timetable of Romania's seven operators, built on Vasile Coțovanu's open GTFS feed: 2,103 trips defined in the timetable (1,835 run on Monday 7 September 2026), 1,695 stations, a departures board, a map and downloads as GTFS, SQLite and GeoJSON.
- [Transfagarasan: Is It Open? Season Dates, Transalpina Too](https://mariuscomper.uk/transfagarasan/en/): Is the Transfagarasan open now? Opening and closing dates 2015–2026, Transalpina comparison, altitude profile, fuel, the Balea cable car, and what to do when it's closed.
- [Romania Salt Mines: Turda, Praid, Slanic or Cacica? Prices, Hours, Verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/saline/en/): Which Romanian salt mine is worth it? 2026 prices and hours for Turda, Praid, Slanic Prahova and Cacica, depth, temperature, what's inside each, and a verdict per traveler. Praid is temporarily closed.
- [Painted Monasteries of Bucovina: 1–2 Day Route, Measured Distances](https://mariuscomper.uk/manastiri-pictate/en/): Voronet, Humor, Moldovita, Sucevita, Arbore: what to see at each, published hours, service times to avoid, and the optimal route with measured driving distances from Gura Humorului or Suceava.
- [Which Romanian castle to visit? Bran, Peleș, Corvin: tickets, hours, verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/castele-de-vizitat/en/): Bran, Peleș, Corvin, Râșnov, Făgăraș, Cantacuzino: adult tickets, official hours, closed days and the best day trip from Brașov, Sibiu or Sinaia, with measured road distances.
- [Skiing in Romania 2025–2026: Poiana, Sinaia, Păltiniș, Azuga, Bușcat — passes, verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/schi-romania/en/): 5 ski areas compared: 1-day pass, slope count, night skiing and measured access from Bucharest, Brașov, Sibiu, Cluj. Official 2025–2026 prices.
- [Thermal baths in Romania: Felix, Sovata, Herculane, Covasna, Tușnad — prices, verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/spa-romania/en/): 5 spa resorts compared: water type, entry price, treatment base and measured access from Oradea, Cluj, Brașov, Bucharest. Official tariffs.
- [Danube Delta: ARBDD permits, Navrom Tulcea–Sulina timetables, 2026 fares](https://mariuscomper.uk/delta-dunarii/en/): The Delta access permit (5/15/30 lei), car, boat, fishing and photo permits, plus Navrom timetables from Tulcea to Sulina, Sfântu Gheorghe and Mila 23.
- [Mocanita Romania: Viseu, Sovata, Moldovita — 2026 fares and timetable](https://mariuscomper.uk/mocanita/en/): Steam compared: Viseu de Sus (136 lei, 6 h), Sovata (80 lei, 2 h), Moldovita–Argel (60 lei) and Vatra (30 lei). 2026 programs and measured drives.
- [Show caves Romania: Ialomita, Polovragi, Comarnic — 2026 fares and hours](https://mariuscomper.uk/pesteri/en/): Three caves with official fares: Ialomita (30 lei, all year), Polovragi (20 lei, daily), Comarnic (35 lei, Apr–Oct, min group 5). Hours and measured drives.
- [Bucharest museums: Village, Antipa, Ceausescu House, MNAR, MNIR, Parliament — 2026 fares and hours](https://mariuscomper.uk/muzee-bucuresti/en/): Six museums with official fares: Village, Antipa, Ceausescu House, MNAR, MNIR, Parliament. Hours and measured access.
- [Danube Cazane gorge: Orsova cruises, museum, 2026 fares and hours](https://mariuscomper.uk/cazane-dunarii/en/): The Danube gorge with published fares: Orsova cruises T5/T6 (80–120 lei), charter 720 lei, Iron Gates Museum (40 lei). Hours and measured drives.
- [Romanian seaside 2026: Mamaia, Constanta, Eforie, Costinesti, Vama Veche, Corbu — fares and access](https://mariuscomper.uk/litoral/en/): Six resorts, official fares where published: Casino 53 lei, Dolphinarium 74.37, Aqua Magic closed in September, bridge 13 lei. Measured access from Bucharest.
- [Transalpina DN67C: south or north gate, segments, measured times, 2026 rules](https://mariuscomper.uk/transalpina/en/): How to drive Transalpina: Novaci or Sebes by base, 134.7 km / 3h39 traverse with no stops, measured segments, Ranca–Curpat 30 km/h, closed at night.
- [Maramures 2026: Sighet, Sapanta, Viseu, Borsa, Barsana, Baia Mare — fares and access](https://mariuscomper.uk/maramures/en/): What to see in Maramures: Sighet Memorial 25 lei, Planetarium 20, Mineralogy 20, Sapanta with no official fare, Mocanita in the dedicated guide. Measured access.
- [Medieval cities 2026: Sibiu, Brasov, Sighisoara — which, fares, access](https://mariuscomper.uk/orase-medievale/en/): Which medieval city: Sibiu with ASTRA 50 and Brukenthal 50, Brasov with the Black Church 20 RON and Art 12, Sighisoara UNESCO with no official fares. Measured access.
- [Via Transilvanica 2026: planner — 8 lands, gates, GPX, free guides](https://mariuscomper.uk/via-transilvanica/en/): How to plan Via Transilvanica: Maior Putna–Drobeta 1,392.8 km measured, 8 lands with dated GPX, free guides, 3 gates with measured road access.
- [Ceausescu Bucharest: House, Square, Palace in One Day](https://mariuscomper.uk/bucurestiul-ceausescu/en/): Ceaușescu's House, Revolution Square and the Palace of Parliament in one day: booking rules, official tariffs, leg distances, four December 1989 dates and a trilingual glossary.
- [Where Is It? Drop the pin on Romania](https://mariuscomper.uk/unde-i/en/): A geography game on the real county map: monasteries, fortresses, castles, caves and towns to hit with the pin, with streaks and quadrant hints.
- [Hours to Kill at Bucharest Airport? Stay or Go: OTP Transit, Entry, City](https://mariuscomper.uk/escala-bucuresti/en/): For a Bucharest airport layover, compare staying in the terminal, visiting the city or staying overnight. Check transit and entry rules, then compare measured train, bus and taxi times.
- [Where to Drink Romanian Wine: DOC Regions, the Recaș Visit, Tasting in Five Steps](https://mariuscomper.uk/vinuri-romania/en/): Browse Romania’s 35 DOC wine regions, check Recaș visitor packages and booking rules, and follow Cotnari’s five-step tasting method.
- [Trains in Romania: CFR Tickets, Six Trunk Routes, and the Truth About Delays](https://mariuscomper.uk/trenuri-cfr/en/): Learn how to buy CFR tickets and compare six routes checked on 25 September 2026. The guide covers sleeper and bicycle fares, plus the European rules for delay compensation.
- [The Merry Cemetery Decoded: What Săpânța's Painted Crosses Say](https://mariuscomper.uk/cimitirul-vesel/en/): Read the Romanian inscriptions on nine painted crosses from Săpânța alongside working Chinese and English translations. Each entry separates what the text says from interpretations the sources cannot confirm.
- [Carpathian Bears: The Libearty Sanctuary and Field Ethics](https://mariuscomper.uk/observare-ursi/en/): Compare visits to the Libearty sanctuary with bear-safety rules in Piatra Craiului National Park. The guide also gives a preliminary estimate from the 2025 survey and two routes from Brașov; wild sightings cannot be guaranteed.
- [Birds of the Delta: Seasons, Species, and Ethics](https://mariuscomper.uk/pasari-delta-dunarii/en/): See when 24 Delta birds migrate or nest, explore three suggested trips, and read the visitor guidelines. The guide has no current population estimates and cannot predict what you will see.
- [Authentic Souvenirs: Horezu Ceramics and the Ie Blouse](https://mariuscomper.uk/suveniruri-autentice/en/): Learn what to check when buying Horezu ceramics or an ie blouse with altiță embroidery: sourced signs, warning signs and questions to ask at a market. Prices are dated and sourced.
- [The Sulina arm: ten cuts and a lighthouse left far from the sea, 1856–1902](https://mariuscomper.uk/sulina-1856/en/): Sail the Sulina arm as it was before 1868, then watch the European Commission of the Danube cut ten bends and shorten it by 21.9 km, while the shore moved away from the old lighthouse.
- [Who were the Greeks who lived in Romania for a thousand years? c. 630 BC – 1914](https://mariuscomper.uk/histria/en/): Miletus, the silver drachma, the AD 100 boundary. Four chapters and a map that silts as you read.
- [When Romania Fed England: the Wheat of Brăila, 1843–1852](https://mariuscomper.uk/graul-brailei/en/): Ten harvests, two free ports and the 9-foot Sulina bar: how Brăila and Galați came to send hundreds of thousands of quarters of wheat to 1840s London.
- [He has been thinking for 7,000 years. We still don't know what about.](https://mariuscomper.uk/ganditorul-hamangia/en/): The Thinker of Hamangia and the Sitting Woman: two fired-clay figurines, seven millennia old, found in a grave at Cernavodă. What we know, what we guess, and what we will never know about them.
- [Where do Romania's airports fly? Every airport's destinations, 2001–2024](https://mariuscomper.uk/panoul-de-plecari/en/): The destinations of every Romanian airport, 2001–2024, from Eurostat. Luton has been the country's top destination since 2015. Pick an airport and a year and read the departures board; every airport has its own page with all its routes.
- [A day on the rails — Romania's train graph](https://o-zi-pe-sine.mariuscomper.uk/en/): An interactive atlas of Romania's planned passenger-rail timetable for 2025–2026: every line is a train and time runs left to right.
- [When Romania's last volcano erupted, people had already reached this land](https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-in-timp/en/): Pick your town and go down beneath it through a core of time: the stones that fell at Mociu, the Scărișoara ice, the cave bear, Ciomadul, the man from Oase, the Paratethys lake, the dinosaur island and where your ground lay 100 million years ago. Every layer, a page from the archive.
- [100 places in Romania you won't find anywhere else in the world](https://mariuscomper.uk/o-suta-de-locuri-unice/en/): An interactive bilingual atlas of 100 singular places, natural anomalies, ice caves, archaic relics, and unique engineering in Romania with map and documented cards.
- [The oldest city in Romania: Histria or Constanta?](https://mariuscomper.uk/cel-mai-vechi-oras-din-romania/en/): Histria or Constanta? See which is the first attested city in Romania, which is the oldest city still inhabited, and why sources disagree.
- [Romania's mineral springs: Why water tastes of iron or eggs](https://mariuscomper.uk/izvoare-minerale-romania/en/): Three famous springs, three tastes: Borsec sparkles, Covasna brings gas and iron, Herculane smells of rotten eggs. Pour the blend and read the rock in the glass.
- [How many airports does Romania have? Map of all 17 (2025)](https://mariuscomper.uk/aeroporturi-romania/en/): Romania has 17 airports in its passenger traffic statistics. See them on a map, ranked by 2025 passengers, and find the airport nearest to your town.
- [A 6,500-year-old village is falling into a lake, piece by piece](https://mariuscomper.uk/sultana-malu-rosu/en/): At Sultana in south-east Romania, the shore of Lake Mostiștea collapses year by year, taking a 6,500-year-old village with it. By 1923 the mound was already broken in half. The real ground in 3D: the mound today, the trenches, house L2 and its length before the collapse.
- [The fortress with seven corners](https://mariuscomper.uk/cetatea-alba-iulia/en/): From a plane, Alba Iulia is a seven-pointed star: 7 named bastions, 6 gates, 12 kilometres of walls over the Roman camp and the medieval fortress. Build the star bastion by bastion, in schematic 3D, and learn why the straight wall died, who counted 20,000 labourers with no ledger, and why Gate VII is no gate.
- [The gorge that swallowed an island](https://mariuscomper.uk/portile-de-fier/en/): At the Cazane narrows the Danube squeezes to some 150 metres and digs some 53 deep: the Roman road with the plaque of year 100, the face of Decebalus carved in 1993–2004, and Ada Kaleh island with its 511 people, drowned by the dam. Raise the water from the Roman level to today's lake, in schematic 3D.
- [The castle with three lives](https://mariuscomper.uk/castelul-bran/en/): On the rock between Măgura and Dealul Cetății, Bran was walled after the privilege of 19 November 1377, became Queen Marie’s favourite home on 1 December 1920, and wears the Dracula castle label — though Vlad the Impaler never held it. Build the fortress phase by phase, in schematic 3D, then peel the myth off the walls.
- [Where was Vlad, really?](https://mariuscomper.uk/cetatea-poenari/en/): Bran said: not here. At the end of 1,480 concrete steps, on Mount Cetățuia at 850 metres, stands the fortress tradition and archaeology attribute to Vlad the Impaler: a 14th-century tower, a 15th-century building. Climb the steps in 3D, then grade the legends.
- [13 or 14? Peaks over 2,500 m in Romania](https://mariuscomper.uk/varfuri-peste-2500-romania/en/): Some lists say 13, others 14: both are right, but they apply different rules. A 3D map of the 14 candidates shows where the count breaks — Capul Morarului, next to Omu, and Dara, right on the line; flip the rule and the map, ranking and collection rewrite themselves.
- [The castle that painted its legend](https://mariuscomper.uk/castelul-corvin/en/): Bran said: not here. Poenari said: up, on the steps. Hunedoara says it differently: here the legends live inside the court — the raven with the ring, the fountain with the curse, the cellar with the prisoner. The 1409 gift, Iancu's building after 1440, the 1854 blaze: raise it tower by tower, in 3D, then grade the legends.
- [The wall that judges](https://mariuscomper.uk/manastirea-voronet/en/): Argeș said: stone and verse. Hunedoara said: stone and story. Voroneț says it differently: the stone tells its days — 26 May, 14 September 1488 — and the wall shows the end: the 1547 Judgment, with zodiac and peoples. Climb it register by register, in 3D, then grade the legends: Daniil, the lost secret, the airplane.
- [The Growing Delta: Romania's Youngest Land](https://mariuscomper.uk/formarea-deltei/en/): Five thousand years ago this was a Black Sea bay. Fly over the fan, in 3D, and see how the Danube filled it lobe by lobe: three arms, four lobes, old shorelines and a time machine showing the growth — and its braking after the Iron Gates dams. In Romanian and English.
- [Măcin Mountains: Romania's oldest mountains](https://mariuscomper.uk/muntii-macin/en/): Born some three hundred million years ago, before dinosaurs and before the Carpathians, 467 m today. Fly over the 3D relief, climb the eight peaks and rewind time: the Triassic sea, the Cretaceous sea, the emersion. In Romanian and English.
- [The castle that lit up](https://mariuscomper.uk/castelul-peles/en/): Bran said: fortress stone. Hunedoara said: stone and story. Peleș says it differently: the stone tells its architects — Doderer refused, Schultz, Liman — and the light tells its years: 1884 the network, 1897 the station. Climb it phase by phase, in 3D, then grade the legends: the first in Europe, the fungus, Ceaușescu's night, the film interiors.
- [The shell on the cliff](https://mariuscomper.uk/cazinoul-constanta/en/): Bran said: fortress stone. Peles said: stone and light. The Casino says it differently: the stone tells its architects — three sets of drawings, Renard–Antonescu–Renard — and the walls tell their people: a note from 31 December 1951, found in 2020. Climb it storm by storm, in 3D, then grade the legends: Antonescu, Mincu, "the first", the ghosts.
- [Trajan's Trophy](https://mariuscomper.uk/adamclisi/en/): The Bridge said: Apollodorus across the Danube. The Column said: the wars in a spiral. The Trophy says it differently: the stone tells its years — 109 in the dedication, 1977 in the frame — and the walls tell their people: some 3,800 names on an after-the-battle altar. Climb it stone by stone, in 3D, then grade the legends: Apollodorus, Dio, the commander, the concrete.
- [România ta: 3,181 Romanian communes and towns in nine numbers (the sea, earthquakes, mountains in view, hospital, first mention)](https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/): Type a Romanian town or village and see nine computed numbers, each from a different project: the sea, the earthquake design value, mountains in view, the nearest hospital, airport and castle, the first written mention, where the ground lay 100 million years ago, and your antipode.
- [Călărași, the town that bought its own ground](https://mariuscomper.uk/calarasi-orasul-si-pamantul/en/): Residents deposited 250,000 lei in 1852, and Călărași was declared a free town. A 1875 settlement recognised the town’s ownership up to the channels of the Borcea and Gâtul Ezerului.
- [The Carpathians: vanished seas, ice and mountain citadels](https://mariuscomper.uk/arcul-carpatilor/en/): 18 documented places on Carpathian relief, from Hațeg fossils and Miocene salt to the Oase human and Dacian fortresses. Choose two points or towns to see the terrain between them and featured evidence within 30 km of the line.

## Sources

- [Institutul Național al Patrimoniului · Lista monumentelor istorice](https://patrimoniu.ro/ro/profiles/lista-monumentelor-istorice)
- [CNAIR · Dispecerat](https://dispecerat.andnet.ro/)
- [România ta · metadate pentru punctul de plecare](https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/)
- [Institutul Național de Statistică · SIRUTA S1 2024](https://data.gov.ro/ro/dataset/siruta-s1-2024)
- [Se văd munții · surse și metodă](https://mariuscomper.uk/se-vad-muntii/)
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