Wallachia

Sinaia Monastery

The Sinaia Monastery, founded by Prince Mihai Cantacuzino in 1695 and named after the great Sinai Monastery on Mount Sinai, in the Sinai Peninsula. It was the residence of the royal family until the present castle was built, and is now inhabited by 20 Christian Orthodox monks.

Peles Castle

This is one of the best-preserved royal palaces in Europe. It served as the summer residence of the first Hohenzollern king of Romania, Carol I. Built in the latter half of the 19th century, it was the king's attempt to imitate the styles of his former homeland, creating a Bavarian setting in the mountains of Romania. The palace is ornately decorated, inside and out, with intricate wood carvings and paintings of scens form Wagner operas. Tours in English are available upon request.

Babele & Sfinx

We call it the Sphinx. Near it, there's a cluster of gigantic stone mushrooms, nicknamed Babele (the old ladies) . Creations of wind and rain? Ancient Dacian temples? There are lots of theories, but only time will tell the truth...

Horezu Monastery

Placed at the bottom of the mountains, in the heart of the forests, near the foundations of the voivode family - Bistrita of the Craiovesti and Arnota of Matei Basarab - Hurez Monastery is raised by Constantin Brâncoveanu with the thought that it would be a shield against the attacks of the Western part of the country.

Cozia Monastery

Build between 1387-1388 on the place of an old cult building, the monastery had remained, with all its addings and remakings from the next centuries, the most beautiful foundation of Mircea cel Batrân, whose portrait and tomb is here. Near the tomb of the voievode is burried the mother of Mihai Viteazul, Teofana nun, who died five years after the death of his son.