Insight Guides - Insight Guides Romania (Travel Guide with Free eBook)

How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Romania, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Romania. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Romania are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Romania. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

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Romanias Top 10 Attractions

Top Attraction 1

Danube Delta. Where the mighty Danube finally ends its journey is home to all manner of fantastic birdlife over 300 species in fact. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 2

Sibiu. A seductive labyrinth of cobbled piazzas, pretty churches and medieval arches, this ancient Saxon settlement rates as Romanias most appealing city. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Painted Monasteries. These 16th-century masterpieces of religious art and architecture, such as those at Sucevia and Vorone, never fail to inspire. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

Fgra Mountains. Outdoor types will love the superb network of trails running through the Fgra Mountains, which harbour more than 70 lakes and Romanias highest peaks. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 5

Wooden churches, Maramure. Scattered around one of Europes most remote corners, these evocative structures are distinguished by their steeply sloping shingle roofs and slender bell towers; those at Surdeti and Brsana are probably the finest. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 6

Merry Cemetery. Seek out these colourful headstones on which the lives of the deceased are painted in Nave style a wry smile is guaranteed at every turn. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Transfgran Highway. If you only manage one road trip, make it the 90km (56-mile) -long Transfgran, which snakes its way spectacularly across the southern Carpathians, reaching a high point of 2,042 metres (6,700 ft). For more information, .

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Top Attraction 8

Bear and wolf tracking. There are plenty of opportunities to see these magnificent animals in the wild, and while youre much less likely to catch sight of the elusive wolf, youll have tremendous fun trying to track them down. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 9

Corvin Castle, Hunedoara. An immense fortress, with all the attendant turrets and spikes, Corvin Castle looks every inch the Gothic masterpiece it was intended to be. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 10

Bucharest. It has its detractors, but the Romanian capital now ranks among Eastern Europes most invigorating cities, courtesy of some compelling museums and pulsating nightlife. For more information, .

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Editors Choice

The Iron Gates, a series of gorges formed by the Danube.

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