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Full of pomp and brimming with confidence of a new Romanian monarchy, the magnificent century-old PeleÅŸ Castle, a 20-minute walk up from the centre, is really a palace. Fairy-tale turrets rise above acres of green meadows and grand reception halls fashioned in Moorish, Florentine and French styles, with heavy wood-carved ceilings and gilded pieces overwhelm our wee mortal minds. Even if you're bent on chasing 'Dracula', it's hard not to get a thrill visiting this castle.
The first European castle to have central heating, electricity and vacuuming(!), PeleÅŸ was intended to be the summer residence of Romania's longest-serving monarch, King Carol I (the hand-to-hip statue of him outside looks a little sassy). Construction on the 3500 sq metre edifice, built in a predominantly German-Renaissance style, began in 1875. Some 39 years, more than 400 weary craftsmen and thousands of labourers later, it was completed, just months before the king died in 1914. King Carol I's wife Elisabeta was largely responsible for the interior decoration.
On a rocky bluff rising from wolf-prowled forests perches a gaunt castle, its mass of turrets a sinister refrain...right? Sort of, but Bran Castle, despite its tenuous link to Vlad Ţepeş, is anything but gloomy. Inside it's positively sunny, with a geranium-festooned courtyard, bright white rooms, hidden stairways and a palpable effort on the part of its blue-blooded owner to distance the place from any mention of garlic.
Guarded from the east by the Bucegi Mountains and from the west by the Piatra Craiului massif, its setting is indisputably stunning. If you've a determined taste for the Gothic you'll find the castle is best seen from a distance, its grey facade often shrouded in mist. Creep a little closer and Bran town itself is a carnivalesque gauntlet of stalls hawking vampiric T-shirts, and myriad day trippers who take away from the atmosphere. There's even a 'haunted castle' funhouse next to the entrance, complete with staff dressed as werewolves and vamps who chase you around. Embrace the tack!
TRANSFÄ‚GÄ‚RÄ‚ÅžAN, the most beautiful and spectacular road in the world, was built during the rule of Nicolae Ceausescu, between 1970 and 1974, having the purpose to ensure the strategic road across the mountains. It connects the historical regions Walachia and Transylvania.
The Transfagarasan is a paved road, which near the tunnel next to Balea Lake reaching the altitude of 2042m. The first segment of the Transfagarasan passes in front of the Vidraru hydroelectric power plant, located underground the massive of Cetatuia. Near the fortress of Poenari, the road climbs on switchbacks and viaducts and passes through three shorter tunnels, arriving to the Vidraru Dam, connecting Pleasa Mountains and Vidraru. Passing by the Vidraru Dam, the road continues on the left side, along the Vidraru Lacke, till its beginning. Then, the road starts to climb in switchbacks, passing by Cascada Caprei, till the southern side of the tunnel from Capra to Balea Lacke, where it crosses Fagaras Mountains
Dracula's Castle, Brasov, Sibiu, Transfagarasan and Peles,the Royal Palace
Instantly charming with a maze of cobbled streets and baroque squares undulating downhill, Sibiu, Romania's cultural gem has a magic all of its own. Franz List and Johan Strauss were drawn here in the 19th century, and in 2007 the city was voted European Capital of Culture. In fact, the country's first hospital, school, library and pharmacy were all established here, so there must be a spirit of enterprise in the air.
Most months have myriad things going on, from festivals (more festivals here than any other city in Romania), exhibitions, theatre and opera, as well as plenty of cafes to people-watch in the city's three main squares. Sibiu has a bohemian yet stately ambience, which is perhaps what makes it so appealing; its back streets of wilting pea-green houses with their distinctive eyelid windows (imagine a benign 'Amityville Horror' House), watching a cast of artists, visiting guildsmen and buskers bustle below them, just as they did back in the 18th century when the city really blossomed.
Legend has it the Pied Piper reemerged from Hamelin in Braşov, and indeed there's something whimsically enchanting about it, with its fairy-tale turrets and cobbled streets. Dramatically overlooked by Mt Tâmpa, with trees sporting a russet-gold coat (and cocky Hollywood-style sign), this is a remarkably relaxed city.
Wander its maze of streets, stopping for caffeine injections at bohemian cafes between losing yourself in a beguiling coalescence of Austro-Hungarian gingerbread roofs, baroque gods, medieval spires and Soviet flat-tops. The city's centrepiece square is Piaţa Sfatului, a people-watcher's mecca. There are myriad things to see here, great restaurants and oodles of accommodation.
So pretty it should be arrested; from the moment you enter its fortified walls, wending your way along cobblestones to its centrepiece square, Sighişoara burns itself into your memory. It's like stepping into a kid's fairy tale, the narrow streets aglow with lustrously coloured 16th-century houses, their gingerbread roofs tumbling down to pretty cafes. Horror fans won't be disappointed either, for this Unesco-protected citadel, the best preserved of its kind in Europe, was the birthplace of one of history's great monsters – Vlad Ţepeş (The Impaler).
The area was settled by the Romans, and it wasn't until the 12th century that immigrant Saxons established a thriving trading town here and the citadel you see today. It was later extended and enlarged in the 14th century. Grab a caffeine burst outside Ţepeş' house (opposite the fantastical church with the onion-dome spire); visit the sights of the citadel then wind yourself up for the climb to the church on the hill. Many use Sighişoara as a base from which to explore the enchanting Saxon villages of Viscri and Biertan. If you're here late July, the weeklong Medieval Festival of the Arts is a blast of colour, alcohol and Saxon merriment.