Day Tours of Romania
 

Tours of Romania

Introduction to Transylvania Trips

Will you be visiting Romania soon? Would you like to explore the unique and wonderful lands of Transylvania? We can show you the places the tour buses miss and much more, from Dracula's Castle, Rasnov Citadel, Sighisoara Citadel to Fagaras Fortress and Peles Castle. A comfortable cahuffeured car and your own personal guide will ensure the best site seeing trip possible.

Our private guided tours by car cover all the main Transylvanian and Romanian historical and cultural sights as well as castles, citadels, fortresses, churches etc. Each tour is designed to offer clients the most interesting and full day out being driven at their own pace and stopping for as little or as long as they wish. Our drivers/guides are mature individuals who care for their clients needs and offer the best and friendliest service. All are trained chauffeurs with expert logistic knowledge and an interest in matters of historical, cultural and political.

Whatever area you would like to see we will design a trip to suit with our personal attention at all times. Our vehicles are very comfortable and prices which include collection / return to the clients hotel vary according to the tour length. We ofer one day tours as well as extended tours with the best accommodation posibile.

Transylvania: facts and info's

The name of Transylvania comes from the Latin expression Trans Silva which means the land beyond the forests, due to the forests that surround and cover the mountains. Transylvania is one of the most important regions of Romania and of Europe as well, the place where the Romanian nation was born, and an important economic and cultural centre of this country, being situated inside the arch of the Carpathians.

Transylvania is the main touristic attraction in Romania, having a solid historical background. The history of Transylvania is very old, starting from the Stone Age since when the first human vestiges were discovered. At the beginning of the Iron Age, inside the arch of the Carpathians, the Dacians` civilization reached a high level of material and spiritual culture, proved by the archaeological discoveries from Cioclovia, Ohaba-Ponor, Pecica-Cucuteni or Ariusd. After 1 A.D., the proofs about the Dacians` astronomic, medical knowledge, and spiritual life as well are more and more numerous (due to the archaeological discoveries and the written sources which show a level of culture similar to that of the ancient Greeks` or Egyptians` civilizations). Over 200 fortified churches and Saxons strongholds (Prejmer, Harman, Biertan) are in this region most of them dating from the XIIIth century.

Later on, during the Middle Ages and the modern area as well (the 19th and the 20th centuries), Transylvania continued to be a promoter of culture and an important economic factor for the people here and for the Romanians in the other two provinces, Walachia and Moldavia. Due to its economic importance and its natural riches (gold, silver, salt, coal, wood, and grazing lawns), Transylvania has been an important strategic objective for the neighbouring nations in the neighbourhood since the Middle Ages. Around the year 1000 the Hungarians conquered Transylvania after the battles against the Romanian population and whom they mastered for almost nine centuries. During all this period, the Romanians fought incessantly for their rights for their independence and for the reunion with Walachia and Moldavia.

Attractions

  • Corvins' Castle (Hunyadi Castle) Museum

    The Corvins' Castle impresses by the presence that dominates the city of Hunedoara. For those ones attracted by the Middle Age, the Corvins' Castle represents an unique monument in Romania and one of the most interesting in Europe.

  • Peles Castle Museum

    Located in Sinaia (44 km from Brasov), Peles Castle is considered by many one of the most beautiful castles in all Europe. It was the final resting place for several Romanian monarchs including King Carol I, who died here in 1914.

  • Bran Castle Museum

    Bran Castle Museum is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia in Brasov County. This castle is known as the homestead of Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) and is the most visited attraction of Romania.

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  • Prejmer Fortress

    Prejmer (German: Tartlau; Hungarian: Prazsmar) is a town in Brasov County, Romania. It is located 18 km northeast of Brasov. Prejmer Fortress (15th century) - is the best-preserved peasant fortress of Transylvania, included in the UNESCO patrimony.

  • Sibiu Citadel

    In 2007 Sibiu is the European Capital of Culture (together with Luxembourg). It is the most important cultural event that has ever happened in the city and a great number of tourists are expected, both domestic and foreign. The city of Sibiu and its surroundings are one of the most visited areas in Romania.

  • Suceava Fortress

    Suceava is the capital city of the Suceava County, Bukovina, northeastern Romania. It is sittuated on a commercial high-way that linked the Baltic with the Black Sea. The town of Suceava gained its importance from the presence of the main royal palace which Petru I Musat built here at the end of the XlVth century. Close to the royal court and the citadel stood the Mirauti Church, the first Metropolitan Church of Moldavia, which once housed the relics of Saint John the New, one of Moldavia's patron saints.

  • Harman Fortress

    The Harman fortress is located 8 km north-east of Brasov. It dates back to the 13th century when the Saxons built the original church in a Romanesque style which was restored in a Gothic style.

  • Sighisoara Citadel

    The Sighisoara Citadel is the old historic center of the town of Sighisoara (Hungarian: Segesvar, German: Schaessburg), Romania, built in the 12th century by Saxon colonists. It is the last inhabited medieval citadel in Europe and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, for its 850 year old testimony to the history and culture of the Transylvanian Saxons.

  • Deva Fortress

    Deva (German: Diemrich, Hungarian: Deva) is a city situated on the left bank of the middle course of the Mures river. It is the capital of Hunedoara county in Romania and has around 80,000 inhabitants, including subordinated villages. In Ancient Times it was a Dacian fortress called Singidava.

  • Brasov Citadel

    Brasov, known as Kronstadt in German or Brasso in Hungarian is one of the largest cities in Romania. It is located in the center of the country and surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains. The city provides a mix of wonderful mountain scenery in the nearby Poiana Brasov and medieval history with Germanic influences in the old town.

  • Rupea Citadel

    Rupea Fortress, located on the Northwestern side of Brasov county, was built on a basalt rock. The first trace of the citadel is on a document where the writers referred to it as Koholom citadel meaning the rock eminence. It is said that on that particular rock once existed a Roman camp, during the time Dacia was conquered by Romans. Later on, the Saxons and Hungarians who settled on these lands rebuilt the camp.

  • Rasnov Citadel

    Rasnov Citadel (Rosenau in German), is located on a rocky hilltop in the Carpathian mountains, 200m above the town of Rasnov in Romania. It is 15 km southwest of Brasov and also about 15 km from Bran Castle. The fortress is on the Bran Pass, a trade route connecting Wallachia with Transylvania. The view from the top of the castle hill is spectacular.

  • Fagaras Citadel

    Fagaras Fortress is the most impressive monument of the town, and the core around which the town was actually built. Ladislaw Kan started to built it in 1310 on the former place of a 12th century wooden fortress strengthened by earthen walled fortifications. The former fortress had been burned down by the Tartars in 1241. The fort was enlarged and rebuilt in the 15th-17th centuries in the Transylvanian Renaissance style and came to be known, alongside with Deva, as one of the strongest fortifications in Transylvania.

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  • Moldovita Monastery

    Moldovita Monastery that one can we see today dates back to 1532 and is due to ruling prince Petru Rares (1532-1546). It has, like Sucevita, the aspect of a fortress, with imposing towers and high, thick walls (6 m high, 1.2 m wide).

  • Sambata de sus Monastery

    Sambata de sus, also called "Brancoveanu" Monastery is located on the valley of Sambata river. The monastery is famous for being a place of recovery, comfort and spiritual balm for visitors who halt or pray in this sacred dwelling.

  • Sucevita Monastery

    Sucevita is chronologically the last and greatest monastic ensemble among the painted monasteries in Bukovina, as it has the appearance of a real fortress, with towers, buttresses and watch roads.

  • Voronet Monastery

    The Voronet Monastery is possibly the most famous monastery of Romania. It is known throughout the world for its exterior frescoes of bright and intense colours, and for the hundreds of well-preserved figures placed against the renowned azurite background.

  • Cozia Monastery

    Cozia (like its sister Tismana, farther off, and like the neighboring monasteries of Turnu and Stanisoara), is set in one of the most picturesque of the many carpathian landscapes which are the pride of Oltenia, this immense repository of such monuments.

  • Putna Monastery

    We know about Putna that it was the first monastery built by Stephen the Great (Stefan cel Mare). Moreover, the ruler wanted it to be his place of eternal rest. Thus, like Bogdan I and Alexander the Good, Stephen the Great meant the monastery to be the ruling family necropolis.

  • Curtea de Arges Monastery

    The Cathedral of Curtea de Arges (early 16th century) is one of the most famous buildings in Romania, and stands in the grounds of a monastery, 1 1/2 km north of Curtea de Arges. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

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Tours

  • One day tour (A1)

    Brasov Citadel
    Rasnov Citadel
    Bran Castle (Dracula's Castle)
    Peles Castle (Sinaia)

  • One day tour (A2)

    Brasov Citadel
    Rasnov Citadel
    Bran Castle (Dracula's Castle)
    Fagaras Citadel

  • One day tour (A3)

    Brasov Citadel
    Rupea Citadel
    Sighisoara Citadel

  • One day tour (A4)

    Brasov Citadel
    Harman Fortress
    Prejmer Fortress

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  • Dracula Tour (B1)

    Explore the Transylvanian lands in the search of Dracula's true story. During day 1 you will be visiting Rasnov Citadel and Bran Castle. In the evening Brasov old city will be presented to you. A special accommodation will be taken care of for you at a lodging that is a scaled copy of the Bran Castle. On day 2 you will explore Sighisoara's Citadel followed by lunch at a restaurant located in the home where Vlad Tepes was born and raised.

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Transfers

 
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