Romania

A well-preserved medieval Saxon citadel in the southern Carpathians, founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1213, famous for its black church, colourful main square and the nearby Poiana Brașov ski resort.

The largest city in Transylvania and Romania's principal university town, built around a Gothic Lutheran church, a Baroque Roman Catholic cathedral and a 20th-century Romanian Orthodox cathedral, with one of the best-preserved late-medieval urban fabrics in the Carpathian basin.

Romania's principal Black Sea port and oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as a Greek colony in the 6th century BCE, home to a Roman mosaic, an Ottoman mosque, an art deco casino and a Genoese lighthouse standing since the 6th century CE.

The world's heaviest civilian administrative building, a towering Neoclassical colossus on the Dâmbovița riverbank in central Bucharest, begun in 1984 and completed in stages long after the revolution that ended its original purpose.

A Neo-Renaissance mountain palace in the Carpathians at Sinaia, begun in 1873 for King Carol I and completed in stages through 1914, housing one of the most important collections of European decorative arts in southeastern Europe.

The finest of the painted monasteries of northern Bucovina, founded in 1488 under Stephen the Great, famous for its vivid blue exterior frescoes that have resisted five centuries of Carpathian weather and remain among the most complete mural cycles surviving from medieval Europe.