Eastern Europe - Romania (Chapter)

This is the Romania chapter from Lonely Planet's Eastern Europe guidebook.

Singularly beautiful, beguilingly simple and utterly fascinating, Romania's urban evolution has had little effect on its predominantly rural landscape, where aesthetically stirring hand-ploughed fields, sheep-instigated traffic jams and homemade-plum-brandy stills endure.

• ascend castles and mountains (and castles on top of mountains) using the Gothic medieval town of Braşov as a base
• maps
• follow the Unesco World Heritage conga line of painted monasteries in Southern Bucovina
• transport
• soak in Sibiu, the beautifully restored Saxon town and 2007 European Capital of Culture
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Bucharest, Transylvania, Sinaia, Braşov & around, Sighişoara, Saxon Land, Sibiu, Făgăraş Mountains, Cluj-Napoca, Crişana, Banat, Timişoara, Maramureş, Sighetu Marmaţiei, Valea Izei, Prislop Pass, Moldavia, Iaşi, Southern Bucovina, Suceava, Bucovina Monasteries, Northern Dobrogea, Constanţa, Mamaia, Neptun-Olimp, Mangalia, Danube Delta, Understand Romania, History, People, Religion, Arts, Environment, Food & Drink, Survival Guide, Directory, Getting There & Away, and Getting Around.