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Natural Wonders of Romania: The 4 Most Beautiful Places to Visit

4 places in the atlas

The Carpathian Mountains sweep through the heart of Romania, rising highest in the glacier-carved Făgăraș range and crossed by the spectacular Transfăgărășan road. To the east, the Danube ends its long journey in Europe's largest delta, a vast wetland teeming with birds. In the western Apuseni Mountains, karst plateaus hide gorges and caves, including one that holds a great underground glacier. Together with extensive forests, these mountains shelter some of Europe's last strongholds of brown bear, wolf, and lynx. Below are the 4 natural wonders of Romania in the atlas — the most beautiful places to build a trip around, each with what makes it remarkable, when to go, and how to reach it. Best overall time: Summer (roughly June–September) for the high mountains and the alpine road; spring and early summer for the birdlife of the Danube Delta.

Retezat National Park, Retezat Mountains, Hunedoara County, Romania

Retezat National Park

Retezat Mountains, Hunedoara County, Southern Carpathians, Romania

Romania's first national park, declared in 1935 — sixty peaks above 2,300 metres, around eighty glacial lakes scattered between them, and some of the last untouched old-growth forest in Europe.

Mountain Europe
Scărișoara Ice Cave, Apuseni Mountains, western Romania

Scărișoara Ice Cave

Apuseni Mountains, western Romania

A cave in Romania's Apuseni Mountains that holds one of the largest underground glaciers in the world — a block of ancient ice thousands of years old, deep beneath the forest.

Cave Europe
The Danube Delta, Where the Danube meets the Black Sea, eastern Romania

The Danube Delta

Where the Danube meets the Black Sea, eastern Romania

Europe's largest and best-preserved river delta — a vast, watery maze of reeds, channels, and lakes where the Danube fans into the Black Sea, and one of the continent's greatest bird havens.

Wetland Europe

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