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Top 10s across Romania

Fortified Saxon towns on the Transylvanian plateau, the Carpathians curving through the middle of the country, and a Danube delta at the far end. Romania is large, varied and still priced like a secret.

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Romania splits neatly into three trips. Transylvania holds the walled towns and the mountain passes, and Sibiu and Brașov are the usual bases for it. The south carries Bucharest and the Wallachian plain. The east ends at the Danube Delta and the Black Sea coast, which is a different country in everything but the paperwork.

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The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is the heaviest building in the world according to Guinness World Records, at more than four million tonnes of concrete, steel and marble.

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