Ancient sites in Romania

Discover 12 ancient sites in Romania, including Ad Aquas (Călan), Blidaru Fortress and Cetatea Dacică de la Căpâlna, and more. Each has its story, photos, location and games to test what you learned.

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Ad Aquas (Călan)A spoon-shaped pool cut into rock beside the Strei, still fed by the warm springs that Roman Dacia bathed in.
Blidaru FortressA Greek-planned Dacian stronghold on a steep hilltop, ringed by watchtowers and served by a vaulted cistern built the Roman way.
Cetatea Dacică de la CăpâlnaA forested Dacian stronghold above the Sebeș Valley, where a square stone tower-house once guarded the road into the mountains.
Cheile Nerei GorgesThe Nera cuts 22 km through Banat limestone, past a lake born of a collapsed cave, travertine falls and tunnels still waiting for a date.
Costești-Cetățuie FortressEarth banks, Greek-style stone walls and two great tower-houses on the hill that guarded the road to the Dacian capital.
Dacian Citadel 'The White Faces'Terraces, water pipes and a ring of limestone pillars on a sunny Dacian hillside across the valley from Sarmizegetusa Regia.
Piatra Roșie FortressA cliff-ringed Dacian stronghold where an iron disc with an aurochs and a feline was found, read as shield, icon or emblem.
Sarmizegetusa RegiaThe last capital of free Dacia, high in the Orăștie Mountains, where rings of andesite pillars still invite many readings.
Sona Mounds (Movilele de la Sona)Eight grassy hills at the edge of a Făgăraș village, credited to giants, Dacians and landslides, and never excavated.
Thermae GermisaraA hot spring in a Transylvanian hill where Roman governors bathed and left gold for the Nymphs.
Tilisca Dacian Settlement A Dacian hilltop stronghold above a Transylvanian village, where fifteen bronze coin dies point to a mint.
Trovants of UlmetKnobbly sandstone concretions from a 12-million-year-old delta, known locally as the old women, on a forested crest in Buzău.

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