🛏️ Rânca
134 km and 1,600 m up, 2 h 15 min: the mountain escape from a 30 °C city, and the foot of the Transalpina.
Live prices and availability on a map centred on this exact spot — hotels, apartments and hostels, so you can judge the walk from here rather than guess from an address.
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The My Cities collection
Bucharest is 231 km east, Brașov 278, Iași further still. Same format, same measured distances, same honesty about what we could not verify — written city by city.
Bucharest
The capital, decoded — the Old Town, the Athenaeum, the Palace of the Parliament and a food scene that has quietly become one of the region's best. Two and a half hours from Craiova.Open the guide · MyBucuresti.online →
Brașov
The Saxon old town, the Black Church and Poiana Brașov above it — the mountain city Craiova's own Christmas market opens a fortnight before.Open the guide · MyBrasov.online →
Iași
The Palace of Culture, the Metropolitan Cathedral and the oldest university in the country — the capital of Moldavia, in the same honest format.Open the guide · MyIasi.online →
The largest portal dedicated to Romania's mountainsMarked trails, mountain huts, ski areas, ridge weather and webcams — from the Bucegi to the Retezat.Open munte.online →