Camino de România 2

At a glance

• Start / finish: Giurgiu, Danube bridge to Ruse (Podul Prieteniei) / Brașov, Biserica Neagră
• Length: 372.5 km
• Duration: 18 stages, avg. 20.7 km (Camino Ninja division); the association recommends the section Câmpulung → Brașov
• Elevation: ↗ 2,993 m / ↘ 2,424 m — net 570 m uphill, almost all of it between Târgoviște and Șirnea
• Highest point: 1,211 m between Ciocanu and Șirnea in the Rucăr-Bran corridor; lowest point 14 m on the Danube
• Stages: 18 — Camino Ninja system; the association divides by county sections (Camino Argeș 37.37 km, Camino Brașov 56.68 km)
• Landscape: Danube bank, Câmpia Română (Wallachian Plain), Bucharest city area, Subcarpathians around Târgoviște and Câmpulung, Rucăr-Bran pass between Piatra Craiului and Bucegi, Burzenland
• Waymarking: yellow arrow and shell — largely waymarked from Câmpulung to Brașov (campaigns 2022–2025); Giurgiu–Târgoviște unmarked, GPS essential
• Traces of St James: Bărăția „Sfântul Iacob" in Câmpulung (13th c., gravestone 1300); statue of St James in pilgrim's habit on the Biserica Neagră; vanished St James chapel on Sprenghi hill near St Bartholomew's, Brașov
• Accommodation: no hostel network; parish hostel Casa Genoveva in Câmpulung Muscel and Albergue Casa Mărioara in Șirnea (since 2023), otherwise guesthouses and parish houses
• Connecting routes: Camino de România 1 in Brașov; Camino de România 4 branches off at Potlogi
• Connection to Santiago: none — beyond the Danube in Bulgaria no Way of St James continues
• Best time: May to June and September to October; the plain is hot and shadeless in high summer, the pass snowy in winter

Overview

This route begins at a bridge beyond which no route waits, and ends at a statue that is already there. The Danube bridge from Giurgiu to Ruse, 2,223 metres of steel from 1954, has footways on both sides and since 1 January 2025 no routine checks — but in Bulgaria there is no Way of St James that would arrive here. So you walk north: 203 kilometres of plain via the monastery of Comana, founded by Vlad Țepeș in 1461, straight through București, where the association is based, past the two palaces that Constantin Brâncoveanu began in 1698 at Mogoșoaia and Potlogi, into the old capital Târgoviște with the Chindia Tower. Then the land rises and the route becomes a route: in Câmpulung, the first capital of Wallachia, stands the Bărăția, a 13th-century St James church, and beneath its altar lies the oldest dated gravestone in the country: „Hic sepultus est comes Laurencius de Longo-Campo, pie memorie, anno Domini MCCC." From here the Rucăr-Bran corridor leads between Piatra Craiului and Bucegi up to 1,211 metres, past Romania's first tourist village Șirnea, beneath the castle of Bran to Brașov, where on the outside of the Biserica Neagră stands a St James with shell and staff.

Frankly, half of this route is not yet a route. Between Giurgiu and Târgoviște there is no waymarking, no GPX track from the association, no St James dedication; that is a corridor you walk with your own planning. From Câmpulung, by contrast, volunteers have waymarked year after year since 2022 — almost always around 25 July, St James's Day — and on 25 July 2023 they opened the first hostel of the Romanian Camino in Șirnea, the Casa Mărioara. That the route is old we know from two Germans: Peter Sparnau and Ulrich von Tennstädt returned from Jerusalem in 1385 and noted „dy Langeowe" — Langenau, Câmpulung — and „Krone", Kronstadt, then Hermannstadt, Klausenburg, Wardein, Ofen, Vienna, Prague. They were Jerusalem pilgrims, not Santiago pilgrims, and this route does not lead to Santiago today either. But it follows a line that somebody wrote down in 1385.

Other names

The route is called Camino de România 2 — the numbering of the seven Romanian Caminos is agreed with the operating association, with whom we show these pages in cooperation. On its website the association organises its waymarking work by county: Camino Argeș (37.37 km) and Camino Brașov (56.68 km, according to the GPX file from the Argeș/Brașov county border) are the two published sections on this route, 94 kilometres together — our route data give 94.9 for Câmpulung–Brașov kilometres — since the association's cleaned-up track (September 2026), association and map agree here. The association recommends exactly this section, Câmpulung Muscel → Brașov, as the way in.

In the wider sense the route is part of the Camino de România, the roughly 2,526-kilometre Romanian network that connects via Brașov to the Camino de România 1 and thus to the axis towards Oradea. The corridor it uses in the Carpathians has been called Culoarul Rucăr-Bran for centuries, with the customs post Vama Branului — the trade route between Wallachia and Transylvania on which „negustorii români în căruțele lor cu vârf încărcate" travelled from Câmpulung to Kronstadt. And the German name of Câmpulung, Langenau, appears in the travel account of 1385 as „dy Langeowe".

Who it's for – and who it's not for

Ideal if you walk the waymarked part: Câmpulung–Brașov, five stages, 94.9 kilometres, with a St James church and a parish hostel at the start, a hostel in the middle and a statue of St James at the finish — the only section of the Romanian network that works like a Camino today. Ideal if you want Carpathians without high-mountain risk: the Rucăr-Bran corridor is a pass at 1,211 metres between two limestone massifs, with villages, buses and beds. Ideal if princely courts interest you — Câmpulung, Târgoviște and Bucharest were successively capitals of Wallachia, and two Brâncoveanu palaces lie two days apart. And ideal if you want to walk the whole chain: in Brașov you meet the Camino de România 1 and can continue to the Hungarian border.

Frankly, though, it is not for you if you expect the Danube to be a beginning: beyond the bridge there is no Bulgarian Way of St James, and 203 kilometres of Wallachian Plain to Târgoviște are unmarked, flat, shadeless in summer and without a single trace of St James — a corridor you walk with your own map and your own search for lodging. Not for you if you need hostels: there are exactly two, in Câmpulung and in Șirnea — both in the last quarter of the route. Not for you if you dislike crossing Bucharest on foot — 32 kilometres of city from Berceni to Mogoșoaia are part of it. And not for you if you believe the Camino de România 2 leads to Santiago: it leads to Brașov, and the 4,500 kilometres on the marker in Iași are a programme, not infrastructure. Gaps like these you plan away beforehand, not on the way.

Route & landscape

You start in Giurgiu at the Romanian end of the Danube bridge, beneath the clock tower of 1771, and walk north across the plain: via Oinacu and Băneasa to the monastery of Comana, founded by Vlad Țepeș in 1461 as a fortified monastery — 61 by 55 metres of walls with five towers, an „adevărată cetate de câmpie" —, then via Colibași and Berceni into the capital. You cross București from south to north-west, past the association's headquarters, and leave the city at the palace of Mogoșoaia (1698–1702, Brâncoveanu style). Via Buftea and Joița you reach Potlogi — or rather, you pass it: the second Brâncoveanu palace of 1698 lies a good kilometre off the track, and this is where Camino de România 4 branches off; on via Titu and Produlești to Târgoviște, capital of Wallachia from 1418 to 1659, with the princely court and the Chindia Tower of Vlad III. Up to here everything is flat: 203 kilometres, the lowest point at 14 metres, farm tracks, village roads, sun.

Beyond Târgoviște the Subcarpathians begin: Șotânga, Tătărani, Cetățeni with its rock settlement, inhabited from the 2nd century BC to the 15th century AD, Stoenești — and then the first real climb of the route: the track leaves the Dâmbovița valley and rises to 807 metres at Fântânea before dropping into Câmpulung, the first capital of Wallachia, with the St James church Bărăția and the Negru Vodă monastery. From here you are on waymarked trail. Via the rock church of Nămăești and Gura Pravăț to Rucăr, up through the Dâmbovicioara gorge to Ciocanu and Șirnea, Romania's first tourist village (1968), with the hostel Casa Mărioara — between the two villages lies the highest point of the route, 1,211 metres. Then down via Cheia and Moeciu beneath the castle of Bran, via Predeluț to Zărnești at the gateway to the Piatra Craiului, through Vulcan to the fortified church of Cristian — and into Brașov: St Bartholomew's (1223), Strada Lungă, Piața Sfatului, Biserica Neagră. Surface: farm tracks and asphalt in the plain, village and national roads in the corridor, meadow and forest paths around Fântânea and Șirnea.

Stages, terrain & difficulty

We divide the route into 18 stages averaging 20.7 kilometres — Camino Ninja system, because the association publishes no daily stages, only two county sections with GPX (Camino Argeș 37.37 km, Camino Brașov 56.68 km) and the recommendation to walk Câmpulung–Brașov. The kilometres come from the Camino Ninja map, calibrated exactly to the 372.5 kilometres of our route data — the cleaned-up track the association delivered to us in September 2026; the old version, with its loops, measured 423.1 kilometres. For the Carpathian part our data now give 94.9 kilometres, the association 94 — association and map agree. Difficulty: stages 1–10 are level, stages 11–18 carry almost all 2,993 metres of ascent, the highest point is at 1,211 metres.

1. Giurgiu – Băneasa (25.8 km) — Danube bridge, clock tower 1771, Oinacu, Braniștea, Gostinu; plain.
2. Băneasa – Comana (21.7 km) — Mihai Bravu; Comana monastery (1461, Vlad Țepeș), nature park.
3. Comana – Berceni (23.9 km) — Gostinari-Văcărești, Colibași, Câmpurelu, Dobreni; outskirts of București.
4. Berceni – București (17.4 km) — Entry into the capital; seat of the association.
5. București – Buftea (20.6 km) — City crossing, Mogoșoaia palace (1698–1702), Buciumeni.
6. Buftea – Brezoaia (22.3 km) — Săbăreni, Joița, Cosoba.
7. Brezoaia – Potlogi (17.5 km) — Poiana, Românești; Brâncoveanu palace of Potlogi (1698) a good kilometre off the track; junction with Camino de România 4.
8. Potlogi – Titu (16.6 km) — Pitaru, Odobești, Sălcuța.
9. Titu – Perșinari (19.3 km) — Fusea, Hagioaica, Produlești, Broșteni, Gura Șuții.
10. Perșinari – Târgoviște (17.7 km) — Văcărești; princely court, Chindia Tower.
11. Târgoviște – Tătărani (27.2 km) — Teiș, Șotânga, Gheboieni; start of the Subcarpathians. Longest stage.
12. Tătărani – Cetățeni (25.0 km) — Izvoarele, Priboiu, Dragodănești, Aninoșani, Cândești Vale, Oncești, Capu Coastei, Lăicăi; rock settlement, Cetățuia Negru Vodă monastery.
13. Cetățeni – Câmpulung (22.6 km) — Valea Cetățuia, Cotenești, Stoenești; climb over Fântânea to 807 m, Valea Rumâneștilor; Bărăția „Sfântul Iacob“, gravestone of 1300; parish hostel Casa Genoveva. Waymarked from here.
14. Câmpulung – Rucăr (23.9 km) — Valea Mare Pravăț, rock church of Nămăești, Gura Pravăț, Valea Caselor; waymarked 2023–2025.
15. Rucăr – Șirnea (14.0 km) — Podu Dâmboviței, Dâmbovicioara gorge, Ciocanu; highest point 1,211 m; hostel Casa Mărioara.
16. Șirnea – Zărnești (22.0 km) — Cheia, Moeciu de Jos, Moeciu; Bran Castle; Predeluț; Piatra Craiului.
17. Zărnești – Cristian (20.4 km) — Vulcan; fortified church of Cristian; Libearty Bear Sanctuary near Zărnești as a side trip.
18. Cristian – Brașov (14.6 km) — St Bartholomew's, Strada Lungă, Piața Sfatului, Biserica Neagră.

Two things are hard here, and neither has to do with metres of ascent: the plain and the city. Ten stages of Câmpia Română in high summer mean heat without shade, farm tracks without waymarks and villages without a guesthouse — you plan every night in advance, often through the village hall. Bucharest you cross in a day; the route is not marked there, the association's line runs from Berceni to Mogoșoaia. In the corridor everything is easier: buses every 30 minutes between Brașov and Bran, guesthouses in every village, waymarks since 2022; the toughest kilometres are the climb over Fântânea before Câmpulung and the Dâmbovicioara gorge up to Șirnea. If you have only a week, start in Câmpulung — the association says so itself.

Two Germans wrote down in 1385 where this route runs

On the Sunday after 15 August 1385, two men from the Empire set out from Venice for Jerusalem, Peter Sparnau and Ulrich von Tennstädt. On the way back they chose not the sea but the land north of the Danube, and one of them wrote down where they passed: „dar noch in dy Langeowe, do ist Sancte Andrewes fus lyphafftig. Dar noch rethe wir kern Krone in daz Wortze lant." Langenau is Câmpulung, Krone is Kronstadt, the Wortze lant is Wallachia. Then: „in Sobin borgen obir eyn wassir, daz heyset der Alte, und quamen in eyne stad, dy heyst dy Hermestad" — across the Olt to Hermannstadt, on „zcu der Closterburg", Klausenburg, „keyn Wordin", Wardein, „keyn Ofin, von Ofin ken Wyne, von Wyne keyn Prage". That is, place by place, the Camino de România 2 and then the Camino de România 1 to Oradea. Ion Nicolae, president of the operating association, cites this text as the core evidence that the corridor he waymarks today was once walked. Frankly, the two were Jerusalem pilgrims, not Santiago pilgrims — what is attested is the route, not the destination. But the route is enough.

For what they saw in „dy Langeowe" still stands. The Bărăția of Câmpulung, Roman Catholic church „Sfântul Iacob", is the oldest documented church in Wallachia, founded in the 13th century by Dominicans, later run by Franciscans — hence the name, from Hungarian barát, brother. Beneath its altar lies a gravestone with the inscription „Hic sepultus est comes Laurencius de Longo-Campo, pie memorie, anno Domini MCCC." — the oldest dated stone in Wallachia and the first written mention of the town, in the language in which pilgrim documents were written: de Longo-Campo, from the Long Field. The church burned in 1737 under Ottoman troops, was rebuilt in 1760, the choir is Gothic with ribbed vaults, the tower dates from 1730. On 25 July 2023, St James's Day, the association celebrated the patronal Mass here, held its general assembly and on the same day opened the first hostel of the Romanian Camino in Șirnea — a day on which a corridor became a route. Câmpulung was the first capital of Wallachia until Curtea de Argeș replaced it in the 14th century; in 1635 Matei Basarab brought a printing press to the town.

And at the end stands the St James the association means when it speaks of evidence: „statuia apostolului Iacob, în postura de pelerin, statuie aflată în exteriorul Bisericii Negre" — the apostle in pilgrim's habit on the outside of the Black Church of Brașov. Frankly, in between there is a gap the association names itself: the St James chapel on Sprenghi hill near St Bartholomew's church „a ființat" — existed, past tense. It has vanished, and the association's line through Brașov passes exactly there, the Biserica Bartolomeu of 1223, the oldest building in the city. In Bran the museum holds a statue of St James from the possessions of Queen Marie, „believed to have been a gift from a pilgrim returning from Santiago" — tradition, not evidence. And in Bucharest the association negotiated on 9 February 2022 at the Nunciature over a statue of St James on Piața Spaniei — it does not stand yet. This route has a statue that is there, a chapel that is gone, and a statue that is missing. And a text from 1385 that says people walked here once before.

Highlights along the way

• Giurgiu and the Danube bridge — town of Genoese merchants (14th c., first mention 1395), clock tower of 1771; Podul Prieteniei to Ruse, opened 20 June 1954, 2,223 m, two decks, footways on both sides, no routine checks since 1 January 2025.
• Mănăstirea Comana — fortified monastery, „ctitorită de Vlad Țepeș († 1476) în anul 1461", rebuilt 1588 by Radu Șerban, renewed 1699–1703; five towers, 61 × 55 m; according to Constantin Rezachevici the most likely site of Vlad Țepeș's grave — hypothesis, no find.
• București — seat of the association since 2016, Camino café meetings; Bărăția, the city's oldest Catholic church, of Franciscan origin; planned statue of St James on Piața Spaniei.
• Palatul Mogoșoaia — „built between 1698 and 1702 by Constantin Brâncoveanu", Brâncoveanu style, bombed in 1916, rebuilt by Martha Bibescu, museum since 1957.
• Palatul Brâncovenesc, Potlogi — built in 1698 as residence for Brâncoveanu's heir, derelict for a quarter of a century, restored with EU funds; junction with Camino de România 4.
• Târgoviște — capital of Wallachia 1418–1659, princely court Curtea Domnească, Chindia Tower of Vlad III; admission 30 RON (approx. €6), reduced 15 RON (as of September 2026).
• Câmpulung, Bărăția „Sfântul Iacob" — oldest church in Wallachia, 13th c.; gravestone of Comes Laurentius, 1300, the country's oldest dated epigraph; Gothic choir, tower 1730; patronal Mass on 25 July. Next to it the monastery of Negru Vodă, by tradition founded in 1215.
• Rucăr-Bran corridor — historic trade pass with the customs post Vama Branului; Dâmbovicioara gorge, highest point 1,211 m between Ciocanu and Șirnea; Piatra Craiului National Park. Near Zărnești the Libearty Bear Sanctuary, Romania's large refuge for brown bears rescued from captivity (side trip).
• Șirnea — Romania's first tourist village (1968, Nicolae Frunteș), 1,244 m, village museum with prayer books from 1700, the country's first floodlit night ski slope (December 1968); Albergue Casa Mărioara since 25 July 2023.
• Bran — castle of the Teutonic Order (1211), stone building by the people of Kronstadt from 1377, customs post, from 1920 residence of Queen Marie; statue of St James in the museum by tradition a pilgrim's gift. Admission 70 RON (approx. €14), as of September 2026.
• Brașov — St Bartholomew's church (1223), oldest building in the city, site of the vanished St James chapel; Biserica Neagră with statue of St James in pilgrim's habit; connection to the Camino de România 1.
• Bran, Queen Marie's St James — wooden statue of St James once gifted to Queen Marie of Romania; a photograph shows the queen standing beside it at Bran Castle (association source).

How pilgrims reach this route

The starting point Giurgiu lies one regional-train hour south of București — if you come from abroad, fly to Bucharest (Otopeni) and take the train to Giurgiu Nord, or begin right in the capital (stage 5). From Bulgaria you come from Ruse on foot across the Danube bridge — according to travel information for 2026 permitted for pedestrians and toll-free, 30 to 40 minutes, check beforehand — or by regional train Ruse–Giurgiu Nord on the lower deck. There is no Bulgarian Way of St James that would arrive here; the Camino Bulgaria in the Strandzha lies 400 kilometres away.

No other route leads here on foot — this Camino is itself the feeder: it brings pilgrims from the Danube and from Bucharest onto the Camino de România 1, the main axis of the Romanian network, which is reached in Brașov. If you only want the Carpathian part, travel to Câmpulung (bus from București and Pitești) or to Brașov (train from all over Romania) and walk stages 14–18 in either direction; at Potlogi the Camino de România 4 branches off to the west — if you want to go from Wallachia via Curtea de Argeș to Sibiu, you change there.

Continuing on?

Yes, and the continuation is the reason for the number 2: in Brașov you meet the Camino de România 1 and can follow it west — via Hălchiu, Rupea, the Cistercian abbey of Cârța, Sibiu, Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoca and Oradea to Borș on the Hungarian border, roughly 720 kilometres. That is exactly the line Sparnau and Tennstädt described in 1385: Krone, Hermannstadt, Klausenburg, Wardein. Or east: via Prejmer, the Székely Land and the Nemira into Moldavia to Iași, to the marker with its „4.500 km". If you want to collect the alternatives, take the Camino de România 6 from Hălchiu or the Camino de România 7 from Sibiu.

None of these lines currently leads to Santiago: at the Hungarian border the Romanian network ends, and in Bulgaria none begins. The marker in Iași names 4,500 kilometres — they are a promise of the association, not a waymarked route. If you want the Compostela, you need the last 100 kilometres in Spain; the Camino Francés can be reached from Romania by flying to Madrid or Bilbao. And if you don't want to leave Romania yet: the Camino de România 4 is the western sister of this route — via Curtea de Argeș and the western flank of the Făgăraș to Tălmaciu.

Preparation & practical matters

Best time: May to June and September to October. The plain between the Danube and Târgoviște is hot and shadeless in high summer, the corridor around Șirnea at 1,150–1,211 metres snowy in winter. Waymarking and navigation: yellow arrow and shell from Câmpulung — Câmpulung–Nămăești (2024), Gura Pravăț–Dragoslavele and Rucăr–Podu Dâmboviței (2023), Podu Dâmboviței–Șirnea (2025), Șirnea–Cheia and Moeciu–Bran (2022), Bran–Zărnești–Vulcan (2023), Vulcan–Brașov (2024); GPX tracks Camino Argeș and Camino Brașov on caminodesantiago.ro. Between Giurgiu and Târgoviște none of this — plan the plain offline, most easily right in the Camino Ninja app together with your stages and accommodation. Credencial: issued by the association since 2018, 10 RON (approx. €2), order by e-mail; stamps in parish houses, monasteries (Comana, Negru Vodă, Nămăești), town halls, at the Casa Genoveva and at the Casa Mărioara. Language: Romanian; in Brașov also German and Hungarian. Bears: present in the corridor and the Piatra Craiului — start early, make noise, no food in the tent. The association confirms: you can ask for a stamp wherever you stop — but there are no custom pilgrim stamps like on the Camino in Spain or Portugal; the only stamp made specially for pilgrims is at the hostel Casa Genoveva right here in Câmpulung Muscel. Contact: if you want to walk the route, write to the association at office@caminoromania.org — it puts you in touch with its local representatives, who can tell you about accommodation, the route and everything else; their contacts are also listed at caminodesantiago.ro/contact/.

Accommodation: the route has two pilgrim hostels, both in the Carpathian part: the parish hostel Casa Genoveva in Câmpulung Muscel, by the St James church Bărăția, and the Casa Mărioara in Șirnea (opened 25 July 2023, via the association). Otherwise guesthouses: plentiful in Bran, Moeciu, Rucăr, Câmpulung, Târgoviște, Brașov; thin on the plain — Comana, Buftea, Titu have a few houses, small villages often nothing at all, there the local council or the parish house helps. Call ahead, in Romanian or with a translation app. Food: shops in every village, water everywhere; on the plain carry the day's food, as there are no inns. Packing list: shoes for asphalt and meadow paths, sun protection and headgear for ten stages of plain, rain gear for the pass, poles, power bank, offline maps, cash in lei. Bucharest: city crossing from Berceni to Mogoșoaia around 32 kilometres; to skip it, take the metro and begin stage 5 at the city edge.

What the route costs

Frankly, the route costs almost nothing, and the culture is cheap: all amounts as of September 2026, exchange rate 1 EUR ≈ 5.0 RON. Documented: princely court Târgoviște 30 RON (approx. €6), reduced 15 RON (approx. €3); Bran castle 70 RON (approx. €14), seniors 60 RON, students 50 RON, children 30 RON, combined ticket 150 RON (approx. €30); bus Brașov–Bran 15–20 RON (approx. €3–4) from the driver; train Brașov–București Nord Regio 37 RON (approx. €7.40), InterRegio 68.50 RON (approx. €13.70), InterCity 78.50 RON (approx. €15.70); APCS membership 50 RON (approx. €10), credencial 10 RON (approx. €2). Guide values: guesthouse in the corridor 120–200 RON (approx. €24–40) for two, guest room on the plain 80–150 RON (approx. €16–30), hostel Casa Mărioara by donation, Casa Genoveva by arrangement with the parish, set lunch 30–50 RON (approx. €6–10), hostel bed in Bucharest or Brașov around 90 RON (approx. €18). Train fares București–Giurgiu were not retrievable — regional train, a single-digit euro amount.

Realistic daily budget: frugal with parish house, guest room and self-catering 100–160 RON (approx. €20–32), mid-range with guesthouse and one hot meal 180–280 RON (approx. €36–56), comfortable with hotel in Brașov or Bucharest and restaurant 350–500 RON (approx. €70–100). For the waymarked section Câmpulung–Brașov (five stages) reckon 900–1,500 RON (approx. €180–300), for the whole route 3,000–5,500 RON (approx. €600–1,100) on the ground; the flight to Bucharest comes on top.

Getting there

To the start (Giurgiu): fly to București (Otopeni), from there regional train București Nord – Giurgiu Nord, around one hour, or bus; from Bulgaria from Ruse on foot across the bridge (pedestrians permitted, 30–40 minutes) or by the border train Ruse–Giurgiu Nord. If you skip the plain, start in București (stage 5) or in Câmpulung — buses from București and Pitești, around two and a half hours.

On the way and from the finish (Brașov): railway stations in Giurgiu, București, Buftea, Titu, Târgoviște, Zărnești and Brașov; buses Brașov–Bran every 30 minutes (45–52 minutes) and on to Moeciu, Rucăr, Câmpulung. From Brașov you take the train to București Nord in 2 hours 15 minutes (InterCity) to 2 hours 45 (Regio Expres) or on to Sibiu, Cluj, Iași — the city is the hub of the Romanian network. Brașov-Ghimbav airport for return flights.

• Trains Romania: bilete.cfrcalatori.ro — CFR Călători, București – Giurgiu, Brașov – București
• Info: caminodesantiago.ro — GPX Camino Argeș/Brașov, credencial, chronicle
• Bran castle: bran-castle.com — opening hours, tickets
• Princely court Târgoviște: muzee-dambovitene.ro — Curtea Domnească, fees
• Bucharest airport: bucharestairports.ro — Otopeni