🚌  Departure – Sala Sporturilor – bus parking, Cluj-Napoca

Time: 08:30

↓       Cluj-Napoca → Alba Iulia  |  ~100 km  |  ~2 h

 1   Alba Carolina Citadel – Alba Iulia

Walking tour of approximately 3 hours – The largest bastion fortress in Romania, built by the Austrians between 1715 and 1738 in the Vauban system, with seven star-shaped bastions and baroque gates — the Third Gate, topped by an equestrian statue of Charles VI, is the most spectacular. It was built over the camp of the 13th Legion Gemina and over the medieval fortress, so a single tour takes you through almost two thousand years of fortifications. Inside are St. Michael’s Cathedral, where John Hunyadi (Iancu de Hunedoara) is buried, and the Coronation Cathedral, built in 1921–1922 for the coronation of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, as well as the Union Hall, where the union of Transylvania with Romania was voted on 1 December 1918. The walls have been fully restored over the past fifteen years.

↓       Alba Iulia → Plăiești  |  ~60 km  |  ~70 min

 2   Quo Vadis Manor – Late Lunch

Meal served from 15:00 in a restored old parish house, with a menu of local produce, surrounded by orchards and quiet. Free time in the garden and a short walk through the village of Plăiești. Quo Vadis Manor welcomes you with a completely different rhythm from the tourist bustle left behind. An old parish house of more than 100 years, carefully restored and turned into a place of authentic hospitality, surrounded by orchard, garden and rural calm. Lunch here is not just any meal – it is a pause in which locally cooked food, carefully chosen wine and the fresh air of the Transylvanian countryside work together. The kind of place you look for without knowing it, and recommend without being asked.

↓       Plăiești → Cluj-Napoca  |  ~50 km  |  ~60 min

🏁  Return – Sala Sporturilor – bus parking, Cluj-Napoca