Romania

By Travelog Editorial Team · Updated August 8, 2026

Romania is live on Travelog with one city, Sighișoara, whose Historic Centre was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999 as an outstanding example of a small fortified city bridging Central European and Byzantine-Orthodox culture, and traditionally identified as the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, the historical 15th-century prince, distinct from Bram Stoker's later fictional Dracula.

Sighișoara's story sits at the crossing point of two things worth keeping separate: a genuine, UNESCO-recognized medieval fortified town, and the traditional claim that it's the birthplace of the historical Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince, not the same figure as the fictional vampire Bram Stoker later invented. Its landmark page is live now.