Europe : Balkans : Romania : Transylvania : Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia [1] is a city in Western Transylvania, Romania. It is the capital of Alba county.
Get in
By train
There are direct international trains from Vienna (11 hours travel time), Prague (17 1/2 hours) and Budapest (seven hours).
Alba Iulia is connected with Cluj by six daily trains, with Bucharest by five trains and with Timisoara by four trains. Check timetables on infofer.ro
Get around
See
- Alba Iulia Fortress -a massive baroque fortification built in the 18th century, one of the largest of this kind in Eastern Europe.
- Aiud fortress, near Alba Iulia.
- Calnic fortress, near Alba Iulia, an UNESCO World Heritage site.
- Coltesti fortress
- Scarisoara cave
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This page was last edited at 02:22, on 22 February 2009 by Wikitravel user Vidimian. Based on work by Wikitravel user(s) Deni120 and Axi and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.