150 kilometres north-east of Bucharest, Curtea de Arges is the gateway of the Transfagaran mountain road, the second capital of Wallachia in the 14th century and one of the most important and charming historical towns of Romania.
Transfagarasan was planned by dictator Ceausescu after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Jeremy Clarkson called it "the best road in the world" in 2009.