--- title: "Bacău – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Bacău, Romania: Bacău is the main city in Bacău County, Romania. Nearby: Vasile Alecsandri University, Stadionul Municipal, Cathedral of the Lord's…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacau" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacau.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Romanian_Top_Hits_Music_Awards_Bacau_2011.JPG/1920px-Romanian_Top_Hits_Music_Awards_Bacau_2011.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Municipality in Bacău County, Romania # Bacău Bacău is the main city in Bacău County, Romania. ![Bacău](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Romanian_Top_Hits_Music_Awards_Bacau_2011.JPG/1920px-Romanian_Top_Hits_Music_Awards_Bacau_2011.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Bacău · Andreicurpan94 The place Bacău is the main city in Bacău County, Romania. With a population of 136,087, Bacău is the 14th largest city in Romania. The city is situated in the historical region of Moldavia, at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and on the Bistrița River. The Ghimeș Pass links Bacău to the region of Transylvania. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bac%C4%83u), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Bacău 3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Vasile Alecsandri University The Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău is a public university in Romania, located in Bacău. Named in honor of the poet Vasile Alecsandri, it was founded in 1990. 3.2 km · university in Bacău, Romania · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Alecsandri_University_of_Bac%C4%83u) 2. Stadionul Municipal The Bacău Municipal Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bacău. It holds 17,500 people and it is the 19th stadium in the country. 2.9 km · stadium in Bacău · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_Stadium_(Bac%C4%83u%29) 3. Cathedral of the Lord's Ascension The Church of the Ascension of the Lord is a church in Bacău, Romania and is the third largest cathedral in the country, after the People's Salvation Cathedral of Bucharest and the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Baia Mare. Officially the structure is a church and not a cathedral, because Bacău is not the seat of any bishop. 1.6 km · church in Bacău, Romania · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_the_Lord%27s_Ascension,_Bac%C4%83u) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Do ## Things to do Whether you want to take a walk around 1. Bacău Lake 2. Cancicov Park You can enjoy all of this without a regret. From [Wikivoyage: Bacău](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bac%C4%83u), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat Of course you can't leave here without trying the delicious traditional food and red wine from the area. From [Wikivoyage: Bacău](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bac%C4%83u), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Bacău **Airports:** Bacău George Enescu International (BCM), 7 km · Iaşi (IAS), 85 km · Suceava Ștefan cel Mare (SCV), 130 km\ **Stations:** Bacău railway station, 2.6 km\ - Iaşi → Bacău 85 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · lei29–39 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/iasi-to-bacau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ia%C5%9Fi&to=Bac%C4%83u) - Suceava → Bacău 129 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · lei33–44 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/suceava-to-bacau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Suceava&to=Bac%C4%83u) - Brașov (Ghimbav) → Bacău 148 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · lei43–55 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/brasov-ghimbav-to-bacau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bra%C8%99ov+%28Ghimbav%29&to=Bac%C4%83u) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Bac%C4%83u) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Bacău Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bacău. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 670 km 2. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 719 km 3. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 745 km 4. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 857 km 5. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 870 km If you know how people move in Bacău – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbacau&title=Bac%C4%83u&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbacau), and the note gets an entry. [The place page for Bacău](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/bacau) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Romania](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-RO) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacau, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt