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# Craiova

Craiova is the largest city in southwestern Romania, the seventh largest city in the country and the capital of Dolj County, situated near the east bank of the river Jiu in central Oltenia.

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## Every way there

- Sibiu → Craiova 167 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · lei50–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sibiu-to-craiova) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sibiu&to=Craiova)
- Bucharest → Craiova 184 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · lei55–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bucharest-to-craiova) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bucharest&to=Craiova)
- Otopeni → Craiova 182 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · lei55–75 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/otopeni-to-craiova) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Otopeni&to=Craiova)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Craiova, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Craiova](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/craiova)

What Craiova has

- Y Scheduled flights Craiova (CRA), 6 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 29 timetable feeds for this country, 11 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- F Bike and scooter share 2 share feeds in Transitous, not surfaced yet
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

44.333°, 23.817°

Get in

## Getting to Craiova

1. Craiova International Airport Flights from Birmingham, Bologna, Charleroi, London-Luton, Milan-Bergamo and Rome, provided by Wizz Air.
2. Craiova Online timetables and prices can be found here.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Nicolae Romanescu Park A special sight in Craiova is represented by "Nicolae Romanescu" Park, with its picturesque character.
2. Craiova Art Museum Unirii, nr.15 (Close to Prefecturii Square.),.
3. Craiova National Theater Marin Sorescu The Craiova National Theater "Marin Sorescu" is an internationally renowned institution.
4. The Museum of Oltenia It is located in three different buildings that host three different exhibitions.
5. Mihai Viteazu Square
6. Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Demetrius Nice pinstriped church, Romanian Orthodox, though constructed in 1933, inhabits a former site of a church from 1651.

Do

## Things to do

Visit Art Palace. Visit Nicolae Romanescu Park. Football: U Craiova play soccer in Liga 1, the top tier. Their Ion Oblemenco Stadium (capacity 31,000) is 1 km west of city centre.

Eat

## Where to eat

The city has many restaurantes with decent prices and a lot of fast foods.

1. Shaorma La Rond Bulevardul Nicolae Titulescu 14.
2. L'Assassino Strada România Muncitoare 70.
3. Restaurant Il Forno Calea București 14.
4. Red Onion Strada Mihail Kogălniceanu Nr 17.
5. Amandina Pizzeria This is a straight pizza joint with pastries and a full bar.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craiova) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Craiova), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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