Rockstadt Extreme Fest is without doubt the biggest and most famous festival in Romania featuring heavy metal music. An annual assault on the senses, Rockstadt Extreme Fest invites an illustrious roster of international heavy metal icons to Rasnov, Transylvania, transforming the town into Romania's riff capital for an entire weekend.

The festival had its first edition in 2013, but Rockstadt has been a phenomenon in the Brasov area for much longer in the form of the town’s most popular metal bar catering to metalheads from all corners of the country, as well as providing a stage to both local and international acts.

Where: Rasnov

When: August

UNTOLD Festival is the largest electronic music festival held in Romania, taking place in Cluj-Napoca at the Cluj Arena. It is held annually and has been designated Best Major Festival in the European Festival Awards 2015. Guests come from a vast range of European countries, as well as Asia and North America.

UNTOLD Festival is constructed on the topic of magic, mystery, fantasy and abstract. The UNTOLD story is in fact a fable. The whole design of the festival illustrates surreal motives, available only in the land of the supernatural. Giant monsters, wolves, miraculous flowers are just some aspects among the elements of design. The main venues of the festival are: Central Park, Cluj Arena, the Sport Hall, the Main Square and the Old Town. There are stages near the Somes river, in the Parks and of course in the city centre as well. Still, the main stage is located in Cluj Arena, the biggest stadium in Transylvania.

The music palette is so wide at UNTOLD, that anyone can find the music for his/her taste. It’s mostly electronic music (house, techno, deep-house, disco), but there’s dubstep and drum and bass terrace, also a rock stage, Romanian music and alternative music too. Nevertheless, the World's most famous Dj’s are in the focus of attention. The past years’ greatest performers were: Armin van Buuren, Avicii, David Guetta, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Hardwell, Martin Garrix, Parov Stelar, Scooter, Rudimental, John Newman, Tom Odell, so the most popular singers and Djs of nowadays, creators of leading hits in the whole World.

Where: Cluj Napoca

When: August

Another most famous festival in Romania, Dakini festival is a yoga and wellness festival held upon the crystalline shorelines of Tuzla on Romania's Black Sea Coast. Across the festival's five-day duration, mind, body, and spirit are nurtured by an extensive, holistic schedule of music, dance, meditation, and relaxation upon the tranquil coast.

Elevating human spirit through the connection to nature, freedom, tolerance, and creativity, Dakini invites and inspires all yogis and spiritual practitioners to enjoy over 350 hours of music across its three stages, alongside over 80 yoga classes, workshops and lectures.

Where: Tuzla Beach, Constanta County

When: June/July

Afterhills is a music and art festival in Romania, which takes place since 2017 on the outskirts of Laşi. The festival is based on the idea that art and music complement each other, the lineup being diversified and accessible for all tastes (electronic music, rock, pop, hip - hop, reggae, etc.).

Since the first edition, it has become the largest festival of its kind organized in the N-E region of Romania. Starting with the next editions, Afterhills Music & Arts Festival aims to become one of the most important music and art festivals in Romania and Eastern Europe.

Where: Dobrovat

When: August

The first edition of the Sighişoara Medieval Festival took place back in 1992 and it has quickly become the most famous festival in Romania. Every summer, it takes place during the last weekend of July in Sighişoara, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in Romania.

The festival attracts somewhere around 30.000 visitors every year and the organizers make sure to come up with many different activities for every participant, from kids to elder people. Every year, Sighişoara Medieval Festival teleports the visitors back in time to see how local people lived back in the Middle Ages. For three days in late July, Sighişoara transforms into a medieval town with costumes, parades, historic reenactments, and live concerts.

Sighişoara Medieval Festival does an excellent job of reviving an era which is long gone. It’s the ideal place to be if you want to experience something different, full of history and traditions.

Where: Sighişoara

When: July

The Mount Gaina Maidens Fair, the most famous festival in Romania, is known as a major folk festival that takes place at the Mount of Gaina in Transylvania, Romania. It is particularly a fair that arranges marriages of young guys and girls that are unmarried. A gathering is assembled in which families gather together and celebrate along with music and celebrations, and the boys choose their future wives in the festival.

Not only marriage, the fair gives an opportunity to let people show their talent such as handicrafts, singing folk songs or dancing on them, designing costumes etc. Thousands of people gather in this fair as marriage is a ritual and they also have a chance to display their talent too.

The event, however, in the first phase has a dance competition in which dancers compete. After that, there is a concert of folk bands. Other attractions of the festival are the bonfire around which everyone sings the verses of folk songs in one voice.

Where: Mountain Gaina, Transylvania

When: July

RO-Wine - The International Wine Festival of Romania is the first Romanian autochthonous wine festival exclusively oriented towards premium and luxury wine markets. Each year the festival offers a direct interaction with HOREC premium operators and with people that are passionate about wine from all over the world.

Every year, the festival includes wineries from Romania, Europe and other wine regions of the world, an impressive gourmet selection, masterclasses held by authoritative guests and special events. Wine producers benefit from attractive commercial opportunities, locally, but also internationally. HORECA operators and consumers are welcomed to enjoy the highest standards that the industry can offer.

Where: Bucharest

When: September

The George Enescu Festival (also known as George Enescu International Festival and Competition), held in honor of the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu, is the biggest classical music festival and classical international competition held in Romania and one of the biggest in Eastern Europe. Enescu's close associate George Georgescu organized the first festival in 1958; highlights included a performance of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins with Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh as soloists and a staging of Enescu's sole opera, Oedipe, with Constantin Silvestri conducting.

The concerts are held in three different venues in Bucharest, Laşi and Sibiu. The competition portion of the Festival lasts about a week, and it consists of three different categories: composition, piano, and violin, each with a record number of participants.

Where: Bucharest

When: September

Astra Film Festival (AFF) is one of the most famous festivals in Romania and a major event in the European film community. The festival is located in Sibiu – Romania, and it is unique in this part of Europe. Besides the four AFF Competition Sections , it offers a variety of programs showing the diversity and the current tendencies of documentary film.

AFF Sibiu is the place to see great documentaries, to feel the pulse of Romanian and Eastern European documentary film production, meet fellow-filmmakers from around the world, debate upon major issues faced by documentarists while exposing real life and real people on the big screen, and interact with professionals and with an enthusiastic audience. Masterclasses, panels, concerts, and other parallel events complete the AFF Sibiu program.

Where: Sibiu

When: October

The Artmania Festival (stylized as ARTmaИ!a Festival) is an art festival, held in the Romanian town of Sibiu. The festival, one of the most important projects developed by ARTmania, was first organized in the summer of 2006 and it has been held every summer since.

The main attraction of the festival is the music: rock and metal bands perform in the Large Square (Piaţa Mare) during the first two days weekend of the festival. Major bands have performed at the festival including Nightwish, HIM, Opeth, Amorphis, Anathema, Lacrimosa, Tiamat, My Dying Bride and Within Temptation and the festival grows each year. The ARTmania Festival also features other cultural events, such as: visual art exhibitions, museum exhibitions, film screenings, classical music performances, lectures, workshops and parties.

The annual festival in Sibiu has become known by promoting gothic metal artists or other metal genres, extending its coverage to heavy metal, punk and even alternative rock. Music represents the leitmotif of the festival, closely followed by visual arts, especially photography and painting.

Where: Sibiu

When: August