Copşa Mică occupies the 5th position in the top of the least romantic cities in Europe, conducted by stedentripper.com. The city, whose communist factories brought worldwide negative fame due to pollution with black smoke, is still exceeded in the non-romantic cities top by Charleroi (Belgium), designated as the least romantic European city.
The podium is completed by Tiraspol (Moldova), 2nd and Duisburg (Germany), 3rd place. According to the Dutch who made up the top, on Valentine's Day we should avoid to choose as destination al Most (Czech Republic), Sheffield (England) Le Havre (France), Katowice (Poland), Naples (Italy) and Almere (Netherlands).