Saturday, November 8, 2014
Brasov Food II
My favorite place to hang out. This 19th cent. Cafe was a haunt for writers, dissenters, trouble malers, mooks and students.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Medieval Town: Sigisoara
Sigisoara Fortress, built by the Saxon colonists living in Transylvania who had to watch over the frontiers of the Hungarian kingdom in the 12th and 13thcenturies A.C., the fortress gathered inside its walls Saxon, Romanian and Hungarian craftsmen. That’s the reason why the citadel was named in all the three languages: SCHAESSBURG, SIGHISOARA, and SEGESVAR. More than that, the craftsmen were organized in guilds, each of them administrating a defense tower. The defense walls are 960 meters long, and of the 17 towers there are only nine left, except for the clock tower.
The place where Dracula was born....
The place where Dracula was born....
Fortified Church: Viscri
We arrive at Viscri village to visit the enchanting Viscri Evangelist Fortified Church ,which is one of a series of UNESCO-listed historic churches in Romania, located on top of a hill that towers above the area, the church is ringed by two rows of walls and has 4 defensive towers, one of which is particularly huge, erected in 1494. Today Viscri is home to only 25 Saxons, as most of them left for Germany, following the fall of the communist regime. Many of the Saxon deserted houses were in danger of collapse, though a number of them have been rescued thanks to Prince Charles.
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