A Saxon town of colourful squares, where houses seem to watch you through 'eyes', small dormer windows in their roofs. See the Brukenthal Museum, one of the oldest museums in south-eastern Europe, the Bridge of Lies, and the Council Tower.
Outside town, the ASTRA open-air museum is one of the largest in Europe, with 300 traditional buildings around a lake. Sibiu was European Capital of Culture in 2007.
A spectacular mountain road across the Făgăraș Mountains, Romania's highest, built in the 1970s for military reasons, twisting up through hairpin ben…
One of the best-preserved inhabited medieval citadels in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with colourful houses, cobbled lanes, and nine survivi…
A salt mine dug from the 17th century, now an underground theme park, deep below Transylvania.
One of the largest castles in Europe, a Gothic fortress with towers, battlements and a drawbridge over a ravine, built in the 15th century by John Hu…
A medieval castle perched on a rock at the Bran Pass in Transylvania, marketed as 'Dracula's Castle' because it looks like the castle in Bram Stoker'…
A Saxon town in Transylvania below the forested Tâmpa mountain, with a colourful main square (Piața Sfatului) and the Black Church, the largest Gothi…
Comments
No comments yet.