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In Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe, Sighișoara is one of the few fortified towns that are still inhabited. The town is made up of two parts. The medieval stronghold was built on top of a hill and is known as the Citadel (Cetatea). The lower town lies in the valley of Târnava Mare river.
It is situated on a 120 m high basalt cliff, to the west of the Transylvanian town of Rupea in Romania. [2] The fortress is located on DN13, 70 km from Brașov , on the road to Sighișoara . Following a period of restoration from 2010 to 2013, the fortress had over 10,000 monthly visitors by 2014.
Maramureș (7). Apafi Castle, Coștiui Blomberg Castle, Gârdani Chioar Fortress (Kővár vára), BerchezoaiaSeini Fortress, Seini Teleki Castle, Coltău Teleki Castle, Pribilești
The Fortress of Arad is a fortification system built in the city of Arad, Romania, on the left bank of the Mureș River in the 18th century at the direct order of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa. The fortress today lies in the city's Subcetate neighbourhood, on the former military border between the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire ...
It is a well-preserved example of a small fortified medieval town shaped by the interactions of cultures from Central Europe and the Byzantine-Orthodox Southeastern Europe. It was founded by the Transylvanian Saxons, a community of German merchants and craftsmen. They have lived in the region for over 850 years, however, due to immigration in ...
Escape the summer tourist hordes to the picturesque region of Transylvania in Romania. Tour the most charming towns with this road trip plan.
The town was the fortified area on the north side of the fortress. In the middle of the town there was the bazaar , the centre of commerce. The suburbs ( Palanca Mare ) were, in turn, divided into the Rascian Town ( Rascians was the name given by the Habsburgs to the orthodox Serbs) and the Island (other than the one that protected the castle ...
After the two world wars and the takeover of the communist regime in Romania, the fortress was restored for the first time, but barely, in the years 1955–1956. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2000–2007, an Italian entrepreneur has transformed the decaying ruins into a picturesque tourist attraction by destroying and arbitrarily rebuilding parts of the ...