Attractions Sightseeing
THE RETHESE MOUNTAINS
Located on the southwestern tip of Transylvania, Retezat is not as popular, like the Fagaras Mountains. Maybe thanks to a certain isolation and because of the less extensive accommodation facilities, it attracts rather lovers of wild backwoods and untouched hand. …
FOGARASKIE MOUNTAINS
In summer, in the Fagaras Mountains (Fagaras Mountains), belonging to the Southern Carpathians, relatively few attract, but avid tourists with backpacks, to admire the most picturesque trails in the whole country. Six peaks exceed the height 2500 m, …
SYBINSybin (91 thousand. residents; rum. Sibiu, not M. Hermannstadt, hungary. Na-gyszeben) just far enough away from the beaten track, so that crowds of tourists do not come here, which sometimes haunt Brasov. Cibinium, founded in the 12th century. …
Legendary Sarmisegetuza
To the east of Hunedoara are the Sebes Mountains – poorly developed and populated, and difficult to access, though not very high. It is easy to get lost in the beech thickets and the maze of mountain meadows. Only people, what you can come across here, …
HUNEDOARA
Hunedoara is famous for two things – the gloomy steelworks and the well-preserved 14th-century gothic castle. Industrial factories, so effectively disfiguring the area, could have been built elsewhere, but Ceausescu wanted to destroy the symbol of Hungarian rule in this way.
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Contrary to popular belief, the historic Vlad IV the Impaler (Vlad the Impaler), Hospodar of Wallachia, he is not the same character, what the legendary prince Dracula of Transylvania.
The son of Vlad III Drak, the voivode of Wallachia (the devil – dragon) was born in Sighisoara around 1431 r., a …
ALBA IULIA
The imposing fortifications of Alba Iulia dominate the southwestern outskirts of Transylvania (not M. Karlsburg lub Weissenburg, hungary. Gyula Fehervar; colloquial name used by local residents -Balgrad). The first settlement near the Marusza river (Mures), between today's cities of Cluj and Deva, was established in …
BRAN I RISNOV
Sooner or later, every tourist in Romania will see the Bran Castle in an advertising folder or on a postcard (1378). It was built on the route from Transylvania to Wallachia by German merchants from Brasov, to charge a toll. …
PREJMER I HARMAN
Prejmer (not M. Taertlauer) is a pretty Saxon village with an impressive 15th century fortress, in the middle of which there is a 13th-century gothic church. W 275 In the event of a siege, local residents took refuge in cells on four floors on the inside of the defensive walls. …
TURDAIn the round, 30 km southeast of Cluj, was in the mid-sixteenth century. the seat of the seven-hour parliament; today it is a small market town with several magnificent baroque and Hungarian buildings. Above all, however, it is worth coming here for the Turda gorge (keys …