Attractions Sightseeing
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. …
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 in this way. …
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 …
Kluż-Napoka (Cluj-Napoca; 328 thousand. residents), cut in half by the Samosh flow (Somesul Mic), it is also Romanian, what hungarian. Due to its location in the center of Transylvania, it has been an important intersection of trade routes for centuries, which explains its role as a large academic and industrial center today. …
ARAD
Arad (114 thousand. residents) it is situated in the land of vineyards on Marusza (Mures), which, sailing around the local 18th-century citadel, goes further west to Szeged in Hungary. The fortress is still occupied by the military and cannot be visited, but in the surrounding parks in the summer …
ORADEA CITYOradea city (107 thousand. residents), located just a few kilometers from the border with Hungary and 153 km west of Cluj, is the administrative capital of the Bihor County. It is also the center of the Crisana region, fertile plain at the foot of the Carpathians, intersected by the Keresz Biały rivers, Keresh …
TIMISOARA
Tourists often, though wrongly, bypass Timisoara (in Hungarian, Temesvar, in German Temeschburg). The fourth largest city in Romania (334 thousand. residents), with outdoor cafes and impressive Habsburg-era buildings in two main squares, has in …
BRASZOW
Brasov (Brasov, in Hungarian, Brassó) is a pleasant medieval town at the foot of green hills, one of the most visited places in Romania. The local market, Council Square, with baroque facades and nice open-air cafes, with a wonderful fountain, bright marble floor …
SIGHISOARA
Sighisoara (in German Schassburg, in Hungarian, Segesvar), where Prince Vlad the Impaler was born, is a fantastically preserved medieval town situated among beautiful hills. Completely undamaged city walls, with as many as eleven defense towers, steep cobbled streets surround, along which they stand …
SUCZAWAThe name of Suceava (Suceava), the former capital of Moldova, the headquarters of the hospodars, it first appeared in a document dated at 1388 r. Hospodar Petru Musat asked Władysław Jagiełło for a loan of the amount 3000 gold in silver. King of Poland, endangered by …