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Exploring Transylvania. Beside most famous towns, in Transylvania there are a lot of small villages with a lot to see like Albești, Biertan, Şaroş pe Târnave, Sâmbăta de Sus, Făgăraș or Șinca Veche. Just take a car and go around and you will be rewarded by spectacular landscape and charming places. I visited Transylvania during …
Pearl of Transylvania. Sighișoara with its upper town or citadel full of churches, streets with pastel colour houses, the magnificent covered wooden stair, the sophisticated clock tower and one of authentic residences of Dracula is definitely a must in any tour of Transylvania. To me this is the real pearl of this region. I visited …
Probably best citadel in Transylvania. The citadel of Rupea is one of the most beautiful site of Transylvania and of Romania. Built by Saxons likely on a older fortification has the perfect setting on the top of a hill and its walls are very well preserved. Beside the unmissable citadel also the town of Rupea …
Albești & Sighișoara. Day starts early again today. Bucharest is quite far and in the middle there is still a bunch of sights to visit. Albești, the place next to Sighișoara wasn’t on the list but it hosts a very peculiar church with an incredible roof with written on it the date of foundation: 1265. …
Fortified churches in an amazing landscape. Transylvania is not only Dracula. It is a marvelous land full of historical remains. Some of the most significant are the fortified churches built during Saxon rule. One of the most famous is the one in Prejmer but driving between Transylvanian villages is easy to see other beautiful churches …
A tourist trap and a commendable initiative. In the heart of Transylvania there are two attractions very different from each other. Bran castle is undoubtably impressing but it really full of tourists and, by the way, Dracula was never here. The Libearty bear sanctuary in the nearby Zărnești is instead a lovely place where imprisoned …