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[Alexa and Jason's World Travels] Sibiu « Alexa and Jason's World Travels: Unlike many of the other Saxon towns we have visited in Transylvania, the historical core portion of Sibui is not well connected with the rest of the city, making it seem a little isolated and somewhat like a detached area full of tourists and upper-class Romanians eating in the plazas.  As the capital of the Transylvanian Saxon towns, Sibui has many museums and impressive buildings within the core. The Brukenthal Museum has nice artwork and has good example of baroque interior and exterior decoration you can view strolling through the museum.  The municipal museum has some roman era carved stones and, while we visited, a large collection of gold stamped coins and other gold decorative items up in a tower.

[The Romanian Revolution of December 1989] Rewriting the Revolution (1997): Chapter 6 18-22 December 1989: The heavy-handed, absurd speeches of party activists dispatched to the Timisoara factories, the tactical withdrawal of Army troops to barracks in Timisoara, Ceausescu’s rambling televised tirade on the evening of 20 December, and his tremendously misguided idea of convoking a pro-regime rally on 21 December and then assuring live transmission of this event to the entire nation, all emboldened the population and made fundamental contributions to the eventual collapse of the regime.

[Music Free] Halloween in Transylvania - Tour for Singles: For us Americans, that was the draw as our group swelled to 67 singles with 140 suitcases in tow. We had two coaches and two excellent guides named Hunor and Radu who were with us 24/7 throughout.

[Romania News Watch] There's more to Transylvania than Dracula: Mayor Funar also half-ruined the huge statue of Matthias in the main square, undermining the foundations with bizarre and unsightly archaeological digs aimed at unearthing various pots and shovels that would "prove" the antiquity of the Romanian presence in the area.

[Museum tours] Halloween in Transylvania - Tour for Singles: We led our largest group ever on a vampire vacation to a land that time forgot. Romania isn’t a top tourist destination, but it was delightfully surprising to discover the unique culture and natural wonders in this undiscovered part of Europe.

[Adventure Tours] From “Caesar’s dream” to Dracula’s castle, over the Carpathians: There is one of the most important building for the early Christianity in this part of Europe .The church was built in the 13 th century on the spot of an older one from the 4 th century, that had its first origin as a roman sanctuary.

[Amanda Norman Graveyard and Dark Photography Blog] Treasures of Transylvania | Amanda Norman Graveyard and Dark ...: Of course, I cannot compare the value of them as I’ve only been on this tour, but if possible sometime in the future, I would certainly love to compare them all so that Dracula fans have a trusted review of which tours are the best value for money.

[Dracula Blog] Halloween in Transylvania - Tour for Singles: Susan Davis asked: We led our largest group ever on a vampire vacation to a land that time forgot. Romania isn’ta top tourist destination, but it was delightfully surprising to discover the unique culture and natural wonders in .

[BalkanInsight.com] On The Raven King's Trail in Transylvania :: BalkanInsight.com: While Romanians see Transylvania as the birthplace of their nationality, and Hungarians insist it is the fortress of theirs’, making it a case of cradle-versus-bastion, there was once a third player on Transylvania’s ethnic stage. These were the Transylvanian Saxons, formerly 300,000 strong but now down to a handful of Lutheran pastors and few thousand oldies, like Sam Hutter, bellringer and practically the last Saxon in his once populous village, near Sibiu.

[TravBuddy.com: Latest Travel Blogs and Travel Reviews] Sibiu / Hermannstad - Sibiu Travel Blog | Travelogue | Travel Journal: . Sibiu became the most important ethnic German city among the seven cities that gave Transylvania its German name Siebenburger (literally seven castles), and it was home to the Universitas Saxorum, the assembly of Germans in Transylvania. Common opinion in the 17th century ascribed Sibiu the quality of being the easternmost city to be part of the European sphere; it was also the eastern terminus of postal routes.

[Kim's Blog] About the Historical Background of Dracula: Dracula and Prince Stephen Bathory of Transylvania invaded Wallachia with a mixed force of Transylvanians, a few dissatisfied Wallachian boyars and a contingent of Moldavians sent by Dracula’s cousin, Prince Stephen the Great of Moldavia. Dracula’s brother, Radu the Handsome, had died a coulpe of years earlier and had been replaced on the Wallachian throne by another Turkish candidate, Basarab the Old, a member of the Danesti clan.

[Us Europeans] Us Europeans » Blog Archive » Destination Romania: It was not very expensive, especially eating out, but we had the pleasure of booking our Madrid-Bucharest return flights for only 45 euros.` Social reasons Maja from Poland (26) and Sarah from the United States (24) came to Romania to visit their friend Constantin (22). `We both live in Switzerland so Romania isn`t even very far away`, they say.

[Prague Travel Blogs on RealTravel] Krakow of Transylvania? - Brasov - Real Travel: Leading north from Piata Sfatului, Str Republicii (Republic Street) is a pedestrian promenade that is crowded with shops and café. Along the street, I found more than one Fioretti Bakery shops, a Romanian chain that sells various types of tasty pastry like mini-croissants.

[TravBuddy.com: mpmurph133's Holiday to Southeastern Europe - August 2007 travel blog] Day 8, Aug. 16 - Brasov, Romania: The train ride to Brasov and a ...: Yeah”¦in hindsight I can see my plan wasn’t particularly well thought out and baseless assumptions about how close the train station was to the center were”¦well”¦ummm”¦baseless and a bit foolish”¦but live and learn and I really don’t like busses (again long explanation).

[TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Dropping off the kids in Romania - Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania: We also had the chance to stay in a fantastic guesthouse with huge, comfortable rooms and fantastic breakfast for the bargain price of about $25 a night. We stayed for two nights, unfortunately changing to a second guesthouse for the second, also good but well short of our first location.

[Brilliant Tips from BrilliantTrips.com] A Trip to Romania: Living in the Rockies, I can be hard to impress when it comes to Alpine scenery, but Romania leaves nothing to be desired. Winding up mountain roads into the town of Sinaia, it’s easy to see why the Romanian royal family of old used to summer here in the gorgeously ornate Peles Castle.

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