English Connection
search  
advanced search
Most popular tours of Romania Our tours and vacations Destination guide of Romania Contact
Tours in Romania
Thursday, 11 March 2010

Customized tours in Romania
Customize your Romania tour

Discover our tours
History & Culture Tours
Dracula Tours
Halloween Tours
Transylvania Short Breaks
Hiking & Culture Tours
Hiking Tours
Etnography & Traditions
Nature and Wildlife Tours
Bucharest and Surroundings - day tours
Brasov and Suroundings - day tours
Wine and Gastronomy
Scheduled Group Tours
Self Drive Tours
Multi Country Tours
Moldova Rep. Tours
Montenegro Tours

Vacations in Romania
Black Sea
Ski
SPA and Wellness
Danube Delta
Golf
Mountains and Nature
City Breaks Holidays
Rural and Traditional Vacations

E-payment
 

Top 5 tours in Romania
Romania UNESCO tour
Dracula and Transylvania tour
Danube Delta tour
Hiking and cultural tour
Real romanian traditional life


Top 5 romanian sights
Sighisoara City
Brasov City
Peles Castle in Sinaia
Bucovina Painted Monasteries
Bran Castle - Dracula's Castle

Top 5 romanian nature sights
Danube Delta
Carpathians Mountains
Bear's Cave
Retezat National Park
Praid Salt Mine

Romania tours testimonials
Romania destination guide
Romania practical information


The city of Sighisoara

Castrum Sex, Seespruch, Segusvar, Sighisoara denominate the same place from Transylvania : the city of Sighisoara. Documentary atested in 1280 on the valley of the Mures river, these city was built by the same saxon colonists which was brought here by the hungarian crown. The city was grown as economic importance and cultural too, and in to the XV-een century we have here a place famous in all Europe for hese economicand cultural life and that`s way many people from Austria, Germany, Italy or France was coming here. Together with them was coming ansd settled here for 3 years Vlad Dracul a son of one of the moust important and famous rullers of Wallaquia, Mircea the Old, (1386-1418) and the father of Vlad the Impaler known all over the world as Dracula.

The city is a real medieval city which preserve the atmosphere from that times and in the same time here will find a former Dominican church, now protestant, a gothic protestant church which have inside three valuable things : the single crypt known from Transylvania, a represantation in fresco of Saint Trinity which does not exists just in another 2-3 places in Europe painted in the same style, and a painted theme very populare in the XV-een - XVI-een century Holy Kinship with very intersting symbols. Another important building wich offer a beautiful view over the city is the Clock Tower and the puppets which trim the exterior of the tower in it`s supperior part.

Most popular tourist attractions of Romania :

Sighisoara City, Brasov City, Peles Castle, Bucovina Painted Monastries, Bucuresti / Bucharest - The capital of Romania, Bran Castle - Dracula's Castle, Danube Delta, Carphatians Mountains, Bear's Cave, Retezat National Park, Praid Salt Mine.


Most popular tours and vacations in Romania :

Romania UNESCO tour, Classic Transylvania tour, Medieval cities and castles tour, Dracula and Transylvania tour, Transylvanian castles tour, Medieval Transylvania tour, Dracula tour on Halloween, Northern regions of Romania - Bucovina and Maramures tours, Danube Delta tour - The nature paradise from Romania, Moldova tour, Hiking and cultural tour, Real romanian traditional life tour.

 newsletter  Home | Tours | Testimonials | Destination guide | Practical information | Links | Exchange rates | Contact

UNESCO tour | Classic Transylvania tour | Medieval cities and castles tour | Dracula and Transylvania tour
Transylvanian castles tour | Medieval Transylvania tour | Dracula tour on Halloween | Northern regions of Romania - Bucovina and Maramures tours | Danube Delta tour - The nature paradise from Romania
Moldova tour | Hiking and cultural tour | Real romanian traditional life tour
© 2008 Visit Transilvania Travel. All rights reserved. Optimized for IE7. Created by Web Experience
choose your language  romana | english