Medieval Fortifications Around Sighisoara
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Sighișoara Medieval fortifications around Sighisoara (Transylvania) Transylvania has a long and beautiful medieval history, when Romanians shared the lands with Germans and Hungarians. Here are some standing fortifications. Feb 2017 3 Jonah jauntful.com/MxComan 2 14 4 12 8 6 9 5 11 10 15 13 7 ©OpenStreetMap contributors, ©Mapbox, ©Foursquare Getting there Cetatea Sighișoarei 2 Hetiur 3 Cetatea Saschiz 4 Castle City Historic Site Romanian countryside is not easy to Sighisoara/Schäßburg/Segesvár is a Hetiur/Marienburg fortified Evangelic The Romanian village citadel appears in venture. There is very little and infrequent German (Saxon) medieval fortified town. church dates from the XV century and it documents in 1470. The XVI C church is public transport to these places so you will It comprised of a city wall with 14 is built in Gothic style. fitted with firing holes. The bell tower is want to get a car. Check the precise towers, two monasteries, and living similar with Sighisoara clock tower location of the monastery: they are often in quarters. small villages, so expect to see (and smell) animals and agriculture around. Str. Anton Pann, Sighișoara Strada Cetăţii, Saschiz Cetatea Apold 5 Castelul Bethlen 6 Malancrav 7 Biserica fortificată Biertan 8 Historic Site Historic Site Other Outdoors Church The citadel Apold/Trappold dates to XIII The Bethlen castle belonged to The fortified church was comissioned by The fortified Church is enclosed in three C, before the coming of the Saxons. The Hungarian nobility but preserves the Hungarian noble family Apafi and successive fortification walls, and is fortified church features an irregular Romanian architecture. The surrounding dates from 1350, in a Romanian Gothic testified as a German site in 1283. double space with a massive bell tower. park contains rare trees, due to one of style. Inside a lavish ceiling mural Bethlens' passion survives Comuna Apold, Mures Biserica Fortificata Copsa Mar... 9 Valchid Fortified Church 10 Bradeni - fortified church 11 Archita - fortified church 12 Church Outdoors & Recreation Church Church Built after the Biertan model, this church Valchid/Waldhuetten dates from 1507 Bradeni/Henndorf looks plain on the The double walls surrounding the church survives after countless works. The and is built in a late Gothic style. The outside but preserves some original preserve 7 of 9 original towers. The fortified wall dates from the beginning fortification built from local (dark-red murals on the inside. The fortified church church started as a Roman basilica but of the XVI century. and yellow) clay is nearly rectangular. dates from 1350. was expanded in a late Gothic style. DC24 Biserica Evanghelica Fortifica... 13 Bazna 14 Atel Fortified Church 15 Historic Site City Outdoors & Recreation The Viscri/Weisskirch fortified church is The fortified citadel with three initial The fortification of Atel dates from 1460, one of the most interesting ones, towers was a village dating from XV C, built around a fortified 1380 Gothic surrounded by lived-in walls with around a fortified church. Initially, the church with two XV C bells. The gate functional towers. Visit the ethnographic wall was 7-8 m, reduced to 3 in XIX C tower is build in hone. museum. DJ104L, Viscri DN14 Sign up on Jauntful.com to make your own. Jauntful © 2016.