Pensiunea Mai Sibiu

DN Sibiu-Paltinis KM 15 Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania

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Sibiu-Medieval City-Oct.19 - Part 3

A travel blog entry by newbeginnings

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... was incredible and I assume supposed to be representative of the person lying behind the wall.

There was one particular sarcophagus which was very plain. It held the remains of Mihnea Voda cel Rau, the son of Vlad Tepes. He was assassinated on the steps of the church in 1510.

After looking around the church we headed over to the Grand Square. There are three Squares in Sibiu, the Lesser Square, and the ...

Biertan the Fortified Church-Oct. 19-Part 2

A travel blog entry by newbeginnings

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After we descended from the Clock Tower, we went past several wagons, horses, and hay piled up and I was amazed at the attention to detail showing tourists how it would have looked in the medieval period. Bogdan laughed as he pointed to the trailer that was just off to the side. That's when I realized they were filming a movie and that all of those extra details, were just that, extra. Normally they would not have been there.

I looked up at ...

Following Saxons' trail

A travel blog entry by aga-and-maciek

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... bridge, which is renowned as Liar's Bridge. The biggest attraction had to be Orthodox Cathedral on Mitropoliei Str., which apparently is the smaller copy of Istambul's Hagia Sofia. We stayed in the center till it went dark, enjoying it's slow tempo and observing the locals (yet again I will refer you to one of the photographs which I particularly like and which is a live commercial of BILLA - a German originated supermarket )


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We love Romania, but it ain’t for the servic

A travel blog entry by bakpaknbizclass

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... least 10 minutes. We get up and ask for a menu. The waiter/waitress acts like they have never been so inconvenienced in their whole life (sometimes, we would have to interrupt the wait-staff from their lively conversations while the full bar/restaurant has people waving to get their attention). And there are no smiles. Just “what do you want”. It became our mission to see if we could get a smile--we didn’t succeed very often! But this morning was the ...

Medieval Heaven

A travel blog entry by kateb75

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... gist on how they lived. It was neat that by every building they would have pictures of that building before they took it to this museum. It looked like they still used mills, blacksmiths, fullers, and sawmills in the last 100 years!

Went strolling around the old town some more and I get such a kick out of the street vendors. You will have a lady selling lottery tickets at a simple table on street with all the tickets spread out in ...