Sighisoara city (in germany Shassburg, in hungarian Segesvar) is a locality with the oldest cities statut from Transylvania (1517) and is situated in centre of the country, at 65 km from Sibiu, 121 km from Brasov and 328 km from Bucharest. Sighisoara is a second bigest city from Mures county being considerate town after its size. The historical centre is very well kept knowing the fact that Sighisoara is one of the few living fortress from south-est part from Europe. This is one of the reasons for which Sighisoara was declarated in 1999 a protected monument being in Unesco’s patrimonial list and became near the other important mondial edifices. In the last time was launched projects for buildings renovation from the city and for the tourism development in this area too. The arhitecture of the city was influenced by the historical past, being builded protected walls in surroundings of the city, in time becaming a fortress with a special importance from Transylvania. The buildings in fortress’ inside mirrored Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque style adding in time the Rococo, Neogothic, Venices gothic and Secession style too. We could remark between the buildings The House with stag (Casa cu cerb), the Venices House – the cancellor living flat, Vlad Dracul’s House. The cities inhabitans and the economical forces increase helped to build of the Church from Hill (an important gothic church from Transylvania) and the Monasteries Church. The most part of the city fame owed the knowed historical person from Romania, Vlad Tepes voivode, named Dracula too, the son of Vlad Dracu, the voivode of Romanian Country (Tara Romaneasca). The created legend relied on the qualities and strange actions of celebrate voivode. The all has the starting point of the exemplary punish which was aplicated by Vlad Tepes and which was overreacted by the amatours of publicity and film sensations with vampires, beginning on end of the XIX. century to present. The Vlad Tepes father lived between 1431-1436 in Sighisoara fortress-city and in this way appeared the idea about Vlad Tepes born in this city. The celebrate Dracula crossed through Sighisoara in the last time of his short reign in Romanian Country (1476). The famous in Sighisoara is the Vlad Dracul House where the voivode lived a while. The turn is another remarkable edifice where could be seen: ceramics from bronze epoch, the ritual dacians vases, romanian ceramics, medicinal and pharmaceutical instruments from time of the famous farmacist Andreas Bertram (1670) and from Maria Tereza time, variated furnitures, fortress’ gate closing machinery, armurs, an exemplar from the first wall clocks maded from XVI. century with figures which represent romanian gods for every day of the week. Since 1992 is organized the Medieval Art Festivals on which are paricipated many guests (over 20.000 visitours in 3 days of festival in 1998) from the all corners of the world, theater, dance, romanian and foreign music groups.
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