Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Aristocrat
D2
Shopping
B2
Sights
Most of Sighişoara's sights are conveniently clustered in the compact old town - the ma-
gical medieval
Citadel
perched on a hillock and fortified with a 14th-century wall (to
which 14 towers and five artillery bastions were later added). Today the citadel, which is
on the Unesco World Heritage list, retains just nine of its original towers (named for the
guilds in charge of their upkeep) and two of its bastions.
If you're here late July, the weeklong
Medieval Festival of the Arts
is a blast of col-
our, alcohol and Saxon merriment.
Clock Tower
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(Turnul cu Ceas; Piata Muzeului)
With its stunning peacock-coloured roof tiles, the Clock
Tower dates from 1280 and once housed the town council. Formerly the main entrance to
the fortified city, the tower is 64m tall, with 2.35m-thick walls. Inside, the 1648 clock is a
pageant of slowly revolving 80cm-high wooden figurines, each representing a character
from the Greek-Roman pantheon: Peace bears an olive branch, Justice has a set of scales
and Law wields a sword. The executioner is also present and the drum-player strikes the
hour. Above stand seven figures, each representing a day of the week.
Under the clock tower on the right (if heading out of the old town) is the small, dark
Torture Room Museum, with a very feeble compendium of exhibits. Give it a miss.
TOWER
Church on the Hill
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(Biserica din Deal; Bergkirche; mid-Apr-Oct)
Reached by the 172 steps of the
covered stairway
(scara acoperită),
this 17th- century, 429m-high Lutheran church is the
CHURCH
