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logy has an unexpectedly rich collection of North and Central African pieces (including a
2000-year-old mummy).

CHURCH

St Ursuline Church
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Heading northeast from Piaţa Mică, you come to the St Ursuline Church, founded by
Dominican monks in the 15th century.

LOWER TOWN
To reach the lower town from Piaţa Mică, you can walk along the road that goes under the
Iron Bridge Offline map Google map (1859). The bridge's nickname is Liar's Bridge, after
the tricky merchants who met here to trade and the young lovers who declared their 'un-
dying' love on it. If you tell a lie upon it, it's supposed to creak.

CITY WALLS
South of Piaţa Mare, Str Cetăţii lines a section of the old city walls, constructed during the
16th century. As in Braşov, different guilds protected each of the 39 towers. Walk north up
Str Cetăţii past a couple - the Potters Tower Offline map Google map (Turnul Olarilor) and
Carpenters Tower Offline map Google map (Turnul Dulgherilor) - to reach the Natural
History Museum Offline map Google map ( 0269-213 156; Str Cetăţii 1; adult/child 30/
3.25 lei; 10am-6pm Wed-Sun) , which has an average collection of stuffed animals that
dates from 1849, and frequent temporary exhibitions.
Further north, the street curls around the Haller Bastion Offline map Google map . When
Sibiu was hit by the plague, holes were drilled through the walls to enable corpses to be
evacuated more quickly from the city. The bastion was consequently dubbed the 'gate of
corpses'.

OUTSIDE THE CENTRE

MUSEUM

Railway Museum
(Muzeul Locomotivei cu Abur; Str Dorobanţilor 22; admission negotiable; approxim-
ately 7am-3pm Mon-Fri) The so-called Railway Museum is an open-air collection of a
couple of dozen old trains right off the tracks. South of the train station; it's across the
tracks, 300m south.

Museum of Hunting Arms & Trophies

MUSEUM