Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Profits support a local orphanage. There are also a couple of ATMs in the main town of
Sovata itself.
A few minutes walk from Lacu Ursu,
Villa Sara
( 0265-570 159;
www.vilasara.ro
;
Str Trandafirilor 86; r 170 lei;
)
is a cosy place to stay. Opposite the blackened
church.
Five minibuses daily connect Sovata with Odorheiu Secuiesc (11 lei, one hour).
Târgu Mureş
POP 140, 674
Lively Târgu Mureş, with its nearly even Hungarian and Romanian populations, as well as
a sizeable Roma population, offers a different slice of Transylvania past and present.
Buildings in its centre sport a more colourful, even flamboyant, Habsburg spirit, with tiled
rooftops of government buildings jutting over heroic statues and floral paint jobs.
Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely in Hungarian, Neumarkt in German) was first documen-
ted as 'Novum Forum Sicolorum' in 1322. It developed as a leading garrison town and
later as an important cultural and academic centre. In 1658 it was attacked by Turks, who
captured 3000 inhabitants and transported them back to Istanbul as slave labour.
