Travel to Transylvania
Here you can find posts about Transylvania and anything related to this magnificent region of Romania.
February 4, 2021
Winter is magic everywhere, but in Romania, we turn it up a notch. Besides the fairy tale landscapes, fascinating magical traditions are here to amaze you.
January 30, 2019
Many know and come to Romania because of Bram Stoker’s Dracula story. Almost all our guests wish to visit Bran Castle, the castle referred to as Dracula’s Castle as well. Some want to visit, others just to drive by. Do you know which are the possible ways to experience this castle? Before I share those, however, I want to clarify […]
July 31, 2018
Story by Warren Singh-Bartlett One of the most visually distinctive features of Transylvania’s Siebenbürgen (Seven Fortresses) are the guild towers that line their citadel walls. Sighișoara originally had 14, nine of which remain today while Sibiu, the centre of Saxon Transylvania and the region’s most important citadel, had a whopping 40 towers, each built, manned and maintained by one of […]
March 16, 2018
By Warren Singh-Bartlett If Transylvania’s Saxon churches, with their thick walls topped by towers, look a little like fortresses, that’s because in part, they were. Subjected to repeated invasion by the Mongols and later, the Ottomans, Saxon villagers fortified their churches, making them defensible and the larger ones even had rooms set aside for villagers to inhabit during a siege. […]
February 13, 2018
By Warren Singh-Bartlett Remember the legend of the Pied Piper? In 1284, the people of Hamelin, a town in the German province of Lower Saxony, hired a rat-catcher to help them with an infestation. Enchanting the rats with his music, the piper was able to lure them into a nearby river, drowning them. Possibly deciding the solution had been too […]
January 24, 2018
How to get up close to Europe’s magnificent megafauna If you want to see a bear in the wild in Europe, your best bet is to journey to the Carpathians. 60% of all the bears in Europe live in the region, along with wild boar, deer, foxes and other fascinating fauna like wolf and lynx. But at around 1,500 kilometres […]
