Our favourite five Saxon Villages

Saxon Cultural Heritage One of the things you most often hear about Romania is that its cultural heritage is a rich and diverse mosaic of creative expressions. There’s even a Culture and History Itinerary on our website to prove it! Discover our favourite five Saxon Villages below. We’ve decided to take some time to discuss […]

It’s shaping up to be a bountiful cultural year in Romania! Our usual cultural landscape, which includes the George Enescu Music Festival and Art Encounters Biennial is much more intense and diverse this year, Today marks the Opening of the 2023 Timișoara European Capital of Culture Programme. Timișoara is the capital city of the historical […]

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 […]