Guild Towers

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Whether you’re a reader of glossy magazines or not, you must have, at least once, seen the face of this gorgeous Romanian model on billboards, on the cover of magazines or on TV. At just 25, Andreea Diaconu is frequently featured in Vogue, and she is the face of Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and Belstaff. […]

During her time in Romania, our very own Giulia fell in love with everything around her. Read all about her experience and see why, once here, you will fall in love with Romania as well. What has Romania to offer to tourists? Why somebody who has travelled all over the world, who’s seen so many […]