Discover unique UNESCO Herritage sites, Fortified church in Biertan, Sighisoara old town, and Rupea Fortress
Start your private day trip in Brasov, where you meet your guide. Travel by car for 2.5 hours to get to the first UNESCO Heritage site, the Biertan fortified church.
The Biertan fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Biertan, Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Briefly Roman Catholic, it became Evangelical Lutheran following the Reformation.
Together with the surrounding village, the church forms part of the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The second site to see is the amazing city of Sighisoara. It is a popular tourist destination for its well-preserved old town, which is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site since 1999.
The town played an important strategic and commercial role at the edges of Central Europe for several centuries. Sighișoara became one of the most important urban centers of Transylvania, with artisans from throughout the Holy Roman Empire visiting the settlement.
The German artisans and craftsmen dominated the urban economy, as well as building the fortifications protecting it. It is estimated that during the 16th and 17th centuries Sighișoara had as many as 15 guilds and 20 handicraft branches.
The Baroque sculptor Elias Nicolai lived in the town. The Wallachian voivode Vlad Dracul (father of Vlad the Impaler), who lived in exile in the town, had coins minted in the town (otherwise coinage was the monopoly of the Hungarian kings in the Kingdom of Hungary) and issued the first document listing the city's Romanian name, Sighișoara.
Rupea Fortress (Romanian: Cetatea Rupea, German: Burg Reps, Hungarian: Kőhalmi vár) is a medieval fortress built by Transylvanian Saxons in the Kingdom of Hungary and first mentioned by a 1324 document. It is situated on a 120 m high basalt cliff, to the west of the Transylvanian town of Rupea in Romania. The fortress is located on DN13, 70 km from Brașov, on the road to Sighișoara.
