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	SIGHISOARA
		Sighisoara reveals itself nowadays too like a genuine city museum offering the modern visitor the rare opportunity to do a travel back in time, in the medieval atmosphere of some centuries ago.
		So, not far from Sighisoara, on the Podmoale plateau, there are traces of a Roman military fortification (castrum) where a cohort of the 13th Legion GEMINA with the headquarters at Alba Iulia Apulum was stationed.
		Sighisoara is included nowadays into the UNESCO patrimony, a medieval European town, whose old buildings are still in a functional state and well kept.
	www.ici.ro /romania/en/orase/sg_1.html (1192 words)

	Sighisoara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in 1431 in the fortress of Sighisoara in Romania, Vlad Tepes was the son of the military governor of Transylvania.
		Zagreb and Dubrovnik, Croatia; Albania, Sarajevo, Bosnia; Belgrade, Serbia; Montenegro; Skopje, Macedonia; Sofia, Bulgaria; and Bucharest, Sighisoara and Brasow...
		Sighisoara, Dracula's hometown, is a beautifully preserved citadel city, the unintended benefit from years of neglect and economic stagnation.
	www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Sighisoara.htm (277 words)

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		Sighisoara has always fascinated its visitors by its picturesque by-streets, houses, bastions, towers, churches; besides, it is the birthplace of a both historical and legendary hero Dracula or Vlad the Impaler.
		In the 14th-15th centuries, the economic growth recorded by Sighisoara’s industrious craftsmen and tradesmen ensured financial means for the construction of a strong defence system provided with 14 towers and several bastions, with gunnery directed to all four cardinal points.
		Between 1784-1785, Sighisoara was confronted with the peasant revolt led by Horea, Closca and Crisan.
	www.rotravel.com /romania/transylvania/sighi.php (3172 words)

	Sighisoara Pictures - Romanian Cities Postcards
		In the year 1367 Sighisoara is named "civitas" (town) for the first time.
		Sighisoara had three curtain walls and 14 towers.
		Sighisoara grew rich on the proceeds of trade with Moldavia and Wallachia.
	www.aboutromania.com /sighisoara4.html (71 words)

	Romania, Dracula, Sighisoara, Bran, Transylvania, Maramures, Black Sea, Monasteries, Danube Delta, Adventure, Hunting, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sighisoara, Schaessburg, Segesvar, "the pearl of Transylvania" in old times, is even today the most beautiful dwelt mediaeval fortress in Europe.
		Placed in the heart of the city, Sighisoara Hotel, is part of the magic tale, surrounded by towers, old buildings and stone made roads.
		He was born in 1431 in Sighisoara, and died in 1476 in a fight defending his country.
	www.ultramarine.ro /engleza/discover_8.asp (1413 words)

	Sighisoara (Romania, Mures) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sighisoara is situated in the center of Romania at 121 km (75 mi) nothwest of Brasov, 328 km (154 mi) northwest of Bucharest.
		This makes Sighisoara to be the first of the settlements in Transylvania to gain the status of a town in 1517, and even legal autonomy.
		The citizens of Sighisoara were also involved in the Peasant's Rising of 1514, and in 1849 they are witness of the Hungarian revolutionary army's defeatt in the battle of Albesti, a place in the neighbourhood of the town.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ro-sighi.html (497 words)

	Travel To Romania \| Sighisoara
		Sighisoara is one of the world's best preserved medieval towns.
		Sighisoara is Vlad Tepes' birthplace and, between the walls of the medieval town you'll find his house, ih which he was born in 1431 and lived for four years.
		Sighisoara has a citadel and within it's walls you can find other importan attractions as the Clock Tower, the church of the Dominican monastery or the history museum.
	www.traveltoromania.com /att_sighisoara.php (226 words)

	SIGHISOARA, Romania - Official Travel and Tourism Information
		Located on the Tarnava Mare River, the town was built by Saxons between the 12th and 17th centuries.
		Sighisoara's charming hotels, restaurants, and historic attractions make it one of the few citadels in the world where life still goes on within its walls.
		In the 15th century, the famous Vlad the Impaler was born in one of Sighisoara's more stately houses; near his house is the Torture Instruments Museum.
	www.romaniatourism.com /sighisoara.html (446 words)

	Hotel reservation Sighisoara - Romania, accommodation in Sighisoara, special offer Sighisoara hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sighisoara, situated in Romania center-in Transylvania province, is renewed by its architecture dating from 14th century.
		Sighisoara Hotel has 29 rooms (single and double) and 3 apartments.
		Wine cellar Sighisoara Hotel has in the basement a wine cellar where the guests can taste a variety of the most noble romanian wine.
	www.adtour.ro /accomodation4.html (368 words)

	Dracula threatens to suck charm from mediaeval town. 28/5/2002. ABC News Online
		Sighisoara is the birthplace of the 15th century Romanian Count Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, thought to have inspired Irish author Bram Stoker's Gothic novel Dracula.
		Its central square is dominated by a tall clock tower surrounded by fairytale houses with sloping, terracotta roofs.
		Sighisoara is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site and campaigners have called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to investigate the issue.
	www.abc.net.au /news/indepth/featureitems/dracula.htm (684 words)

	Sighisoara - Destination Guide - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A forbidding silhouette of battlements and needle spires looms over SIGHISOARA (Schässburg to the Saxons and Segesvár to the Hungarians) as the sun descends behind the hills of the Târnava Mare valley, and it seems fitting that this was the birthplace of Vlad Tepes, "The Impaler" - the man known to so many as Dracula.
		The tower was raised in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries when Sighisoara became a free town controlled by craft guilds, each of which had to finance the construction of a bastion and defend it during wartime.
		Originally a Saxon town known as Castrum Sex (Fort Six), Sighisoara grew rich on the proceeds of trade with Moldavia and Wallachia, as the Clock Tower's museum attests (Mon 10am-3.30pm, Tues-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat and Sun 9am-4pm).
	www.hotelnear.com /3440/3483/Romania-Sighisoara.html (517 words)

	Transylvanian Jorney : Brasov & Sighisoara
		The German presence enriched the cultural and economic life of Transylvania but their presence has declined since the 1989 Revolution, after which the Germans were given the freedom to leave Romania.
		Sighisoara was the birth-town of Vlad Tepes, Prince of Walachia, better known as Dracula.
		Also an old German town like Brasov, Sighisoara is full of twining little streets and sitting in the village squares were old Hungarian ladies in traditional dresses.
	weecheng.com /europe/1995/romania2.htm (510 words)

	Medieval Towns of ROMANIA - Transylvania - Official Travel and Tourism Information
		Brasov, Sibiu and Sighisoara are some of Europe's best-preserved medieval towns.
		Sighisoara, which Vlad Tepes called home, is one of the most beautiful towns in the heart of Transylvania.
		Sighisoara was for several centuries a military and political stronghold.
	www.romaniatourism.com /medieval.html (326 words)

	Carpathians adventure tour. Moultiple Outdoor Activities trip
		Sighisoara is an outstanding testimony to the culture of the Transylvanian Saxons, a culture that is coming to a close after 850 years and will continue to exist only through its architectural and urban monuments.
		Sighisoara is an outstanding example of a small fortified city in the border region between the Latin-oriented culture of Central Europe and the Byzantine-Orthodox culture of south-eastern Europe.
		The apparently unstoppable process of emigration by the Saxons, the social stratum that had formed and upheld the cultural traditions of the region, threatens the survival of their architectural heritage as well.
	www.outdoorholiday.com /SighisoaraMedievalTown.php (437 words)

	Romania - Tours: Sighisoara of 15th Century - the Witch Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sighisoara, ancient cradle of Romanians, is located in Transylvania, in a landscape of peculiar beauty in the Tirnave Plateau.
		The heart of Sighisoara is the citadel around that developed along centuries the other districts.
		He was Vlad the Impaler's father known as Dracula (the son of the Devil), who most probably born here in Sighisoara, on 1431.
	www.academictours.com /romania/rom02.html (370 words)

	Historic Centre of Sighişoara - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Founded by German craftsmen and merchants known as the Saxons of Transylvania, Sighisoara is a fine example of a small, fortified medieval town which played an important strategic and commercial role on the fringes of central Europe for several centuries.
		Criterion (v): Sighisoara is an outstanding example of a small fortified city in the border region between the Latin-oriented culture of central Europe and the Byzantine-Orthodox culture of south-eastern Europe.
		The apparently unstoppable process of emigration by the Saxons, the social stratum which had formed and upheld the cultural traditions of the region, threatens the survival of their architectural heritage as well.
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=902 (216 words)

	Historic Centre of Sighisoara - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		Sighisoara is in fact one of my travel marks in all my past traveling history.
		Sighisoara is one of the most beautiful palces I have ever seen, and i can say i have seen plenty.
		also a good thing to do is to go to the hills the other side of the citys palace and tower and enjoy the view of the old city of sighisoara instead of the new (or at least relatively new one) part.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/sighisoara.html (614 words)

	Sighisoara - Hotels in Sighisoara, Romania, Hotel
		Sighisoara lies in the valley of the Tarnava Mare river.
		In the Fortress Square, on the same side as Vlad Dracul's House, there is the Deer House, whose name was drawn from the stag skull set on one of the corners if its façade.
		In the 12th century, German settlers from Nürnberg, called Saxons, formed a community in Transylvania and founded Sibiu as the center of the region.
	bucharest-hotels-reservation.com /sighisoara.asp (1299 words)

	Saxon Transylvania - The Land of Fairytales (Travel to Sibiu, Sighisoara, Viscri, Biertan - accommodation, holidays, ...
		Crit lies 31 km away from Sighisoara on the Sighisoara-Brasov road on the left of the river Balta Mare.
		The neo-gothic altar from 1899, and the remains of the old one (1550) are the Sighisoara Museum.
		Sighisoara offers a decent range of shops and is equidistant from the Malâncrav and Viscri areas.
	www.beyondtheforest.com /Pages/SX4.html (4012 words)

	Cetatea Sighisoara - Schaessburg - Segesvar Sighisoara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In German Schaessburg, in Hungarian Segesvar, Sighisoara is a beautiful middle age castle.
		In the year of 1280 the town appears as "castrum Sex", only later in 1435 was given, even now used name "Sighisoara".
		The archeological researches nearby the town had brought to the surface tools made of stone and metal used by the people.
	www.cetatea-sighisoara.com /uk (236 words)

	sighisoara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sighisoara, situated in Romania center, in Transylvania province, is famous by its architecture dating from 14th century...
		Historical Sighisoara is willing to remain a highly attractive area for the people of the 21st century as...
		RomTurism - Hoteluri in Sighisoara, Hoteluri din Romania, Pensiuni, Vile, Oferte de Cazare, Oferte Litoral 2005,...
	www.nieddu.biz /romania/sighisoara+.cgi (788 words)

	Marah International - Restoring Romania's Rivers Initiative, Sighisoara, Romania, June 2000
		The Marah International team spent the second half of their trip in the town of Sighisoara working with the Ecology Club established by the Twinings and Dr. Roberta Bustin in 1997.
		Clubul Ecologic Sighisoara operates under the umbrella of a local non-governmental organization called Parteneriatul Pentru Mediu Tarnava Mare (the "Tarnava Mare Environmental Partnership").
		Future plans for the club include the improvement of three hiking trails in the hills around Sighisoara, including educational signs to teach people about the flora and fauna they can observe along the trails.
	www.marah.org /sigh2000.html (759 words)

	Sighisoara Hostels \| Sighisoara Youth Hostels, Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The only hostel located in Sighisoara's medieval citadel, the Burg Hostel is the newest, most affordable and best located hostel in town...
		Gia Hostel is a new, clean, quiet and safe Hostel in Sighisoara-Romania, situated 50 m west of the train station...
		Our hostel is a 4-minute walk from the train station in Sighisoara and the perfect base for exploring...
	www.travellerspoint.com /hostels-en-ci-1182.html (130 words)

	Transylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Near Transylvanian Alps can be visited Dracula Castle situated in the town of Bran.
		Sighisoara is renowned by its architecture dating from 14 century.
		The town of "Sighisoara" is the most enchanting of all the Transylvanian towns.
	romania.8k.com /Transylvania (276 words)

	International Conference for the Integrated Development of Sighisoara and the Saxon Villages of Transylvania
		The conference and the workshops aim at assessing past initiatives in the field, to define the needs for the future and to attract new partnership initiatives and funding.
		Sighisoara Information centre and local produce development, marketing and sales.
		Producing chariots for tourism in Romanian towns and villages (horse breeding tradition as well as the handicraft).
	www.cimec.ro /Evenimente/SighisoaraConference/objective.htm (479 words)

	Veritas-Sighisoara
		This is a 2-hour walking tour through the neighborhoods and hills of Sighisoara, which also includes a light meal.
		The tour highlights are a local Gypsy neighborhood, the best view of Sighisoara’s citadel and the light meal.
		To achieve this we are working with the parents and school psychologists to advance a petition to establish a special class in one of the schools in Sighisoara.
	www.veritas.ro /news.htm (949 words)

	Atlantic Tour, Romania - Guaranteed Departure Tour - Best of Romania
		Passing through Bistrita and Targu Mures, you arrive in Sighisoara - a Saxon medieval fortress-town which has become part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage as the best preserved and continuously inhabited early medieval citadel in the world.
		In the morning, take a walking city tour of Sighisoara, including entrance to the Clock Tower - which now doubles as the local history museum and to the Church on the Hill.
		Sighisoara is, in its entirety, part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites, as being the best preserved and continuously inhabited medieval city in Europe.
	www.atlantic.ro /site_atlantic_nou/best_of_romania.php (641 words)

	Burg Hostel Sighisoara Romania - Hostel Reviews & Ratings
		During your stay you can enjoy, among other things, historical walking tours of the best preserved medieval citadel in Europe, visits to the many walled churches in the nearby Saxon villages or you can explore the old growth oak forests a few minutes from town.
		As you'll see, Sighisoara is much more than just the birthplace of Dracula.
		Sighisoara is conveniently located on Romania's main train line and is serviced by direct trains from Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Bucharest.
	www.hostelworld.com /hosteldetails.php/BurgHostel-Sighisoara-6002 (501 words)

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