Sighisoara

I am in the last town on my mini-tour of Transylvania. The town of Sighisoara is rich in history and full of Medieval architecture. It is a small, amazingly intact 15th century Citadel (3 sq. miles) that has 9 towers, narrow passageways, and cobbled streets. The Citadel was a fortress that protected the town from outside invaders. It is also the birthplace of Vlad Tepes (Dracula). This is the most incredible place I have seen in all of Transylvania. I am walking around in a fairy tale. It is so hard to describe. I have taken hundreds of pictures, but will only show a few here.  I have also shot a little video because the view from my room cannot be described adequately.  I am located in the heart of the Citadel at the Clock Tower.

I visited the birthplace of Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes yesterday. It is a nice cafe, of all things. I had a lovely cup of tea, rare for Romania. I also went inside the Clock Tower, which is how I got the birds-eye view of the town. The tower is now the Museum of History, and for a small fee ($2.60 +/-) I got to see some amazing artifacts from the middle ages. My favorite items were from the pharmacy section. They had a surgeons tool bag, an amputation tool bags (ick!) and, most uncomfortable of all, a gynecological tool bag. Talk about your instruments of torture!  It made me squirm not a little.

I toured the edges of The Citidel and took pictures of many of the towers, but I have declined to name them in case I mix them up. There is The Taylor's Tower, The Butcher's Tower, and others, but wasn't sure which was which.  I ran into a beautiful cemetery, filled with new, old, and ancient graves. These are not buried in the ground, but interred above ground like in Louisianna. There were about 7 tiers of graves here...a beautiful, peaceful, green and hilly cemetery. On my way back to the Inn, I spotted my small installation...it had been moved to a new place, but it's still there and in tact. Here is a small taste of what I saw on my stroll around the Citadel.

View from my Window

Clock Tower

Vlad's Birthplace

Clock Tower

Leaving my Feet in Sighisoara

Little Matt





Wall thickness approximately 3 Feet

Original Citadel Wall...13th Century!