Streets of Sibiu, lower town square note the eyelid windows in the roofs
Sibiu, lower town square
Sibiu, lower town market area
The Lower town street where our pension was located
Sibiu, 2007 Cultural Capital of Europe is a Germanic Saxon city typical of the region. This is Liars Bridge and one of many links between upper and lower city
View of Liars Bridge from the upper Piata Mica square - there are those eyelids again!
Piata Mica - The old market square. The Germanic influence is quite evident in the style of the buildings. These were built at a time when Romania was under the rule of the Hapsburg Empire.
Sibiu was built on the former site of the Roman city Cibinium - called by the Saxons, Hermannstadt. This is the grand central square, Piata Mare
The new city hall (centre) flanked by the old municpal hall (left) and the Roman Catholic Church - Sibiu
More eyelids in the roof, this time on a cafe in Piata Mare
Buttresses creating an arcade entry to the walkway along the old city's fortified walls
Sibiu - walkway inside the fortified walls
Getting ready for a basketball game - just outside the city walls
Hallers Bastion - holes in the wall were for removing corpses from the sity during a time of the plague
Potters Tower and Carpenters Tower two of the 39 guild towers that encircled the city - now only a half a dozen remain
Carpenters Tower
Walkway along the exterior of the city walls -Sibiu
Main pedestrian walkway off of Piata Mare - Str. Nicolae Balsecu
Inner courtyard - where the people live - Sibiu
St Johann Evangelical Church built 1370 - 1520
Pulpit - Evangelical Church
Interior door off the Sacristy of the Evangelical church - heavy!
Over view of Piata Mare - Sibiu
View toward lower town from the Town tower - Sibiu
Sibiu - St Johann Evangelical church as it sits in Piata Huet encircled by the buildings facing Piata Mica
Clock works for the Town Tower - Sibiu
Town tower - Sibiu
Oldest restaurant in Sibiu, situate within the city walls
Barrel of Gold Restaurant - Sibiu's oldest restaurant
Birthday dinner at the restaurant
The birthday meal - what an enormous serving of polenta! The food was delicious.
Cisnadioara - Saxon fortified church near Sibiu - cross to honor a soldier killed in 1916
Cisnadioara interior - markers honor dead from 1916 WWI when the village and church were razed.
Altar slab - Cisnadioara Church
Exterior doors - Cisnadioara fortified church from 1400's
Cisnadioara Church exterior
Cisnadioara churchyard walls
Cisnadioara fortified church - Romania
View toward Cisnadie from Cisnadioara Church site
Cisnadiora church - workmen at lunch
Through the entry gate of the walls - Cisnadioara church
New town church - Cisnadioara
Open air Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization - Sibiu
typical fishing village one might see in the Danube Delta
Yes, another horse cart which we can attest are still in use.
Horse drawn plows
Windmill with sails used for grinding grain
huge wooden waterwheel attached to a boat used for grinding grain
Waterwheel attached to the boat
traditional fishing paraphenalia, hooks, nets, weirs, floats...
Authentic traditional Danube Delta fisherman's home
typical Germanic farming home from central Romania
a sheepfold
another style of sheep fold room for the shepherd and a small fenced area for the sheep
Home of a candlemaker
candle dipping
more candlemaking
Candlemaker's compound exterior
Implements for grinding and pressing
Ingenuity!
Oil Press
And they get even bigger!
and even more ingenious!
typical thatched roof home from the Hunedoara region
