Brasov, in central Romania, a
\ncity renowned for its medieval architecture and the multitude of cultural
\nevents unfolding here all over the year. <\/a>Spending a week in Brasov could
\ncater for the taste of any fastidious tourist as the region offers a lot of
\nopportunities to anyone interested in culture, shopping, adventure tourism or
\nmountain sports irrespective of the season while others can simply enjoy
\noutdoor activities. <\/p>\n
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Back in the medieval time,
\nBrasov used to be a thriving citadel, upon which it became a city that
\nconnected the Western world with the Balkans, a major trade hub. Its historical
\nmonuments are a delight to tourists visiting the city, standing proof of
\nflourishing olden times. Its surroundings are fraught with fortified churches
\nlying amid quiet secluded villages. In the following minutes Cristian
\nMacedonschi, a representative of Brasov city hall, will be introducing some of
\nthe most important tourist attractions in the area. <\/p>\n
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Cristian Macedonschi: The Teutonic citadel of Marienburg or Feldioara is worth
\nvisiting as there we also have the Michael Weiss monument of fallen soldiers.
\nWe have fortified cities, UNESCO monuments, such as that in Prejmer or Viscri.
\nViscri, for instance, has achieved world acclaim after the visits paid here by
\nPrince Charles. Then there is the Black Church, which is the Romanian monument
\nwith the largest number of photos taken. The Bran castle lying in the region
\nboasts the largest number of visitors in Romania, over 550 thousand. Then there
\nis the fortified city of Rasnov and Brasov’s historic center flanked by the
\nWhite and Black Towers, the Weavers Bastion, The Museum of Urban Civilization.<\/p>\n
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The Museum of urban
\ncivilization is located on the premises of the old city of Brasov housed by a
\nbuilding dating back to 13th and 14th centuries. The
\nmuseum has three floors, where visitors can admire restored photo studios,
\nfashion design salons as well as rooms that are representatives for the life of
\nthe bourgeoisie in mid-19th century. However, the most
\nrepresentative lay monument in Brasov is the Town Hall called Casa Sfatului,
\nwhich dates back to 1420. Around this you’ll be seeing many other
\nrepresentative buildings. Here is now Stelian Cosulet telling us more about the
\nCounty History Museum in Brasov. <\/p>\n
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Bogdan Cosulet: Not far from the Casa Sfatului, there is the largest building of
\nBrasov, St. Bartholomew’s Church dating back 1160. Historians are still takings
\nsides about the time the church was built. Close to it there lies the famous
\nBlack Church, a gothic cathedral representative for the architecture in
\nSouth-Eastern Transylvania. This remains the biggest religious monument in
\nRomania measuring 92 meters in length. The initial project included two towers
\nbut out of economic reasons only one tower was built. The Black Church is
\npresently housing major art collections that date back before Luther’s Reform,
\nsuch as a portrait of the Madonna, from the time of Matei Corvin, around
\n1480-1490. <\/p>\n
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Stephan
\nMarkus Schlandt is a pipe organist at the Black Church in Brasov, where he
\ngives concerts on a Buchholtz mechanical pipe organ, the largest in Romania
\nwith 3993 pipes. <\/p>\n
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Bogdan Cosulet: The Black Church was initially called St. Mary and was a Catholic
\nchurch. But Iohannes Honterus, a humanist from Transylvania of Saxon origin
\nchanged the religious faith of the Saxons, at the same time changing the
\neducation system; he drew a map of Transylvania, brought a printing press to
\nBrasov and started printing religious books in Romanian, German and Latin. The
\nregion knew its first flourishing period around the 16th century,
\nthrough the crafts that developed here, a fact that boosted its relations with
\nthe Ottoman Empire. For this reason we are proud to have the largest collection
\nof Turkish carpets outside Turkey. The city was burnt to the ground by a
\npowerful blaze in 1689. The buildings we see now were built after that blaze,
\nwhich affected also the Black Church, that’s why we call it black. There followed
\none century of restoration. The first to be restored was the dome then the pews
\nand the interior decoration as well as the pipe organ.<\/p>\n
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Here is priest
\nVasile Oltean with the Muzeum ‘First Romanian School’ in the oldest Brasov
\ndistrict called the Schei talking about one of the oldest traditions in
\nthe region called the Junii Festival. <\/p>\n
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Vasile Oltean: Junii of Brasov were a group of people who used to come in
\ntheir traditional folk costumes carrying battle flags and brandishing maces.
\nThey preserved many traditions some of them dating back to the ancient kingdom
\nof Dacia. According to historical documents, the church in the region was built
\nalong the years by no less than 32 rulers and boyars from Wallachia and
\nMoldavia and because of that, we know a fact that was also confirmed by 80
\nprincely documents that a genuine Romanian cultural centre had emerged to have
\nlater materialized in the first Romanian school. The first legitimate question
\nanyone may ask is, when did Romanians have their first school? History told us
\ntheir first school was founded in the 16th century but the church’s
\nchronicles read clearly, ‘the holy church was built around 1495 along with the
\nschool’.<\/p>\n
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Brasov remains a destination for sports and
\nadventure lovers too. One of the most important and renowned ski resorts nearby
\nis Poiana Brasov, where one can find the best ski schools in winter, while in
\nsummer one make take delight in some of the most beautiful trekking routes
\nwhere you’ll enjoy the flora and fauna of the Carpathians. Package trips to the
\nregion can be purchased from various travel operators based in Brasov or on
\nline. <\/p>\n
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