Sighisoara

Sighisoara remarked itself as a big handicraft and cultural centre and as a residential town. It is certified in documents from 1280 under the name of 'Castrum Sex'.
The fortress - architectonic complex was built gradually between 14th-17th century. The complex, situated on a hill, dominates the whole city, maintaining its initial shape of a nucleus of massive buildings that guard the narrow colourful streets. The fortress has 14 defensive towers. Among them the most famous are: the Tower of Butchers, of Tailors, of Shoemakers, of Smiths, of Ropers and the bastion of what used to be the Tower of Jewellers.
Inside the fortress there is the Clock Tower with a height of 64 m, equipped with 4 little towers and a wooden passage for guard. It was built in 14th century and served as a meeting place for the city older men. Later in 1648 a clock was installed in the tower which gives it the actual name. Today it shelters the History Museum that displays objects and documents regarding the history of Sighisoara: coins, tools, guns, the copy of a letter wrote by Napoleon Bonaparte to General Freiher Von Melas -born in Sighisoara, a medieval drugstore etc.
The city offers the tourists more monumental constructions - 'The Uphill Church', erected in Gothic style similar to the Black Church in Brasov. Inside the church we can see old paintings (1483-1488), an altar painted in 1515, furniture in the Renaissance style, a pew of big proportions, a beautiful gothic pulpit, funeral stones, one of them from 1640; the southern portal and the walls of the choir which are entirely decorated with sculptures.
The Dominican monks built the Monastery Church, in shape of gothic hall, in the 13th century.
The Lepers' Church, also in Gothic style, has an exterior pulpit, where the lepers, who were not allowed in the church, could listen the preaching.
In 1656 the monument 'The Covered Stairs' was built. 175 stairs connected the downward town and the fortress.
Besides these, one can visit 'the House with Deer', noble residence raised in the Transilvanian Renaissance style, the Vlad Tepes 's House, where the famous prince was born in 1431 and the Venetian House, construction from the 16th century, renovated in Gothic Venetian style in the 19th century.