Ținuturile în care s-au așezat , în sec. XII-XIII, coloniști cărora avea să li se spună mai târziu generic sași, se numesc în limba acestora, Siebenburgen, adică Șapte Cetăți. Care sunt acestea? Bistrița, Cluj-Napoca, Brașov, Sebeș, Sibiu, Mediaș și Sighișoara. Prin trei dintre ele am trecut astă vară, cu ocazia celor două tururi care au avut ca obiectiv vizitarea bisericilor medievale fortificate săsești, despre care vi-am povestit până acum.
Mediaș
Sibiu
Sighișoara
Câteva ilustrate, pe care n-am apucat să vi le expediez astă-vară, iată-le aici:
Mediaș:
Sibiu:
Sighișoara
Postcards from Siebenburgen
Siebenburgen or “Seven Fortresses” in Romanian is the territory were colonists, named later “Saxons”, settled during 12th.-13th. century. There are seven medieval towns there, ercted at their beginnings as fortresses: Bistrița, Cluj-Napoca, Brașov, Sebeș, Sibiu, Mediaș și Sighișoara. This summer I spent some hours in three of these: Mediaș, Sibiu and Sighișoara, when I was touring the Saxon medieval fortified churches. I send you now some postcards from each of them,.
I really loved the lovely pictures taken by you. I love the picture of the bridge with the flowering creepers,the lamp post and the sighisoara entrance to a house, this particular picture makes me feel i am in some village in South India. Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures.
How are you?
It has been a long time since we communicated, I will drop often from now onwards.
During our recent trip to central Europe I kept thinking of you a lot, but I didn’t visit your country. Be well my dear friend.
Thank you, rama, for your nice words. I answered already to your comment under the section Contact. I also have seen your posts from Warsaw and Germany. May be at your next visit will be in Eastern Europe, and then you will visit my country too.
I will start to read your posts, working my way backward. I still have some difficult problems in my life now but I will return to my daily interests. It’s a promise:)
Ma bucur ca am revazut imagini din Medias. L-am vizitat in tinerete, pe cand locuia o matusa de-a mea acolo, dar nu-mi mai amintesc prea multe despre el. La Sibiu ai surprins elemente de arhitectura traditionale zonei.
Sighisoara este si ea tot “o perla”.
M-am bucurat sa-l vad pe turistul Caro!
Turistul Caro ne-a insotit cuminte peste tot:)
Mai fusesem prin toate aceste trei orase dar m-am bucurat si eu de revedere, chiar daca a fost scurta.
Nice middle-age town !
In fact, there are three towns, Arnaud. Thanks for the visit!
These are again many beautiful moments of your travels with beautiful colored buildings and again lots of lovely details:-)
Thanks, Helma! It is about several days spent in Transylvania, on August.