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,.
rama
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.
Traveling Hawk
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:)
Rodica
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!
Traveling Hawk
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.
Arnaud
Nice middle-age town !
Traveling Hawk
In fact, there are three towns, Arnaud. Thanks for the visit!
Helma
These are again many beautiful moments of your travels with beautiful colored buildings and again lots of lovely details:-)
Traveling Hawk
Thanks, Helma! It is about several days spent in Transylvania, on August.