Sighisoara - Transylvania - Romania

Sighisoara is today one of the most beautiful and authentic small medieval towns of Europe. What’s more, it’s the last still inhabited medieval citadel in Europe. It is also the birthplace of Vlad Dracula, also known as Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), ruler of the province of Walachia from 1456 to 1462.
First mentioned in 1191 as a town, built on the site of a former Roman fort named Castrum Sex, Sighisoara is one of the seven fortified cities of Transylvania established in the 12th century by the German craftsmen and merchants known as Saxons, who were invited here by the King of Hungary in order of strengthening the Eastern border of Hungarian Kingdom against the invadors.
The main attraction of the city is the Medieval Citadel surrounded by a wall with a length of 930 meters, reinforced with fourteen defense towers and five artillery bastions each of them built and maintained by one of the fifteen local guilds. Among many other attractions there are also The Clock tower, Church on the Hill and the Covered Stairs.
Sighisoara was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1993.