Medieval Sibiu

Day 1: Arrival – Cluj Napoca City Tour

Day 2: Today you’ll get an overview on the cultural mixture of Transylvania, shaped by over a thousand years of common history. Today’s agenda includes a visit to Banffy Castle where you’ll learn the sad story of the largest castle in Transylvania.

Day 3: The tour of Transylvania continues with a history lesson in the heart of Sighisoara fortress – monument included on the UNESCO world heritage list. We’ll visit Saschiz and Viscri, two small settlements, structured around the hundred-year-old churches. The two villages are often visited by Prince Charles.

Day 4: The tour of Transylvania continues with a visit to Prejmer, a church-fortress surrounded by white, 12-metre-tall walls, sheltering the church and the siege buildings. Brasov, one of the most beautiful Romanian cities is only 30 minutes away.

Day 5: Your holiday in Romania is completed with a tour of the most famous and …infamous castle in Europe, Dracula’s Castle, whose legend has been a relentless inspiration for Hollywood. The same medieval atmosphere is recreated by Rasnov fortress, dominating the surroundings from an altitude of more than 600 metres. The way to Fagaras fortress reveals, once more, the unspoilt beauty of Romania. Next in your holidays in Transylvania, we reach the feudal castle surrounded by moats and on our way to Sibiu we’ll stop to admire the old Cistercian monastery in Carta.

Day 6: This day continue with Sibiu, the elected European cultural capital in 2007.

Day 7: Today we discover a newly-added monument to the Unesco world heritage sites, Calnic fortress. Closely related to the European history is also Hunedoara Castle. The evening is reserved to visiting Alba Carolina Citadel, surrounded by 12 kilometers of sturdy walls enclosing more than 2000 years of Romanian history.

Day 8: Your holidays in Transylvania ends with a visit to a spectacular and quite unique site, due to its strange form: a huge subterranean cave carved in salt, a former salt-mine turned into a tourist attraction (Turda Salt mine).

Day 1: Welcome to Transylvania! Soon after your arrival at the airport you’ll be transferred to the rural area of Sibiel, a delightful place at the foot of the Carpathian mountains. After reaching your accommodation – a boarding house in the center of the village - we will visit the Museum of Painted Glass Icons, the largest of its kind in Romania.

Day 2: On our second day, we’ll delve into the medieval history of Transylvania. First we’ll visit the fortified church of Biertan, a place of worship, refuge and prison all at once. Then we’ll take a stroll on the winding cobblestone streets of the picturesque Sighişoara, up to the Clock Tower.

Day 3: Hiking in Mărginimea Sibiului, one of the most beautiful rural areas in Europe. Our beautiful journey will take us through the Carpathian forests and we’ll pause for a picnic in a meadow offering a panoramic view on the surrounding villages. All products served are organic, the result of a natural process that has remained largely unaltered for decades.

Day 4: We leave the busy morning atmosphere behind and head to the Alba Carolina Fortress, the largest fortress in Romania, whose history begins with the Roman Empire and continues to this day. Our next tourist sight is Câlnic Castle, a monument listed under the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, an ancient noble’s dungeon turned into a defense fortress.

Day 5: For a truly authentic local experience, your vacation in Transylvania should include some demonstrations of the local artisans.Your morning begins with a glass painting workshop, according to special techniques perfected over the years by craftsmen in the area. In the afternoon we’re invited to a traditional Romanian wedding.

Day 6: A few minutes away from Sibiel we enter the city of Sibiu – one of the absolute must-see places in Romania!

Day 7: Saying good-bye to the unique atmosphere of Transylvanian villages, we leave for the airport.

Day 1: Arrival – Bucharest City Tour – Restaurant Count Dracula. Only a few kilometers away from Bucharest we’ll reach a charmed islet in the middle of a lake, with a small chapel inhabited by only one monk. The evening is devoted to the old historical center; the narrow streets nowadays filled with stylish bistros and cafés used to be witnesses of public trials whose merciless judge was the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impailer (Romanian Vlad Ţepes ), Dracula himself. The Halloween Party starts in a themed restaurant dedicated to Count Dracula.

Day 2: Bucharest hides numerous well-kept secrets and The People’s House, the largest functional building in Europe, seems to gather more enigmas and mysteries than any other place. Next in our itinerary is Brasov, an old medieval city at the foot of the Carpathians, surrounded by thick defense walls. It’s your first night in Transylvania!

Day 3: After breakfast we head out to Sibiu following the former trade routes taken hundreds of years ago by armies, caravans or fugitives. Among Transylvanian specific houses, the half-ruined tower of the Cistercian Abbey can hardly co unnoticed. Next, we stop in Sibiu to visit the old town with its large and picturesque square, and learn the secrets guarded by the city walls and the catacombs underneath. The evening’s attraction is Corvin gothic castle whose visitors never forget it.

Day 4: After breakfast we continue our journey through the region of Transylvania which has yet secrets to reveal, making your Halloween quite unforgettable. Later on we’ll reach Biertan where we visit the famous fortified church dating back to the Middle Ages, whose bleak image inspired many novelists. Sighisoara is closely related to the origins of prince Vlad, without whom Dracula’s legend would have never existed. We’ll pay a visit to the house where Vlad Dracul was born.

Day 5: Viscri is a small Transylvanian village near the Carpathian mountains where you’ll meet wonderful people. After a traditional Romanian lunch In the evening you have the unique chance to visit Bran Castle, the castle of count Dracula, lit by candlelight. Ielele, a kind of evil fairies present in the Romanian folklore will certainly try to lure you into the world beyond…

Day 6: On our return trip, we’ll delve into the enigmas of an even more mysterious palace: a somber castle whose chambers have strange symbols that many consider a gate to the world of the spirits.

Day 7: Your Halloween holidays come to an end but to story will be continued …