Visiting Romania always brings something unexpected and worth visiting. Most people heard about Transylvania and vampires and so on. But the true story lies behind curtains of history and wonderful monuments that stand the passage of time. Bran Castle is therefore the famous attraction where tourists can both visit and get souvenirs related to Vlad Tepes, the cruel ruler that empaled enemies and was knows as Transylvania's vampire.. But beyond the walls of the old city center, one can also discover bits of Middle Age history, visit museums and the famous Black Church, one of the largest of this kind in Eastern Europe, where hundreds of unique carpets have always stirred admiration due to their colour and quality preserved over the years. The former defense towers of the city can also be visited, they are accomodating small museum presenting artifacts and weapon accesories of the medieval times. As it lies in the center of the country, Brasov had an important role in the spreading of Romanian language in all the counties through the books and manuscripts that saw the daylight in one of the first printing machines inside The First Romanian School. This part of the city used to be inhabited only by Romanian peasants who weren't allowed inside the fortress walls where the Saxon population lived, except for exchanging merchandise at due times. So the traditional horsebackriding groups called "Junii Brasovului", wearing handmade costumes come once a year, a wonderful attraction for tourists, to show their skills and breed horses in a wonderful parade through the city. It's soon after Easter, a sign spring comes and celebrating the re-birth of nature and the beginning of a year's work. Lots of inhabitants take part, they party joyfully and accompany the riders all the way to the mountain side, where the legend says king Solomon got killed as a rock fell over him, after he was cursed by his own mother.