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From Sighisoara we went to Brasov..... about 2 hours by road. First stop was a little way from the center.....
We then visited a small museum which had the earliest printed works in Romania....
It had been an old school.....and the talk we were given was as though by a teacher of those times.....
The walk into the center took 20-30 minutes but was interesting......
We checked out the Black Church.......black because there had been a fire and they have never cleaned it as within they think they have a miracle fresco....the Virgin Mary's blue dress became black... all the other people's clothes remained as original. No interior photos allowed!
The main square in Brasov is huge.....lots and lots of restaurants.......
and we did indeed have a fabulous lunch in.............
Next day we went to check out another fortified church and town, Prejmer.....this time thankfully not up 100 steps in 39C heat! We were again greeted by storks!
This was very interesting.....sort of an original condo building! In times of threat the villagers would all go inside the walls and were assigned a room with a number corresponding to their village home number.
The interior court had an old church and places for the locals to feel safe in times of invasion.....
We were lucky to be there when an organist was practicing...........
This is where Vlad the Impaler (Dracula!!) is supposed to be buried........
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