Transylvania and Romania

 We just got back from a fabulous break in Romania, in particular the province of Transylvania.

I thought I might share the photos that Wargamers might find useful so here is a bit of a photo dump with the odd bit of narrative.

First of all Bram Castle.

Mrs C very disappointed as she expected a huge gothic palace out of the Dracula movies but for me it was a lovely fortress.

Vlad himself adorned one room, I was much more impressed with the reconstruction of the fabric of the Castle.

My impression is that almost all the forts and Castle had plastered and painted walls rather than exposed stonework.

This view might be more familiar from the outside.

Viscri, a "Saxon" village or small town with its own fortified Church.

My uploading is a bit haywire so two shot of Fagaras fort, newly renovated have crept into Viscris.

Back to Viscris.

Fagaras with a big old moat, draw bridge and scarp.

And Viscri again.

Most of the Transylvanian churches are fortified to a greater or lesser extent, this one is particularly nice. Each neighbour hood being responsible for its own tower mirroring the larger cities where each workers guild was responsible for a tower or gateway.

Sighisoura, the Old town with its walls and Germanic buildings around a town square was lovely, the feeling that you could be almost anywhere in Germany, Austria or Czech republic was strong.

Each tower was manned and managed by one of the local city guilds, so the Drapers may have one tower and the copper workers another.

Folk Museum outside Sibiu, this was a number of groups of rural village buildings across a couple of miles of countryside and gives a really nice idea of rural buildings in Eastern Europe for those historical battlefield.

So their you go a whistle stop tour of Romanian architecture, hopefully of use to someone. Beautiful country and well worth a visit.

Thanks for stopping by.