Brasov, Romania Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The medieval Saxons, with an eye for trade and invasion routes, sited their largest settlements within a day's journey of the Carpathian passes. BRASOV (Kronstadt to the Saxons and Brassó to the Hungarians) was one of the best placed and grew prosperous and fortified as a result, and for many centuries the Saxons there constituted an elite whose economic power long outlasted its feudal privileges. During the 1960s, the Communist regime attempted to create its own skilled working class in the city, and to this end it brought thousands of Moldavian villagers to Brasov, where they were drafted into the new … more »