Deva, Romania

The capital of Hunedoara county, DEVA, 30km west of Orătie, lies on the east side of a citadel built in the thirteenth century and transformed into one of Transylvania's strongest fortifications on the orders of the warlord, Hunyadi, in the fifteenth century. It crowns a volcanic hill in the shape of a truncated cone – supposedly the result of a stupendous battle between the djinns (spirits) of the Retezat mountains and of the plain, hence the nickname Hill of the Djinn.