Sighisoara, Romania Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

A forbidding silhouette of battlements and needle spires looms over SIGHISOARA (Schässburg to the Saxons and Segesvár to the Hungarians) as the sun descends behind the hills of the Târnava Mare valley, and it seems fitting that this was the birthplace of Vlad Tepes, "The Impaler" – the man known to so many as Dracula . Visually archaic even by Romanian standards, Sighisoara makes the perfect introduction to Transylvania, especially as the eastbound Dacia, Traianus and Pannonia express trains all stop here, making a convenient break in the long journey between Budapest and … more »