Aparthotel Sighisoara - accommodation in Sighisoara

Sighisoara Citadel. Sighisoara is a medieval fortress with architectural ensembles in rural Gothic, and Renaissance and Baroque. The latter are the result of a constructive effort occurred relatively late in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the old defensive system set up since the XIV century can be admired today 9 towers, 2 bastions and part of the enclosure wall. Towers were placed in vulnerable areas of the fortress and were provided with shooting galleries and artillery bastions. Of these, the Clock Tower (64 m high) is the most impressive.
Clock Tower. Located in the eastern part of the lower plate Sighisoara Citadel, it was built to protect the city and the main gate to accommodate advice. Double function to explain the care that was built Sighisoara, appearance or severe and celebrate at the same time. Clock Tower served and counsel meetings and storage archive and thesaurus Sighisoara. Built in the fourteenth century and even later, the tower is full of picturesque with its double-meaning that fitting defensive barbacana that control access in the city with ramparts, watch road and shooting galleries, in fine, with four turrets symbolizing - the effigy architecture of the entire community - judicial autonomy of the city that was famous jus Gladiator manorial right punishment.
Church on the Hill. Church Hill is undoubtedly the most valuable architectural monument of Sighisoara Citadel. The construction of this church, under the patronage of St. Nicholas, began in 1345 and continued intermittently until 1525. Church building includes two oldest on the upper plateau of the hill: a Romanesque chapel and a quadrilateral dungeon. The monument is valuable and the crypt under the choir located in Transylvania and contains the graves of sec. XVI-XVIII.
Monastery Church. Church dedicated to the Holy Virgin Monastery belonged to the Dominican Monastery (demolished in the late XIX century) and was built beginning in sec. XIII, being told of an indulgence on Pope Boniface VIII in1298.

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