Is a city in Transylvania, located some 282
km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of
the river Olt. Nowadays the capital of Sibiu County, between 1692 and 1791 and
1849-1865 Sibiu was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania. Sibiu is
one of the most important cultural centres of Romania and, in tandem with the
city of Luxembourg, it was designated a European Capital of Culture for the
year 2007.
