Transylvania-travel: Sibiu County

Lotrioara “Broken Tower” Ruins

Here was the border between Transylvania(north) and Walachia/Romania(south).

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THE `ASTRA` MUSEUM OF TRADITIONAL FOLK CIVILIZATION – or THE OPEN AIR MUSEUM

Situated in the natural reservation of Dumbrava Sibiului, the Open Air Museum spreads across a 96 ha area of which an area of 40 ha is covered by the permanent exhibition which is the largest open air ethnographic exhibition in Europe. Inaugurated in 1963 under the name of the Museum of Folk Technics, the museum currently has over 400 monuments of folk architecture and technique as well as an impressive collection of

ethnographic heritage objects. The collection of mills, the wooden churches, and the traditional homesteads are very popular and very much appreciated. The museum is divided in 6 thematic sectors, 36 thematic groups and subgroups. The exceptional natural landscape makes the open air museum adequate during both summer and winter, for educational visits, relaxing walks, drives by carriage, sleigh or sailing, according to

everyone`s taste.

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The Zoological Garden in Sibiu

The Zoological Garden in Sibiu is the first one in the country, opened in 1929 by the Electrical Company, at the initiative of a Hungarian engineer. Nowadays, the Zoological Garden in Sibiu spreads over a surface of 15 hectares and shelters 187 animals and birds belonging to 47 different species: monkeys, bears, white wolves, Carpathian wolves, foxes, tigers, lions, jaguars, puma, wild boars, lamas, Carpathian stags, pad deer, deer, white buffalo, pony, reticulated pitons, crocodiles, pheasants, parrots, peacocks, pigeons.

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Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt, Hungarian: Nagyszeben) - Medieval Festival

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.