SIGHISOARA, ROMANIA — If I worked as a newspaper writer in Transylvania instead of Seattle, I might be writing this from inside a stone tower built hundreds of years ago as a defense lookout to keep ...

SIGHISOARA, Romania — It’s telling that a major daily event in this medieval Transylvanian town is the moment when the clock tower noisily grinds into motion and people rush to watch the carved ...

The monitoring of the state of conservation of the Historic Centre of Sighisoara was included in the 2007 work plan of the National Institute of Historic Monuments. All the problems linked to the ...

In my capacity as Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee I would like to applaud the decision to halt the proposed development of the themepark "Draculaland" at the World Heritage site of the ...

6 / 23PELES CASTLE: Visiting Peles Castle is like dropping smack-bang into the middle a fairytale. The enchanting castle features close to 160 rooms spanning a plethora of interior design themes, with ...

A junior at Revere High School, Alex spent two weeks with his family in Romania last year, tracing his grandfather's roots – and taking lots of pictures. His winning image was taken in colorful ...

Nestled deep in the enchanting region of Transylvania, Romania, the town of Sighisoara is home to one of Europe’s last inhabited medieval fortresses. This UNESCO World Heritage Site, often overlooked ...

That Sighisoara is known predominantly as the birthplace of Vlad Tepes, the real-life inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, serves only as a useful but kitsch marketing tool that has paved the way ...

A beautiful European city has been described as something from a fairytale, but many won't have even heard of it. Sighisoara is a city on the Tarnava Mare River in central Romania. It is located in ...