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Location:
The town Sibiu is located in central Romania in the Southern part of the Transylvanian plateau, 300 Km northwest from Bucharest. 'Marginimea Sibiului' is an area containing 18 villages on northwest of Sibiu, deep in the Cibin mountains, covering around 200 sq. km. The 18 villages are: Boita, Sadu, Raul Sadului, Talmaciu, Talmacel. Rasinari, Poplaca, Gura Raului, Orlat, Fantanele, Sibiel, Vale, Saliste, Gales, Tilisca, Rod, Poiana Sibiului si Jina.
History:
The town of Sibiu has a rich history of nearly a thousand years, the first document dates from 1191, when settlers from Saxony arrived on its location.
Medieval Sibiu was the site of a fortress built in the 13th century, which was destroyed by the Tartars in 1241, rebuilt a century later, and three times assaulted by the Turks during 1400's. Many Germans settled in the area and the town became known as Hermannstadt. Another large ethnic minority of the city was the Hungarians, so, during the period when Transylvania was a part of the Austrian Empire, Sibiu was known as Nagyszeben.
The oldest of the villages from Marginimea Sibiului is Rasinari (from 1204), following by Talmaciu (1318), Orlat (1322) si Saliste (1354). The oldest painted church is found in Saliste (1674) followed by the wood church in Poiana Sibiului (1771)
Touristic sights:
The rural architecture preserves typical Romanian elements, although the exterior of the houses shows the interference between the Saxon and Romanian culture.
However traditional houses are more and more replaced by modern ones, the region's atmosphere remains the same. Local people continue to wear their traditional clothes embroidered in black and white, of a rare elegance and traditional occupations inherited from generation to generation are still practised with great success.
Among the most known villages of this region can be mentioned Saliste, Sibiel, Tilisca, Rasinari, Poiana Sibiului, Miercurea Sibiului, Jina, which gave to Romanian and universal culture great names, like Emil Cioran, Octavian Goga, and, as a mention, six Romanian academicians are native from Saliste.
In contrast with these Romanian villages that are lying at the foot of the mountains, the Saxon ones are situated in valleys and preserved their fortified churches in a good shape. The most important of these churches are the ones from Cristian and Cisnadie. Even if the Saxon population has decreased in number in the last ten years, its spirit remains still alive for a long time.
Painting on glass is a tradition for 200 years in these villages and the Museum of Painted Glass in Sibiel is the largest in Europe.
Some other attractions in this area:
- The Village Museum in Rasinari
- The Octavian Goga Memorial House, in the house where the great poet was born in Rasinari.
- The Energy Museum 'Sigmund Dachler' in Sadu where in 1896 was open the first hydropower in Romania and the third in Europe.
- The Short Citadel in Orlat (1322)
- The Saliste Culture Museum in Saliste
- The Dacian Citadel near Tilisca
- The fortifed Church in Cristian (1495)
- The Fortifed Church Dobarca (13-th century)
- The Calnic Citadel (1250)
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