Art and Culture
ROMANIA
Back in Time for a Night
By Diana and Bianca
What would it be like if you could go
back in time for one night, like ten
centuries ago?
I think this question was in the heads of
Sighisoara’s creators, so they made The
Medieval Festival. Every year, in the last
weekend of July, it takes place in the
Knights’ Market, Pilgrims Market
,
Mercenaries Square, Troubadours Square,
Small Knights Square, officials Great
Tribune , Columnist House , Blacksmith
Tower, Craftsman Road , Singer and
Actors Road , Ancestors Road , Witches
Court , Comediant Road, Pilgrims Way,
Gourmet Court, Court Fortress,
and
Prisoners Corner .
Why Sighisoara?
Probably because it is the home town of
Vlad Tepes, also known as Dracula.
Furthermore, the city is the historic
center of Transylvania. Being in the
middle of the country, Sighisoara played
an important strategic and commercial
role at the edges of Central Europe for
several centuries. When it evolved into
one of the most important cities in
Transylvania, the German artisans and
craftsmen built the fortification to protect
it.
Owing to the fact that they built the town
really well to defend its fortune, it still has
the features of a small medieval fortified
city and also it is said that it is the most
beautiful and well preserved inhabited
citadel in Europe with authentic medieval
architecture.
Festival TIME !
The archaic streets, the castle which
raises above the town is dominated by a
medieval atmosphere. The festival has 10
sections: theatre, music, art, exhibition,
film, dance, book exhibition, concerts for
the youth and conferences on different
subjects but out of these naturally there
will be street clambakes, night concerts,
choir-music, middle-age dress exhibition,
middle-age dance competition as well.
Among the guests there will be national
and international university acting
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