Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Sibiu, Romania

The project of establishing within the "ASTRA" National Museum Complex in Sibiu a museum unit of Saxon folk art started in 1997 and aimed to save, preserve and promote the tangible and intangible cultural heritage belonging to this minority, given that Sibiu represented a fundamental residence space for the Saxons.

Wikipedia: Muzeul de etnografie și artă populară săsească „Emil Sigerus” (RO), Website

The Bridge of Lies is a legendary pedestrian bridge located in the center of the Transylvanian city of Sibiu in central Romania. There are many legends surrounding the bridge because of its name. It is the first cast iron bridge built in Romania.

Wikipedia: Bridge of Lies (EN)

The Lutheran Cathedral of Saint Mary is the most famous Gothic-style church in Sibiu, Transylvania, central Romania. Its massive 73.34 m high steeple is a landmark of the city. The four turrets situated on top of the steeple are said to have been a sign to let foreigners know that the town had the right to sentence to death. It belongs to the Lutheran, German-speaking Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession in Romania.

Wikipedia: Sibiu Lutheran Cathedral (EN), Website

The passage of the stairs in Sibiu is a stone and brick passage in the city of Sibiu, which made the connection between the upper city and the city below. It is built in the fourteenth century and was doing the part of the third belt of the city.

Wikipedia: Pasajul Scărilor din Sibiu (RO)

Samuel von Brukenthal National College is a German-language high school founded in Nagyszeben, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, today in Sibiu, Sibiu County, Romania.

Wikipedia: Samuel von Brukenthal National College (EN), Website

The monument to Georg Daniel Teutsch in Sibiu is a bronze monument dedicated to the Saxon evangelical historian, politician and bishop Georg Daniel Teutsch (1817-1893), which was made by the German sculptor Adolf von Donndorf in 1899. The monument is located in Huet Square in Sibiu, in the courtyard of the Evangelical Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Monumentul lui Georg Daniel Teutsch din Sibiu (RO)

The "Franz Binder" Museum of Universal Ethnography is a department of the "ASTRA" National Museum Complex in Sibiu, which was inaugurated in 1993 as a response to the principle of cultural otherness, of knowing one's own identity by comparing oneself with the values of other cultures. It operates in a building in Piața Mica nr. 11 declared a historical monument.

Wikipedia: Muzeul de etnografie universală "Franz Binder" (RO), Website

The Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization is one of the largest open-air museums in Romania. Located immediately south of Sibiu, the museum contains creations of traditional, pre-industrial Romanian folk civilization. Houses, workshops and building complexes are sprinkled around a lake, among the trees of Dumbrăvii Sibiului.

Wikipedia: Muzeul Civilizației Populare Tradiționale „ASTRA” din Sibiu (RO)

The Museum of Transylvanian Civilization "Astra" operates in a historical building in Sibiu, in Piata Mică, no. 11.

Wikipedia: Muzeul Civilizației Transilvane „ASTRA” din Sibiu (RO), Website

The Council Tower of Sibiu is a tower situated between the two main squares of the Historic center in Sibiu, the Great Square and the Small Square.

Wikipedia: Council Tower of Sibiu (EN)

The statue of Ioan Nepomuk in Sibiu is a stone monument dedicated to Saint John Nepomuk, which was placed in 1734 in the Great Square of Sibiu. It was dismantled in 1948 and stored in the courtyard of the Brukenthal Museum, being reinstalled in 1988 in the inner courtyard of the Roman Catholic parish house in the Great Square.

Wikipedia: Statuia lui Ioan Nepomuk din Sibiu (RO)

Jesuit Church, otherwise the Church of the Holy Trinity, is a Roman Catholic church located at 3 Piața Mare, Sibiu, Romania. Immediately adjacent to Brukenthal Palace, it is one of the most notable baroque churches in Transylvania.

Wikipedia: Jesuit Church, Sibiu (EN), Url Miserend

The Great Square of Sibiu is the central square of Sibiu, existing since 1366, with the completion of the third fortification belt of the city. Maior Circulus vulgariter Kornmargt is attested as such in a document from 1408, in which Mathias Baldi is mentioned. He bought and repaired a stone house from Pipo de Timiș in that place. Another document, from 1411, attests to the sale of a stone house by Mathias Tromenauer to Nicolaus Jenkowicz for 1000 guilders in the same place.

Wikipedia: Piața Mare din Sibiu (RO)