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Transylvania Castle Cultural Experience
Tour ID:
1043
Tour Theme:
Historic and Cultural Tours
Regions:
Transylvania
Duration:
8 Days / 7 Nights |
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Introduction:
Travel to a land that time forgot. Discover how you can contribute to the restoration of Transylvaniaâ™s heritage
and help to conserve its unspoilt nature. Be our guest in unique cottages
furnished in the traditional Szekler and Saxon styles and experience the
slow-paced charm of Transylvanian village life.
Those who visit Transylvania
soon forget its association with Bram Stoker's literary creation, Count Dracula,
and instead become fascinated by its true history and culture. Transylvania
offers a dynamic visual experience from living rustic homesteads to forts
dramatically perched on mountains.
The history of the Saxons in Transylvania is a long sad story best told to you
by the handful of persons who still remain in their native villages. The
cultural achievements of this people are unmatched. In the Saxon areas you will
find the medieval cities of Brasov (Kronstadt) and Sigisoara (Schäßburg),
 fairytale fortresses such as Bran (Törzburg), and fortified churches (Tartlau,
Honigberg). Many of these fairy-tale-like places are listed as UNESCO "World
Heritage".
Unlike the Saxons, the Hungarian-speaking Szeklers still populate their
ancestral region. They had to defend Transylvania's and Europe's eastern border
for a millennium and all Szeklers had the status and privileges of nobility.
Miklósvár is one of our oldest settlements and mirrors ancient Szekler history.
Visit more of this unique region and find medieval churches covered inside with
frescoe, discover old manor houses of Szekler noblemen in ancient villages still
throbbing with life. Meet a family of woodcarvers and furniture painters who
have been handing down their profession from father to son since the 1500s
(oldest in Europe), and visit kilns where limestone and wood-coal is still being
burned like in the middle ages.
 Transylvania
was the first country in the world to guarantee by law religious freedom (1568).
You will find several churches of different faiths in every village. The
Szeklers even produced a separate faith: 'Unitarianism'. This reformation did
not recognize Jesus or the Holy Spirit as being of godly origin: God being one
and unique. As reformation expanded in Transylvania in the 16th and 17th
century, the interior decorations of the churches were painted over. As layers
of white chalk are peeled off the walls by archaeologists, original frescoes
from the 13th - 15th centuries appear. Many churches also have beautifully
painted wooden ceilings
Accommodated in heritage cottages in Miklosvar, you will see village life
first-hand. Depending on the season, you will meet cows returning home from the
valley in the evening, see farmers working in the fields with traditional tools,
and even attend a harvest festival ball and join in with traditional Szekler
folk dancing.
Transylvania
Castle Cultural Experience!!!
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