Tours To Corvin Castle And Alba Iulia City

Tours To Corvin Castle And Alba Iulia City

This trip is especially designed for lovers of history and legends, or those who are keen to discover the mystical places, full of stories as the Citadel of Alba Carolina. We will spend a beautiful time in Alba Iulia Citadel and then we will continue in an unique medieval atmosphere of the grandious Corvin Castle. On the way back we will pass by pretty Saxon villages with the biggest population of storcks in Romania.

Details:

Route: Sibiu – Alba Iulia – Corvin Castel – Cristian fortress –  Sibiu  305 km +

Time : 8- 10 hours

Description

Alba Carolina Citadel – Alba Iulia

Being built on the site of Dacian ruins and on the Roman fort Legion XIII – Gemina, Alba Carolina Citadel is one of the most important Vauban fortifications  in Europe with a shape of a star with seven corners. The symbol of the United Romania, The Citadel browse significant pages of history for the Romanian reunifications.

Corvin Castle

Corvin Castle is a medieval fortress with an impressive Gothic architecture and a special appearance – considered to be one of the scariest in the world.

The castle walls include almost six hundred years of unbroken history. It seems that Vlad the Impaler was imprisoned for a period in the castle’s prison being in the same time the place where he learned how to fight in his in teenage years.

Cristian

A short visit to the evangelical fortified church that was built on the site of an ancient Roman basilica in the XIII century near Cibin river surrounded by hundreds of storks that have returned from their long journey.

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