"Sighisoara is a citadel unique in Romania and South Eastern Europe. How beguiling seems the idea of a Middle Age inhabited by people of today! Sighisoara is waiting for us to explore its world: city walls with bastions and nine defensive towers, the austere Clock Tower, with its astonishing Baroque roof, the mediaeval town square – formerly the site of the “pole of infamy” and public executions -, the Gothic churches, the narrow cobbled streets, the old houses with pastel-coloured facades and flowerpots in the windows, the arched passageways, echoing to the sound of children's voices…"
