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"I rubbed my eyes in amazement," wrote Walter Starkie of SIBIU in
1929. "The town where I found myself did not seem to be in Transylvania,
for it had no Romanian or Hungarian characteristics: the narrow streets
and old gabled houses made me think of Nuremberg." Nowadays the illusion
is harder to sustain, in a city surrounded by high-rise suburbs and
virtually abandoned by the Saxons themselves, but the old town is still
a startling sight and home to some of Romania's best museums.
The Town
Sibiu is an attractive and lively town where many of the houses are
painted sky blue, red, apricot or pea green, and cafés and restaurants
do a busy trade along the length of the promenade. The town is split
into a historic centre and a lower new town , and has many fine old
churches , as well as the remains of the original Saxon Bastions that
formed the town's fortifications.
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