Day One:

Pick up from airport in Timişoara or Budapest.

Introductions and orientation.

Walking tour of Timişoara, including the Orthodox Cathedral, the Castle,

Piata Unirii, the Synogogue, and the location where the 1989 Revolution began.

Day Two:

Depart Timişoara at 8:30 a.m.

          Tour Hunedoara Castle, the former home of John Hunyadi and the most impressive fortress of Transylvania. 

Dracula was once a guest here…and a prisoner.

          Visit Sebeş (German Mühlbach), with its fine fortified Saxon church.

          Arrive Sibiu

          Walking Tour of Sibiu, including the Saxon cathedral, the “liar’s bridge,” the city walls, etc.

Day Three:

Visit the fortified Saxon Churches of imposing Hosman, neglected Pelişor, and the

most famous, Biertan

          Arrive Sighişoara

          Walking night tour of Sighişoara’s walled Old Town

Day Four:

Morning in Sighişoara—visit the Councilors’ Tower, the Medieval dungeon, the

“Pupils’ Stairs,” the Saxon church and cemetary, the Dominican Abbey, and Dracula’s birthplace.

          Bicaz Gorge – We drive through this deep chasm barely wide enough for the road!

          Raşca Monastery – In our view, the most charming of the painted monestaries of Bukovina

          Arrive Voronet

Day Five:

Voronet Monastery 

          Barsana – a monastic village with excellent examples of wooden church

architecture.

          Arrive Sighetu Marmatiei

Day Six:

Morning in Sighetu Marmatiei – visit one of the worst Communist prisons,

now a museum, and Elie Wiesel’s boyhood home.

          Sapanta, with its famous “Happy Cemetary.”

          Surdesti Church, with the highest wooden steeple in all of Europe.

          Arrive Cluj

Day Seven:

Walking tour of Cluj, which has a complicated Romanian/Hungarian/Saxon history.

          Visit Alba Iulia, the administrative capital of Transylvania during the Habsburg era; site of the most

impressive cathedral in the province (in both Romanesque and Gothic style).

          Arrive Timişoara