Brasov is a town in the heart of Rumania, in it's section called Transylvania, right inside the tip of the “>” -shaped Rumanian section of the Carpathian arc. As everywhere in Transylvania, also here can be perceived more elements from Central Europe: in the architecture, history, religion and ethniae. This means more post-medieval burghers' houses than elsewhere in Rumania, more Roman Catholics and Lutherans and more Hungarians, Germans, Slovaks and Czechs than elsewhere in the Balkans.

I spent just a couple ... (more)