17 Sights in Sibiu, Romania (with Map and Images)

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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Sibiu, Romania! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Sibiu. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.

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1. Lutheran Cathedral of Saint Mary

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The Lutheran Cathedral of Saint Mary is the most famous Gothic-style church in Sibiu, Transylvania, central Romania. Its massive 73.34 m high steeple is a landmark of the city. The four turrets situated on top of the steeple are said to have been a sign to let foreigners know that the town had the right to sentence to death. It belongs to the Lutheran, German-speaking Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession in Romania.

Wikipedia: Sibiu Lutheran Cathedral (EN), Website

2. Brukenthal National Museum

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The Brukenthal National Museum is a museum in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, established in the late 18th century by Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803) in his city palace. Baron Brukenthal, governor of the Grand Principality of Transylvania established his first collections around 1790. The collections were officially opened to the public in 1817, making the museum the oldest institution of its kind on the territory of modern-day Romania.

Wikipedia: Brukenthal National Museum (EN), Website

3. ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization

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ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization No machine-readable author provided. Qyd assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization is one of the largest open-air museums in Romania. Located immediately south of Sibiu, the museum contains creations of the traditional, pre-industrial Romanian folk civilization. The houses, workshops and building complexes are scattered around a lake, among the trees of the Sibiu Grove.

Wikipedia: Muzeul Civilizației Populare Tradiționale „ASTRA” din Sibiu (RO), Website

4. Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral

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The Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu, located at 35 Mitropoliei Street, Sibiu, Romania, is the seat of the Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania. It was built in the style of a Byzantine basilica, inspired by Hagia Sophia, with the main spires influenced by Transylvanian church architecture and Baroque elements.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu (EN)

5. Natural History Museum

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The Museum of Natural History in Sibiu is a museum institution founded in 1849 in Sibiu. The current museum building was built in 1894-1895 in the former park of the Theatre, on Cetății Street no. 1.

Wikipedia: Muzeul de Istorie Naturală din Sibiu (RO), Website

6. Biserica Romano Catolică Sfânta Treime

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Jesuit Church, otherwise the Church of the Holy Trinity, is a Roman Catholic church located at 3 Piața Mare, Sibiu, Romania. Immediately adjacent to Brukenthal Palace, it is one of the most notable baroque churches in Transylvania.

Wikipedia: Jesuit Church, Sibiu (EN), Url Miserend

7. Carpenters’ Tower

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The Carpenters' Tower in Sibiu is a tower built in the fourteenth century by the Saxon carpenters' guild in the city of Sibiu. The tower was part of the city's third ring of fortifications. The Carpenters' Tower is the northernmost of the three towers located on Cetății Street.

Wikipedia: Turnul Dulgherilor din Sibiu (RO)

8. The Thick Tower

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The Thick Tower of Sibiu is a tower built in the sixteenth century in the city of Sibiu and which was part of the fortifications incorporated after the city's defense belts. It is located on Cetății Street and Corneliu Coposu Boulevard.

Wikipedia: Turnul Gros din Sibiu (RO)

9. Episcop Georg Daniel Teutsch

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The Monument of Georg Daniel Teutsch in Sibiu is a bronze monument dedicated to the historian, politician and Saxon evangelical bishop Georg Daniel Teutsch (1817-1893), which was made by the German sculptor Adolf von Donndorf in 1899. The monument is located in Huet Square in Sibiu, in the courtyard of the Evangelical Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Monumentul lui Georg Daniel Teutsch din Sibiu (RO)

10. Liars Bridge

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The Bridge of Lies is a legendary pedestrian bridge located in the center of the Transylvanian city of Sibiu in central Romania. There are many legends surrounding the bridge because of its name. It is the first cast iron bridge built in Romania.

Wikipedia: Bridge of Lies (EN)

11. Statuia lui Gheorghe Lazăr

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Statuia lui Gheorghe LazărCezar Suceveanu / CC-BY-3.0

The statue of Gheorghe Lazar in Sibiu is a bronze monument dedicated to the Romanian scholar Gheorghe Lazar (1779-1823), which was made in 2006 by the sculptor Radu Aftenie. Currently, it is located in the Great Square in Sibiu.

Wikipedia: Statuia lui Gheorghe Lazăr din Sibiu (RO)

12. Pasajul Scărilor

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The Stairs Passage in Sibiu is a stone and brick passage in the city of Sibiu, which connected the Upper Town and the Lower Town. It was built in the fourteenth century and was part of the third ring of fortifications of the city.

Wikipedia: Pasajul Scărilor din Sibiu (RO)

13. Arquebusiers' Tower

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Arquebusiers' Tower Chainwit. / CC BY 4.0

The Arquebusiers' Tower of Sibiu, later called the Drapers' Tower, is a tower built in the fourteenth century in the city of Sibiu and which was part of the third ring of fortifications of the city. It is the southernmost of the three towers located on Cetății Street.

Wikipedia: Turnul Archebuzierilor din Sibiu (RO)

14. Potters’ Tower

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The Potters' Tower of Sibiu is a tower built in the fifteenth century by the Saxon potters' guild in the city of Sibiu. The tower was part of the city's third ring of fortifications. The Potters' Tower is one of the three towers located on str. Cetății, being located between the Arquebusiers' Tower and the Carpenters' Tower.

Wikipedia: Turnul Olarilor din Sibiu (RO)

15. Franz Binder World Ethnography Museum

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The "Franz Binder" Museum of Universal Ethnography is a department of the "ASTRA" National Museum Complex in Sibiu, which was inaugurated in 1993, in response to the principle of cultural otherness, of knowing one's own identity by comparing it with the values of other cultures. It operates in a building in Small Square no. 11 declared a historical monument.

Wikipedia: Muzeul de etnografie universală "Franz Binder" (RO), Website

16. Emil Sigerus Museum of Saxon Ethnography and Folk Art

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Emil Sigerus Museum of Saxon Ethnography and Folk Art

The project of establishing a museum unit of Saxon folk art within the "ASTRA" National Museum Complex in Sibiu started in 1997 and aimed to save, preserve and promote the tangible and intangible cultural heritage belonging to this minority, given the fact that Sibiu represented a fundamental space of residence for the Saxons.

Wikipedia: Muzeul de etnografie și artă populară săsească „Emil Sigerus” (RO), Website

17. Statuia Sf. Nepomuk

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The statue of Saint John Nepomuk in Sibiu is a stone monument dedicated to Saint John Nepomuk, which was placed in 1734 in the Great Square of Sibiu. It was dismantled in 1948 and stored in the courtyard of the Brukenthal Museum, being reinstalled in 1988 in the inner courtyard of the Roman Catholic parish house in the Great Square.

Wikipedia: Statuia lui Ioan Nepomuk din Sibiu (RO)

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