Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Sibiu, Romania

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

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)

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

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)

Samuel von Brukenthal National College is a German-language high school founded in Nagyszeben, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, today in Sibiu, Sibiu County, Romania.

Wikipedia: Samuel von Brukenthal National College (EN), Website

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)

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

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)

The Museum of Transylvanian Civilization "ASTRA" operates in a historic building in Sibiu, in the Small Square, no. 11.

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

The Council Tower of Sibiu is a tower situated between the two main squares of the Historic center in Sibiu, the Great Square and the Small Square.

Wikipedia: Council Tower of Sibiu (EN)

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)

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

Piața Mare is a city square in Sibiu, Romania.

Wikipedia: Piața Mare (EN)