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| Sighisoara, Romania |
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| Medieval Festival 2013 Vlad Tepes |
Sighisoara Medieval Festival this year celebrates 20
years of existence. For 10 days, the city is seized by music, theater, medieval
fighting schools, all under the patronage of Her Royal Highness, Margaret, Princess
of Romania.
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| Medieval Festival Sighisoara |
The festival runs from July 20 to 29, this year's theme
is "600 Years of Struggle and Faith - Joan of Arc".
Like every year, the city becomes home to dozens of
medieval knights, monks, wizards, clowns and minstrels, as well as for medieval
music singers and street jesters.
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| Medieval Festival Sighisoara |
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| Medieval Festival |
This year, spectators can attend schools of medieval
fighting, be sentenced to death, take part inprocessions, public trials and
even witch burnings.
A new feature this year is the medieval blacksmiths,
where craftsmen will make a Transylvanian Excalibur, a sword that is 2.5 meters
tall. This sword will remain in view in Sighisoara as the symbol of the
Medieval Festival.
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| Citadel on the Hill |
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| Sighisoara Citadel |
In the 13th century, German craftsmen and merchants,
known as Saxons, were ordered by the Hungarian sovereigns to colonize
Transylvania and protect the border of the Carpathians against the steppe
peoples. They settled on a hill, called the City Hill, which has revealed
traces of occupation going back to the Palaeolithic period.
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| Sighisoara Covered Stairway |
