Transylvanian villages with fortified churches provides a lively cultural landscape of southern Transylvania. These villages theme are based on a specific system for cultivation of the land, a settlement pattern and organization by farms, preserved since the Middle Ages. The ‘burgs’ as the saxons used to call them, are dominated by their fortified churches, which illustrate building periods from XIII century until the sixteenth century.
Biserici fortificate – Dealurile Târnavelor – Saschiz, Archita, Mãlâncrav si Biertan – aerials from Ghid Video Turistic on Vimeo.
