2-Day Medieval Transylvania Private Tour from Brasov, Romania

Also known as Dracula's Castle - a hilltop estate that conjures up visions of howling wolves and bats fluttering in the moonlight. Wander the castle's Gothic chambers and learn about its ties to Bram Stoker's undead antihero. Enter if you dare, after paying the site fee (own expense), and wander through the castle's many well-preserved rooms and chambers with your guide. Gothic furnishings and details help set the scene for ghastly legends of all that happened here, including the imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler. This 15th-century prince was notorious for his bloodthirsty campaigns against invading Turks and is said to have inspired Stoker's malevolent Count Dracula. The Biertan fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Biertan (Birthälm), Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Briefly Roman Catholic, it became Lutheran following the Reformation. Together with the surrounding village, the church forms part of the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discover the only city in Romania which looks exactly the same way as in the XVIth century - Sighisoara. Take a trip in time on this one-day tour, or simply get all the inside information in a walking tour if you are travelling on your own. Overnight at a 3-star Hotel.

Sibiu - serving as capital and dominating cultural activity. Sibiu is home to the first hospital in Romania (1292), the first pharmacy (1494) and the oldest museum in Romania, the Brukenthal Museum, which opened in 1817. We will also visit the Astra open-air village museum. Situated in the natural reservation of Dumbrava Sibiului, on the road to Rasinari village and to Paltinis ski resort, 8km away from the city centre, the Open Air Museum spreads across a 96 ha area of which an area of 40ha is covered by the permanent exhibition which is the largest open-air ethnographic exhibition in Europe. Visit a remarkable fortress - Rupea - with three rings, dating from the 14th century, built on a basalt rock. Inside the fortress, there is a well 60m deep. The water is still drinkable. Situated right in the heart of central Romania, the Fagaras fortress in the town of the same name represents one of Eastern Europe's largest and best-preserved feudal Castle complexes. Unquestionably the most-visited site in the medieval old town of the city, the castle was once the kingpin of regional power. Throughout the 17th century, the citadel was expanded continuously, reflecting the growing wealth of a centre that exercised control over much of Transylvania and central Romania.