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The white fortified church at Viscri behind its ring wall

Viscri and the Saxon villages

Fortified churches and working farms, visited with the people who still hold the keys.

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A scatter of Saxon villages north of Brașov, each built around a fortified church. The Saxon population largely left after 1990; the villages that survived did so on farming and, latterly, on visitors who come in small numbers.

We visit two or three in a day, with lunch at a farm, and we go with the people who hold the church keys rather than around them.

Experiences that leave from here

Blog posts about Viscri and the Saxon villages

Gravel street in a Saxon village in autumn, a row of gabled farmhouses in yellow, orange and cream, wooded hills behind

The Saxon villages in autumn: who holds the key, and when to go

The fortified churches around Viscri keep no museum hours: the key- someone in the village. Why autumn's the best time to go, who opens the door, what the tower's for, and when to arrive so the light's still on your side

By Mara, the GuideSibiu team