The entrance in an old, middle age dating house from downtown Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Transylvania. A city already mentionned in documents in 1191 as Cibinium and having a rich and interesting history. In the XV century - despite his large protection walls and towers - the Turks and even Vlad the Empaler, the model for Dracula, burnt down the city a few times. And Dracula, or Draculya as he signed himself some documents (still existing in the archives) lived a couple of years in Sibiu, after his marriage to the sister of Matei Corvin, the same King of Hungary (half Romanian) who kept him prisoner for a decade or so...
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