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Extract from the Cisnadie and Cisnadioara Travel Guides:
Two or three buses an hour leave Sibiu's bus station for
CISNADIE
(Heltau), 12km to the south. Cisnadie's modern outskirts quickly give way to the old Red Town (so called by the Turks both for the colour of its walls and the blood that was shed attempting to breach them) - a long square leading to the largely Romanesque
church
, protected by a double wall and a moat. If you ask a warden, you may be taken up the massive thirteenth-century
tower
, fitted in 1795 with Transylvania's first lightning conductor; the climb takes you up a succession of lofty vaults linked by creaking ladders and narrow stai...
read the whole Cisnadie and Cisnadioara Travel Guides...
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