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Extract from the Fagaras Travel Guides:
FAGARAS
(Fogarasch), 54km west of Brasov, has a reputation as an ugly town, dominated by chemical works and scarred by Ceausescu's attempts at town planning, but it has its attractive aspects, and even some small-town charm in places. It also has a unusually wide range of small cheap hotels and makes a useful base for the mountains to the south and the Saxon villages just to the north. Between 1366 and 1460, the town and the surrounding duchy of Amlas were under Wallachian rule, but when Vlad the Impaler was dispossessed of his fiefdom, he set out on a murderous rampage from the Red Tower Pass, west of the Fagaras range, towards the Burzen L...
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