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Extract from the Rsnov Travel Guides:
About 12km west of Poiana Brasov on the road to Bran, half an hour from Brasov by bus or train, is
RSNOV
(Rosenau to the Saxons), where a ruined
castle
crowns the fir-covered hill that overlooks the town. This was founded in the early thirteenth century by the Teutonic Knights (
Deutscheritterorden
), who were soon expelled from Transylvania, but what you see now are the remains of a fourteenth-century structure. To visit the castle (Tues-Sun 10am-6pm), head through the archway and up the steps opposite the BCR bank on Piata Unirii, just south of the Lutheran church. Under two hundred Saxons remain h...
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