1. What territory does the destination include?

Colinele Transilvaniei is also known as the area of villages with fortified churches in southern Transylvania, in the space between Sibiu, Mediaș, Sighișoara, Rupea, and Făgăraș, along the valleys of Târnava Mari, Hârtibaci and on the right bank of the Olt. The destination covers parts of Sibiu, Brașov, and Mureș counties, including 44 UATs. The area became a Natura 2000 protected site more than 15 years ago, for the protection of birds, meadows with centuries-old trees, and numerous species of flora and fauna here. Few people know that here is the largest continental natural area in Romania, after the Danube Delta.

Along with the exceptional nature, you will find here a unique built heritage, with UNESCO Heritage monuments, such as the rural sites of Biertan, Saschiz, Valea Viilor, and Viscri. It’s a mosaic anthropic landscape, where you can visit dozens of medieval churches, silent witnesses of over 700 years of history written around them. For centuries, here, in the multicultural villages of this corner of Europe, as you rarely see anymore, communities of Saxons, Romanians, Hungarians and Roma lived, in harmony and balance with nature.