March 18 to 19, 2026
A walk after dark:
Clock tower
The Butchers Tower
Covered staircase to the school
The Bootmakers Tower
In the morning:
Casa cu Cerb (Antler House)
Elaborately-carved door
Clavichord
Sfantul Ioromi (St. Jerome) Painting
City Crest
Clock mechanism
Days of week figurines. Being a Thursday, the God of Thunder (Thor) is visible from the exterior. Yesterday was Mercury, while tomorrow is Venus. Like the French Mercredi and Vendredi, the words for Wednesday and Ftiday in Romania are based on Mercury and Venus.
On the Clock tower deck
View to the lower city
Tanners Tower (small one behind the green house) and Tinsmiths Tower. The Church on the hill in the background
Piaţi Cetăţii
Monastery Church Steeple
Colorful houses
The Ropemakers Tower next to the Church on the Hill
In the Church on the Hill:
Frescoes depicting St. George
Vibrant blue angel wings
In the crypt
Young woman from New York singing on the altar
Biserica din Deal (Church on the Hill)
School to which the covered walkway leads
The Butchers and Furriers Towers
Covered walkway
Butchers Tower
Tailors Tower
Courtyard of Armaments Museum
Bookmakers Tower
Vlad Ţepeş, the town's most famous native son
Indulgences from 1298 granting Dominicans right to establish a Monastery at Schassburg
Interior of The Monastery Church
The organ (late 1600s) has over 2,000 pipes
The Last Supper depicts the faces of the contemporaneous council members
Top: Dead from World War II. Bottom: Those who never returned from Soviet Captivity
Coopers Guild
Ropemakers Guild
Ironsmiths Guild
Tanners Guild
God offering protection to the church. A recent filmmaker asserted it depicted a UFO
Bookmakers Guild
Keeping gods word in your heart
Stork nest northeast of Bistriţa on the drive to Bukovina
Dusk on the Carpathians
At Campulung Moldenesc
