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Sighisoara, the "Pearl of Transylvania" of yesteryear, considered today "the most beautiful inhabited city in Europe", raises its towers on the hill which dominates the most important gorge of the course of the Tarnava Mari. Founded according to tradition in 1191, but mentioned in a document in 1280 as Castrum Sex and then with the German castle Schesrpurch (1298). Sighisoara is the constructive work of German settlers (Saxons) brought to Transylvania to guard the ancient borders of the Hungarian kingdom in the 12th-13th centuries AD.
The architecture of Sighisoara is dominated by the Renaissance and Baroque styles, being the expression of a constructive effort that occurred relatively late, especially after the great fire of 1676. Of the old rural Gothic architecture, only as the two important churches of the Citadel: the Church of the Hill and the Church of the Monastery.
Older or more recent discoveries show that in the basement of the hill on which the current fortress is located, there are traces of dwellings and necropolises from the early Iron Age.
At the top of the hill of the Scolii, where the Church of the Hill and the Liceul are today, there was an earthen fortress with trenches and waves reinforced with palisades since antiquity, enlarged in the 12th century by the Scythians, destroyed in 1241 by the Tatars, demolished then leveled by the Saxons to make way for a medieval stone fortress serving as a refuge for the settlement on the hill. Around and under the protection of this initial fortress, the medieval city of Sighisoara developed in the 13th-15th centuries.

The clock tower :

One of the great monuments of Transylvania and at the same time a symbol of Sighisoara, and an expression of the constructive pride of the inhabitants of Sighisoara, who called themselves "the rough, the tough". It is the tower that protects the main gate of the Citadel.
In its current form, it is presented as a rectangular prism with massive walls (2.35 m thick at the base) on four levels and a balcony, topped with a Baroque roof. With the roof, the clock tower is 64 m high.The four turrets at the base of the roof symbolize the city's judicial autonomy. Until 1556, the first floor of the tower was the seat of the town hall.In the past, the entrance to the tower was via a mobile staircase which led to a small gallery located on the first floor. The entrance gate under the tower initially consists of two vaulted passageways, one for pedestrians and the other for carts protected by iron railings and gratings. The pedestrian bridge was built and converted into a prison and torture chamber for those sentenced to death in the Middle Ages.
The old symbol figurines brought by the craftsman Kirchel burned down in 1676, but the same craftsman rebuilt everything. The current mechanism was made in Switzerland in 1906 and retrofitted with an electric motor by craftsmen Konradt, father and son. Thanks to one of their innovations, the clock manages to work for another three hours after the interruption of the electric current. The Clock Tower was transformed into a museum in 1898.

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