Call of Romania (6): Pro Etnica

August 2008 The “Pro Etnica” festival I stumbled upon in Sighişoara is a fine thing. Most minorities in Romania send artists who perform on a scene in the main square of the medieval citadel, songs, dances and what not. The crowd is not as big and crazy like at the medieval festival, creating a very…

Call of Romania (1): Sighişoara

The mini-series on Romania was born out of the question that bugged me during the Northern trip: “how does all this compare to what we have at home?” In short, if you look at size, architecture, importance in European history, it doesn’t. We don’t have anything like the urban architecture of the city of Tallinn,…

Streets of Sighisoara – tribute

I wrote this small reportage for smugmug journeys, but since it is, actually, about …footsteps/shootsteps, i guess it belongs here as well, so – here we go… … A walk through Sighisoara is like a journey back in time. The city was built by German colonists called “Sachsen” (Saxons), who settled in starting with the…