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   Black Church

   The largest Gothic church between Vienna and Istanbul, built between 1385 and 1477 and blackened by the fire that destroyed Brașov in 1689 — which gave it its name. It holds a Buchholz organ of 4,000 pipes and a collection of Anatolian carpets given by Saxon merchants.

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   St. Nicholas Church

   A Romanian Orthodox church dominating the Șchei district, among the oldest Orthodox churches in the country, whose stone building went up between 1495 and 1519 on the site of a wooden cross of 1292. Its churchyard holds the graves of the Romanian merchant families of Brașov.

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   Râșnov Citadel

   A medieval refuge fortress at Râșnov, of the type built so that townspeople and villagers could shelter inside during Ottoman and Tatar raids, with a well cut ninety-seven metres through rock. Romanians and Saxons garrisoned it in equal numbers.

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   Catherine's Gate

   A city gate of 1559 built by the tailors' guild to replace one destroyed by flood in 1526, and the only medieval gate of Brașov left standing. Its four corner turrets signified the town's right to execute; it is named after a former convent of St Catherine on the site.

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   Prejmer fortified church

   A Lutheran fortified church at Prejmer, begun by the Teutonic Knights about 1218 and the strongest fortified church in southeastern Europe, with walls twelve metres high and 272 rooms inside for the villagers. It became Lutheran at the Reformation and is a World Heritage site.

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   Neolog Jewish temple in Brașov

   The Beth Israel synagogue on Poarta Schei street, built to Lipot Baumhorn's design in the Hungarian Secession style and completed in 1901. Set back behind the street front among houses, it still holds services and is listed as a historic monument of Romania.

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   Șchei Gate

   A gate in the Șchei district beside Catherine's Gate, built between 1827 and 1828 to carry increased traffic. The much larger Catherine's Gate was mostly demolished at the same time, leaving only its outer tower.

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   Franciscan Church

   A Franciscan church in the old town at 7 Sf. Ioan street, medieval in origin and among the oldest churches inside the walls of Brașov. The friary buildings beside it were later put to other uses.

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   First Romanian School

   A museum in the buildings of St Nicholas Church in the Șchei district, presenting itself as the first school to teach in Romanian, from the fifteenth century. It holds early Romanian printed books and manuscripts, including work by the deacon Coresi, who printed here in the 1550s.

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    Orthodox synagogue in Brașov

    The Orthodox synagogue of Brasov, built in the mid-1920s and protected as a historic monument. Ceramic tiles on its main front carry two lions flanking a menorah, and it stands a short walk from the larger Neolog synagogue.

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   Șcheii Brașovului

   The historic Romanian quarter outside the walls to the south, where Romanians lived because they were barred from settling inside the Saxon town. The first Romanian-language school and press were therefore established here rather than in the centre.

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   Brașov Council Square

   The main square of the old town, a market place since the medieval period, with the fifteenth-century town hall in the middle — now the county history museum. Painted merchant houses line all four sides and the Black Church stands a street away.

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   Black Tower

   A watchtower of the fifteenth century on a rock west of the old town, built to strengthen the wall on that side. Lightning struck and scorched it in 1559, which is where the name comes from; a glass-roofed reconstruction now serves as a viewpoint.

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   Brașov County Museum of History

   The county history museum, in the old town hall on Council Square, covering Brașov's centuries as the trading pivot between Transylvania and the Ottoman lands. The guild records and craft tools are its core, and the tower can be climbed.

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   Castra Cumidava

   A Roman auxiliary fort in the province of Dacia, four kilometres northwest of Râșnov, on the eastern defensive line of the province. Excavation has traced its walls and barracks; finds are in the Brașov museums.

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   Museum of Urban Civilization

   A museum of urban life in an eighteenth-century merchant's house in Brașov, arranged room by room with the furniture, tools and crafts of the town's citizens. Its collection of guild chests and printed material covers the Saxon burgher culture.

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   Greek Church in Brașov

   A Romanian Orthodox church at 12 Gheorghe Barițiu Street dedicated to the Holy Trinity, built by the Greek merchants who settled in Brașov. It records how far the Greek trading network reached into Transylvania.

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   Saint Nicholas' church in Râșnov

   An Orthodox church at 14 Romulus Cristoloveanu Street in Râșnov, below the citadel, long used by the town's Romanian Orthodox community.

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   Dormition of the Theotokos church in Brașov

   An Orthodox church at 47 Bisericii Române Street in the Șchei district, known as Brașovechi, dedicated to the Dormition. It was a centre of Romanian-language worship in the town and shares its ground with the first Romanian school.

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    Pe Tocile Orthodox church

    An Orthodox church at 57 Vasile Saftu Street on the slope of the Tocile part of Șchei, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was one of the churches built as the Romanian settlement outside the walls grew.

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