Stroll through Piata Sfatului, the historic main square, which is dotted with gorgeous baroque buildings and is said to be haunted, along with the yellow Trumpeter’s Tower. Europe’s last witch burning supposedly took place here.
Tour the city’s famed Black Church, the largest Gothic church between Vienna and Istanbul, built between 1383 and 1480. The exterior features spectacularly colorful paintings on the tower, and the inside is full of Anatolian carpets, gifts from merchants who had traveled through the Ottoman Empire.
Eat steak filet with b?arnaise sauce and mushrooms at Hirscher Keller, right off the main square, which is decorated with wall paintings of Transylvanian scenes (Str. Hirscher 2).
Visit Peles Castlein nearby Sinaia, with its towering turrets and exquisite statue garden, instead of the touristy Bran castle, which has been associated (wrongly) with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” During Nicolae Ceausescu’s reign, summits with world leaders were held here.
