Transylvania has a lot of cities with medieval history, most of them have a historical city center and a new city center as well. So yesterday I took a walk along the old streets of a Mediaș, a city with more than 700 years of history.
The old medieval city center is surrounded by a defense wall, that has been restored not long ago. This part of the wall is situated above the farmers market and the cool alley I'm going to talk about later in this post.
As you can see, the lower part of the wall is made of stones, that is the original section, the rest is made of bricks and it's regular. That was added later during the restoration works. The wall was built between the 15th and 17th century and it is considered historical monument.
This side of the wall looks like a regular wall, but in fact there are houses attached to the other side of wall, just can't figure it out where the entrances are.
There are a lot of holes in the wall, used for shooting the enemy. Here these wholes were so high I could not take any good photos of them, but in the next part, you will see some.
I'm not sure if this one is considered a bastion, I suppose not, but regardless, people should respect history and treat it as precious heritage, instead of spraying paint on it. These acts of vandalism do no good to anyone, but those who are doing it, don't understand.
That wooden balcony looks very inviting. Most likely it's inhabited, so visiting it is off limits but would be nice to see the view from up there.
These doors are so low, one would have to bend in order to go in.
Another balcony, or more like a place for the guard back in those days.
Even though the wall has been renovated, the walls of the houses are in a deplorable state. Windows need to be preserved in their original style but unfortunately most of them are either broken or cracked. I tried to avoid the parts where the garbage started build up, to now show you the bad image of the city. Also, be glad you can't feel the smell I had to endure during this photo shoot. I came to realize what is history to some, mans absolutely nothing to others.
Beneath the wall, there's an alley where you can sit down and enjoy the shades provided by these old trees, admire the walls, you can watch your kids playing or you can have a training session yourself.
"Birds Of The City", this is how these birds are called. Sculpture inaugurated in 1998.
Meet Hansel and Gretel.
"Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister. source
Now that you saw this part of the wall, imagine the role of the wall was once to protect the city and its citizens. This wall ran around the city and the gates were closed in case there was an attack.
Come with me, next time I'll show you the other part of the wall.
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