For sale House with 1.328sqm land suitable for a beautiful getaway resort Viscri, Judetul Brasov, Romania

Description

House in the saxon village where traditions come back to life

Live like royalty in one of the most famous Saxon villages of Transylvania, Romania. Viscri! Follow in the footsteps of HRH King Charles who has also acquired a property here attracting many tourists each year!

Rare opportunity to buy a property in the famous village Viscri

Viscri is part of the part of UNESCO World Heritage. Opportunies to buy a property in Viscri are rare. 

BLISS Imobiliare offers you the possibility to enlarge the size of this property and create an excellent village hotel or get away resort.

For more information contact BLISS Imobiliare

• Viscri: The Saxon Village Where Traditions Come Back to Life Source

With a history that goes back to the 12th century, Viscri is maybe the most famous village in Romania. HRH King Charles’ visits, its fortified church, and the activity of the Mihai Eminescu Trust helped this small village reinvent itself in the past years. Its promotion was such a success that Viscri is right now one of Transylvania’s must-see attractions.

Viscri is best-known for its white fortified church, first mentioned in 1400 as Alba Ecclesia. Like most monuments of the time, the church went through different construction phases. The local Szekler population was the first to build a small church on the site in the early 12th century. Decades later, the German colonists took over control of the land and started a new chapter in its history.

During the 13th century, they built the main tower on the west side and enlarged the nave of the church towards the east. Its fortification started later, during the 15th century, and is partially preserved until today. Parts of its fortification elements were demolished after the Ottoman threat disappeared or were used for more peaceful purposes like storage rooms and kindergarten space.

In the last couple of years, the village was part of an ambitious community project of reviving traditions that almost disappeared. Thanks to it, you can visit local artisans that carry on practicing skills usually performed only during museum events. The community was so successful in its rediscovery traditions that today they are part again of local life.

The blacksmith brothers will show you how they make horseshoes and nails the old-fashioned way, while the hard-working Gheorghita will explain how he burns hand-made bricks and tiles in an incandescent earth oven. Plus, locals still use horse carts. You can always go for a ride to the pastures outside the village, while in the evenings you’ll enjoy a mouth-watering dinner prepared with fresh local ingredients.

More than just a tourist attraction, Viscri is the best example of well-done community tourism. It offers plenty of activities for all those curious to discover the typical village life of Transylvania. We hope this will be the norm and not the exception. It also depends on us to encourage this model by visiting destinations based on the values of responsible tourism.

• History, attractions, accommodation Source

In the 12th century the king Gesa II called Luxembourg settlers (latin:Saxones, germ. Sachsen) to populate the East part of this kingdom, Transylvania. Why?

And which reasons pushed this people to quit their land to come in the far, wild, wooden counties of Transylvania?

Later, more than 200 churches of the villages received fortifications. Why, in a time when the canon law does not allow the fortification of santuary only in exceptional cases? Why so many efforts of these communities?

Viscri is only one of the Saxon villages of Transylvania. Of course, is a special one, due to his great fortified church which is part of UNESCO World Heritage.

When the Saxons came here, at the end of 12th century, they have found a little chappel, which suffered transformations during the time. The actual church of Viscri is a romanesque chapel enlarged in the early 16th century to form a single-nave church, with a fortified storey resting on semicircular arches supported by massive buttresses; walls strengthened in the 17th century (UNESCO description). A very interesting museum is part of the citadel.

The documents tell that the village of Viscri was allways a free community, never being part of a noble property.

Still now, Viscri is a small village, with no more than 500 inhabitants, from which only about 27 are Saxons. People say that Viscri hide the most picturesque fortified church of the Saxons from Transylvania.

Viscri is also known due to the great job in restoring done by the Mihai Eminescu Trust, the foundation patroned by The Prince of Wales. What is less known is that the work and the efforts of the foundation covers not only Viscri, but many other Saxon villages in Transylvania ( Crit, Mesendorf, Malancrav, Saschiz).

The village is located in the center of Romania, close to Sighisoara (40km). You have to quit the main road (DN13/E60) in Bunesti, and then a paved road will bring you here (8km).

We encourage you to stay in the area more than few hours. Think to visit not only a fortified church, but to explore the country life of Transylvania. Try local food and accommodation. You will enjoy it!

For more information, contact BLISS Imobiliare team!