The Făgăraş Country Museum is the museum of a historical and ethnographic area representative for Romania, which was established starting with 1923 on the basis of the patrimony collected by professor Valer Literat, under the aegis of ASTRA.
Sâmbăta de Sus is the village of residence of the commune of the same name in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is located in the Făgăraș depression, at the northern foot of the Făgăraș Mountains. It is mentioned in a documentary on January 20, 1437.
Brâncoveanu Monastery Sâmbăta de Sus, for monks, initially with a wooden church with a double patron saint (Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Healing Spring, built in 1657, on the initiative of the vornic Preda Brâncoveanu.
Brâncoveanu Castle, located in the western sector of Sâmbăta de Sus village, as an area of tourist interest. It was restored in 2010, receiving a new coat but respecting the original design and the Brancoveanu style. The restoration was done with private capital with the consent of the Ministry of Culture.
The mounds from Șona known as “guruieţe” and present in relief in the form of 8 well-contoured mounds (plus a few smaller, slightly contoured ones), were compared by occasional tourists and researchers with earth pyramids, mounds, tombs. or Dacian vestiges. The large number of curious people and the enigmas around them were the premises for starting this research, which aims to establish answers to the questions: What are gurus? Since when are they? Who built them? What is inside them?
Fagaras City App is an application aimed at both tourists and locals that is dedicated to the Fagaras city area, in Romania.
The app offers detailed information on most attractive POIs and events in the area, as well as on existing local services (hotels, guest houses, restaurants, bars, shops, supermarkets).
