Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania The south-eastern Transylvania region in Romania currently has one of the highest numbers of existing fortified churches from the 13th to 16th centuries. It has more than 150 well preserved fortified churches of a great variety of architectural styles (out of an original 300 fortified churches). Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania are seven villages (six Saxon and one Székely) founded by the Transylvanian Saxons. They are dominated by fortified churches and characterized by a specific settlement pattern that has been preserved since the late Middle Ages.
The Transylvania Times been in the Anderson family ever since and today is published by Stella Anderson Trapp. The Transylvania Times has won numerous writing, advertising and photography awards from the North Carolina Press Association and the National Newspaper Association. The Transylvania Times The Transylvania Times is a bi-weekly newspaper in Transylvania County, North Carolina in the United States, and its surrounding area. The paper was founded in 1887, and is family-owned and operated. It provides news coverage for Brevard, Pisgah Forest, Rosman, and Lake Toxaway, as well as the townships of Cathey’s Creek, Dunn’s Rock, Eastatoe, Gloucester, Hogback and Little River. The