You fall in love with the city of Sighisoara at first sight. You feel like in a fairy tale. The Middle Ages here are not gloomy but colorful and festive. You want to wander the streets endlessly, look at the signs and tiled roofs, fences, spires, and unexpectedly find the ruins of the fortress wall here and there to discover that people still live there.

Sighisoara is the last inhabited medieval citadel in Europe. Without the Citadel, the city and people would not have survived. Sighisoara was even called the key to Transylvania.

The construction of the Citadel began in the 14th century. It was funded by donations: the city treasury and benefactors financed the wall and the representatives of various professional guilds – the towers. Together, they surrounded the city with thick walls, city gates, and 9 towers: Ironsmiths', Bootmakers', Butchers', Tailors', Tinsmiths', Tanners', Ropemakers', Furriers', and the Clock Tower (it is the highest one, 64 meters). The Clock Tower was a fortress within a fortress. Since the 16th century, it has housed the city treasury, the military arsenal (until the gunpowder exploded), and meetings of the city council.

In the later 17th century, the first clock with mechanical figurines appeared. From the inside, one can see the Drummer, the Goddess of Peace with an olive branch in her hands, and the Goddess of Justice. The two angels symbolize Day and Night. The first one appears at 6 am, and the second one, with two candles, at 6 pm. Figurines on the clock correspond to the days of the week and represent Roman deities: Mars, Mercury, Diana, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. The main figure located above all is the Sun.

Today, the Clock Tower houses several museums at once, including a museum of guilds, which displays items related to the activities of each of them. Gather yourself and climb to the observation deck. Its main advantage is that you can go around the perimeter of the tower and take the most beautiful panoramic photos of the city. Up there, you forget that it`s the 21st century: smoke from chimneys, a red sea of ​​tiled roofs, lush greenery, and calm life, which seems to be frozen.