villages Transylvania with fortified churches offers a vivid picture of the cultural landscape of southern Transylvania. The seven villages in question are characterized by a specific system of land cultivation, a model of settlement and organization of peasant households, preserved since the Middle Ages, dominated by their fortified churches, which illustrate the building periods of the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. XVI.
These have been included in UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Romania's National Commission for UNESCO[1]