NEWS

Medias - Medieval Fortress Festival
12 jun 2008 AD

This year's sixth edition will take place between 10 - 13 July.

This edition comes with lots of new events for all those who will be in Medias for four days.
Here's what it's about:

  • The exhibition of the Hungarian plastic artist Kutas Laszlo which will take place in the Town Library.
  • The "Medieval Camp" for knights and ladies; this year not only the knights from Sibiu, Brasov or Suceava are invited, but everyone who wants to come!
  • "Wine street" is another premiere of this year's festival. It will take place in the old center of the town and it will gather the representatives of the most important wine yards in the country. There will even be a "Princess Wine 2008" beauty contest.
  • There will also be plenty of contests for those who enjoy photography, film making and writing.
  • The Artistic Camp -oil portraits made by pupils studying in Art Schools.



During the festival, the streets of the town will be filled with costumed people and craftsmen coming from Bucharest, Alba, Arad, Arges, Bihor, Brasov, Bistrita-Nasaud, Cluj, Covasna, Dambovita, Dolj, Galati, Harghita, Hunedoara, Maramures, Mures, Neamt, Sibiu, Suceava and Valcea counties will prove their skills in from of those who want to find out the secrets of the traditional art while the medieval music will entertain the guests.
FOCUS
Copsa Mare / Grosskopisch
A free commune of the old Fundus Regius, Copsa Mare used to have some of the most vast and famous vineyards of the region, "The Wine Country". Two churches are mentioned as being used in this town. In the early 14th century, the holy service was recorded as being held in a three-nave gothic basilica; a 1283 document introduces the hypothesis of an earlier church.

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Fortified Churches Multimedia CD
15 EUR
Over 400 images revealing 44 saxon villages from Transylvania and their Fortified Churches, historical facts and architectural information, 19 local legends, an interactive map of the site, explicit hand-made drawings on how were the churches made, a see-through section ; all this toghether with a large, easy-to-use dictionary which will accurately explain all the specific or not so well-known terms you will come upon. Available in 5 languages: Romanian, German, English, Hungarian, French


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