NEWS

Saxon Meeting in Sibiu
23 may 2008 AD

For three days the center of Sibiu and the Dumbrava forrest will host the 8th Saxon Meeting.

The official opening of this year's Saxon meeting will take place at around 5 p.m., at the German Forum. In the Mirror Hall severall documentaries will be screened, and from 9 p.m. there will be a rock concert at the „Samuel von Brukenthal" National College.

The celebration will begin on Saturday with a traditional Saxon costume parade. According to the organisers, it will start from the Bruckenthal Highschool, following the direction of the Small Square- Large Square- Balcescu Street- Cetatii Street- Ghe. Lazar Street- Thalia Hall, from where the participants will go by buses to the Dumbrava forrest. There there will be an artistic program which will begin at around 11 a.m. and then, at 4 p.m. at the FDGR premises there will be debates on the subject "The new and the old Sibiu", the motto of this year's Saxon meeting. In the evening there will be a party at the Dumbrava Motel.

On Sunday, after the mass at the Evangelic church, the meeting will go on with an artistic program in the Huet Square.



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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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