Sighişoara (Hungarian: Segesvár, German: Schäßburg) is a town in Mureş, Transylvania, Romania. Its population is 32,287 (2002).
Founded by German craftsmen and merchants, known as the Saxons of Transylvania, the historic centre of Sighişoara has preserved in an exemplary way the features of a small, fortified, medieval town, which played an important strategic and commercial role at the edges of Central Europe for several centuries.
Each year, in July, a Medieval Festival takes place in the old citadel.
It has been listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a World Heritage Site.
Owing to its connection to the myth of Dracula through the prince Vlad Tepes, who was born here, the construction of a Dracula theme park in Sighişoara is being considered.
Sighisoara reveals itself nowadays too like a genuine city museum offering the modern visitor the rare opportunity to do a travel back in time, in the medieval atmosphere of some centuries ago.
So, not far from Sighisoara, on the Podmoale plateau, there are traces of a Roman military fortification (castrum) where a cohort of the 13th Legion GEMINA with the headquarters at Alba Iulia Apulum was stationed.
Sighisoara is included nowadays into the UNESCO patrimony, a medieval European town, whose old buildings are still in a functional state and well kept.
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