The legend
It creaks under liars — try it.
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Romania's first cast-iron bridge and its most famous urban legend: built in 1859 to cross between the Small Square and the Lower Town over Ocnei street, slender in its iron ornament and the city's crest — the name from the tales: it is said to creak and shake under anyone who lies, that merchants who cheated were thrown from it, that girls swore their virtue on it and it collapsed beneath the false. The likelier origin is linguistic: the German "lying bridge" (reclining) heard as "bridge of lies". The bridge itself takes minutes, but its surroundings an hour: the Small Square with its Gothic arcades and cafés, the House of Arts with its arches, and the view from the bridge over the Lower Town's roofs with the cathedral spire behind you — the most photographed angle in Sibiu, above all lit at night.
It creaks under liars — try it.
Gothic arcades and cafés under the arches.
Piața Mică, Sibiu
The Stairway TowerA thirteenth-century tower and vaulted passage linking Sibiu's upper town to its1 minute walk4.8
The Evangelical CathedralSibiu's tallest spire: the Gothic Lutheran cathedral (fourteenth century) lifts 1 minute walk4.8
The Georg Daniel Teutsch MonumentA statue in Huet Square before the Evangelical Cathedral in Sibiu, to the bishop1 minute walk4.5
Huet SquareA square in Sibiu's Upper Town surrounding the great Evangelical church, the old2 minutes walk4.8
The Council Tower, SibiuA stone tower standing between Sibiu's large and small squares, working as a gat2 minutes walk4.9The Upper Town on the plateau for nobles and merchants with its three squares; the Lower Town beneath for craftsmen with its coloured streets — linked by this bridge and the Stairs Passage.