The Council Tower
1588 — the finest view over the city.
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The city with eyes: Sibiu's Large Square is ringed by pastel Saxon houses that watch you from "eyes" — the famous narrow roof windows staring from every corner. Since the fifteenth century the square has been the city's stage: markets, executions and festivals, today cafés and the events of the international theatre festival each June. Around it stands everything: the Brukenthal palace, the Jesuit church, Haller House, and the Council Tower (1588), climbed on a token ticket to the finest view over the roofs and the Small Square behind — and beneath the tower a passage leads to the Small Square, the Bridge of Lies and the Lower Town with its stairways. Sibiu's old town is flat and closed to cars, and the square is the natural start and return of every walk.
1588 — the finest view over the city.
Roof windows that stare back.
Under the tower towards the Bridge of Lies.
Piața Mare, Sibiu
Brukenthal National MuseumRomania's first museum and among Europe's oldest: Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, g1 minute walk4.5
The Council Tower, SibiuA stone tower standing between Sibiu's large and small squares, working as a gat1 minute walk4.9
Huet SquareA square in Sibiu's Upper Town surrounding the great Evangelical church, the old2 minutes walk4.8
The Georg Daniel Teutsch MonumentA statue in Huet Square before the Evangelical Cathedral in Sibiu, to the bishop2 minutes walk4.5
History Museum in Altemberger HouseThe largest Gothic civic complex in Transylvania: Altemberger House, Sibiu's old2 minutes walk4.7Attic vents for drying grain and meat, their eyelid shape became Sibiu's emblem — legend says they watch strangers.