Guard galleries
Four timber storeys inside the walls.
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Each Saxon craft — weavers, smiths, tailors — built a tower or bastion and manned and armed it; the surviving towers still carry the trades' names.
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The most complete survivor of Brașov's walls: the Weavers' Bastion at the south-eastern corner was built between 1421 and 1436 on four storeys of timber guard galleries inside walls two metres thick — every craft guild of the Saxon town built and defended its own bastion, and this one fell to the weavers. Inside is the museum of the fortifications with a huge model of Brașov as it stood in 1600, walls and towers complete — the best way to understand the town you are walking — alongside guild weapons and banners. Its inner courtyard hosts summer concerts beneath the walls. It sits directly at the foot of Tâmpa, so it pairs with the cable car or with the southern wall walk past the old towers along the shaded path under the forest.
Four timber storeys inside the walls.
Walls and towers complete on a table.
Strada George Coșbuc 9, Brașov