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UNESCO inscribed the historic centre in 1999; the protected core covers about 33 hectares with a surrounding buffer of roughly 145 hectares.
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Sighișoara
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Vlad III the Impaler was born in Sighișoara's orbit, but the city's real historical value is its Saxon urban fabric—not a Dracula theme set.
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The surviving defensive towers were assigned to craft guilds, turning medieval trades into the city skyline—tailors, tinsmiths, bootmakers and others each defended a segment.
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Sighișoara's citadel is not a preserved shell: UNESCO recognizes it as a small, still-inhabited fortified town shaped by Transylvanian Saxon culture.
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Romania