Culture and wine in Old Saxon Land

About Tour

Here we’ll enjoy the Saxon culture, cuisine, winemaking and their way of living. We’ll visit cities, villages, vineyards, citadels, different elements that describe as a whole this region of south and central Transylvania.

1 st Day

Arrival in Sibiu

Included highlights:

  • Meeting with your local guide.
  • Transfer to the hotel. Check-in.
  • Short city walking tour
  • Short presentation of the journey about Transylvania and its things to offer.
  • Dinner and wine tasting.
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Included meals:
  • Dinner
2 nd Day

Castle life

Included highlights:

  • City tour of Sibiu
  • Depart to Tirnaveni,
  • Stop in Medias,
  • Visit of Blaj.
  • The extraordinary Greek Catholic cathedral.
  • Lunch in an old castle at Jidvei vineyard, and obviously we’ll enjoy a special wine tasting. Jidvei is the most important vineyard for dry white wines, their famous brand being the "Riesling from Jidvei".
  • Return to Sibiu.
  • Dinner.

Included meals:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
3 rd Day

Full day in the Old Saxon area

Included highlights:

  • Visit Biertan
  • Special Saxon type lunch at Viscri - Weisskirch.
  • Talk to the mayor who is a Saxon lady and her mother.
  • See Prince Charles Foundation charity activity in this region to save this civilization.
  • Tasting an exceptional plum brandy and local wines.
  • Stop and visit Sighisoara, the only inhabited medieval citadel, the Rothenburg of Eastern Europe.
  • Dinner.

Included meals:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
4 th Day

Saxon villages

Included highlights:

  • Visit some Saxon villages
  • We’ll stop and perhaps manage to have a chat with a famous Saxon writer in Germany and not only, the Lutheran priest Eginald Schlattner.
  • Lunch in Agnethen, one of the 7 "Sieben Burgen" or in Cincu in the local restaurant.
  • Stop wherever will be possible and try to visit several Saxon fortified churches.
  • Dinner.

Included meals:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
5 th Day

Sibiu and its Surroundings

Included highlights:

  • See the surroundings of Sibiu - cultural capital of Europe in 2007.
  • The biggest and well preserved village museum just outside from Sibiu;
  • The basilica from Heltau
  • Saxon lunch in the basilica from Heltau
  • Free time for last shopping possibility
  • Farewell dinner outside Sibiu at the Romanian family’s home, and again we’ll enjoy wine.

Included meals:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
6 th Day

Departure

Included highlights:

  • Transfer to the airport with your guide.

Included meals:
  • Breakfast

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Natalia – is not just the best guide, but a reliable person with whom you never worry about the tour. When we need an English-speaking guide for the program, we never think whom to call. For us the most important thing is to know whether Natalia has possibility for that period. 

Only working with her we are sure that the work will be perfectly done. She knows a lot, the tourists are always satisfied. 

Dear Victoria, thank you so much for making my trip to Moldova memorable. Your knowledge, charm and beauty are incomparable. How lucky of me to get the best guide in Moldova for my visit.

Hello Victoria, Thank you again so much for the tours last week! I had a lot of fun, and you are an excellent guide. Orheiul Vechi was really beautiful, and some of the photos came out very nice. I also really liked Chateau Vartely, so thank you for coming up with the idea to visit there. 

Tiraspol was quite interesting and bizarre, and I'm glad we went, even with the cold and rain. The Kvint distillery was very good. I had to resist finishing the whole bottle. I hope I'll be able to visit Moldova again sometime before too long. I will also let you know whenever I come to Romania.