Sibiu, a place that steals your heart!

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Sibiu is the kind of city that makes you want to cry because it's so beautiful!

I arrived in Sibiu after an easy bus ride from Cluj Napoca and settled into my hostel which was perfectly located a stair case away from main town.

As I arrived I checked in and talking to the volunteer he told me that the whole week was Sibiu's famous theater festival and that around the old town they have had super cool performances and that it was the last day of the festival.

View from the hostel

I took my time to settle in then went out for lunch and walked the pedestrian street in the old town and found a couple of performers walking around entertaining people. It was so cool!

The streets of the small town were so cute! Many shops lined up the streets, especially pastry shops selling all kinds of sweet delights!

Pastry shop on the right.

I kept walking and was so in love with the beauty of Sibiu!

Walking the bridge of lies

Some people were gathering by a plaza so I decided to check out what was going on and then realized that they were scheduled shows in different parts of the city where one could go and watch for free. I stood there amongst the crowd and watch an amazing show called cupid. This guy started the show in a woman's night gown and little by little he transformed himself into cupid and gave a spectacular show with the help of many volunteers, mainly children.

After watching cupid I decided to go out of the main town and get lost for a bit before the next performance. All the streets near Sibiu's old town were so charming! I especially loved the roofs that looked like they had eyes looking at you... a little creepy, but still cute!

The weather wasn't the best, the sky had dark clouds, it was raining on and off, but even without the best lighting I found the city to be so beautiful and so unique. The rustic look of it, with most of the houses looking like they needed an extra coat of paint gave the city character, it made me feel like I had just walked back to a place somewhen in the middle age.

Kids hanging out in one of the town's square.

After some time walking out of the main streets I went back for yet another show on the small square, this time a couple of french guys.

From the show I made it back to the main square where the big spectacle for the closing of the festival began! A huge electronic mosquito looking thing came out of one side street and made it through the crowd and into the big square. Hanging from two of the legs were some acrobats and on the back two violinists were standing. It was so weird but so cool!

Ok... this was crazy! The violin players were not just only violin players but also acrobats who could hang from two strings and be upside down and still play and hold their violin in place! it was impressive!!! This is a real festival, not the joke of Kapana festival in Plovdiv!

The following day I spent it walking around town and checking out more of the landmarks of beautiful Sibiu!

The last thing I did was to go up the councel tower and get an amazing view of Sibiu from up top!

The beautiful Cathedral of Sibiu!

Sadly only after two days I had to go but this medieval town for sure stole a piece of my heart!

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Andrea

Hi! It's me... Andrea! In 2016 I decided to drop everything and take a year to enrich my life and travel around the world. It turns out the world is just too big for 12 months! Still on the road and sharing my experience as a solo female traveler around the globe!