Highlights

• Stand before the yellow house where Vlad the Impaler was supposedly born and the name Dracula was forged

• Climb a covered wooden staircase built so children could reach their school through deep winter snow

• Decode a centuries-old clock whose two faces hide Roman gods, alchemical metals, and a midnight ritual

• Trace the guild towers whose stored gunpowder turned one fire into the disaster that remade the town

• Read the German graves of the Saxon community that built this citadel over thirty generations and then vanished