"The hiden Alba Iulia" a Alba Iulia Travel Page by tengere

For understand the importance I tell you thet in XVI century Transylvania was a place for religious refugees of all Europe and John Sylvan in Heidelberg was decapitated only because he was surpresed with a book which was edited in Alba Iulia , capital of Transylvania.
Try to look this city trouh his history and you must visit it to understand Transylvania even if many building are very silent.The catholic chiurch is the memory of the city. Is an romanesque -gothic church. It was reformed church too before the austrian occupation.
Here are the sculptured sarchophages and the memorial of all important (catholic, calvinist, unitarian) voievods of Transylvania that remember their Golden Age. (Hunyadi Iancu and his brother Laszlo, Isabella Queen and his son John Sigismund, Stephen Bocskai) and priest who suffered cause of communist persecution because they defended the jews and the greek catholics from persecution, by example Martpon Aron

The Palace of Principality is near the catholic chiurch, but is austere and not visitable too.Here was a kind of athenian democratycal system. Prince Bethlem Gabor builded schools (today house of army- not visitable).
For undertand the importance I tell you thet in XVI century Transylvania was a place for religious refugees of all Europe and John Sylvan in Heidelberg was decapitated only because he was surpresed with a book which was edited in Alba Iulia , capital of Transylvania.
Try to look this city trouh his history and you must visit it to understand Transylvania even if many building are very silent.