Travel in Romania #1 --------Targu Mures and the road to the house among the fortifications

popavasile (30)in #travel • 7 years ago (edited)

Last year in December we ran a weekend in Târgu Mureş. It was the first time I had a chance to see the city, because in May when I was taking the plane to Budapest, I had seen only the railway station and the area where I exchanged money:)) so I had no idea what it looked like, nor more, nor did I had left a good impression.

I will only tell you about the way I'm going to tell you that, after all, I realized how cool it was to get somewhere far away from home, go on Friday night and not drive :P I took a minibus in Bucharest at 7 o'clock and we had to get there a little before 2 o'clock in the evening, but the road was free we arrived with approx. an hour earlier. It was just cold and though the heat was on, the driver smoked and opened the window regularly, so there were no more than 15 degrees in the minibus and I stood still.

I'll tell you about the way back. Sunday morning, even though the weather was very ugly, we said we should go through the center before going to Bucharest to taste a little bit of Târgu Mureş.

The Palace of Culture

Prefecture

Câteva detalii drăguţe de pe faţada interesantă a Palatului Culturii:

The Wall of the Medieval Fortress

Peacock near the Medieval Fortress

I was sorry that the weather did not keep with us and we could not walk at will, and not so scratch, because the center of Targu Mures is really beautiful. I said! :)

On the way back I had set up a plan, namely, to cross through Dârlos and Axente Sever to see the fortified churches where I did not pass in 2009 and eventually stop at Slimnic Fortress, to see it again and because Adriana and Bogdan they had not seen her yet.

And because I was not the driver this time, I did not have a map, so Bogdan drew his route on a paper in the morning, staring at google maps. Well, good. But he chose a short road that took us straight to Dârlos. But as many of us have learned something, in most cases shorter roads are more ....

Unpaved

What you see above and below is the DJ142A. But let me tell you how I got here.

It is done as follows: take a small road from Târgu Mureş to Ungheni, E60, meaning DN15.

At a turning point, it turns left on the DJ151B to Cerghizel. When you reach the Upper Chapel, turn right on DJ142 road to Găneşti and then turn BRUSC left onto DJ142A towards Băgaciu.

Eh, after we entered the DJ142A we went what we went and we waited to enter Băgaciu but we came to a certain moment in a "settlement" and we gave it to the right, not to the other but the asphalt road to the left no longer exist. The problem was that it did not look too pink at the right, so I say, let's ask these people on the side of the road, so we do not lose, but anyway, of course, it's good. And I ask: Do you not mind, do you mind, to Băgaciu? They see the world look strangely at me. The reason was simple: the setting in which we were, was even Baghdad, with no indication, nothing. So I asked about the next village forgotten by the world that we knew we had to move on, namely Curciu. And we did not all wonder at all when they actually showed us the left-handed road.

And so here we are:

At first the road does not look really good, it's a good luck that it was not muddy ... so we went into the net on the phone to see how many miles we're going in that shit. Unfortunately, there were not a few, maybe 20 or something if I remember well, but Bogdan said let's go ahead. I can not figure out what I would have done if I was driving, but I would not have liked it.

However, the road was as good as it was in the end, that is, not craters or so, where you said that the landscape was very beautiful. It's just that at some point we've reached a crossroads:

... to which I have said that I did the left, only by instinct, but the memories were rather dim, so I would have been just as good to have done right. I do not know anymore. The point is you have no one to ask, unless you know how to communicate with the pointers, like the one in the picture:

After I chose the good one, I came to Curciu. If I had the impression at the time that I had already seen the most forgotten village village in Romania, they, I was wrong! Because we got to Curciu, who got very fast in the top.

But here, after many left and right, we finally arrived in Dârlos. There is not much to see here, and the fortified church is framed sideways by 2 houses. There was no one, but we went to the neighbor and said we wanted to see the church and a boy came and opened the gate and the church, and we could enter.

Pretty interesting church, but unfortunately behind it I could not go because it was coming to the other neighbor's yard, and she was not home and we could not get in ... like at home ... So we were happy only with the interior and the facade.

From here it was simple. We went to Medias and then the road to Axente Sever was DN14. The church takes our eyes just before the car stops, so we hurry up the steps next to the walls to get in quickly.

But surprise: the door is closed and no one answers. Two sheets are glued on the door, which reads as follows:
Program: Monday-free, Tuesday-Friday: 10-18, Saturday and Sunday: 12-16, Visiting fee: 4 lei / person
For room bookings outside the program, call 0733.490.626. (both in German and English).

So we thought to call the number on the sheet but guess what: the lady at the end of the thread says it does not come, it's closed during the winter, they do not have clients ...

Well, okay, we're clients and we're staying at your door.

Well, how many are you?

Well ... 4 people.

Ah ... well, we're not just coming for 4 people, sometimes some coaches come with a lot of customers and we're coming this way ...

And that's how I stayed with my swollen lip and the only part of this fortification I've seen is what you see in these pictures.

So we went further to Slimnic. I was mistaken for the side we were supposed to stop, so we missed a lot and had to go back. Because the road can not be continued by car, leave it somewhere along the road and continue on foot. The first time I was in the summer, I climbed a little while on the road, and then I started on a sort of trail. Now it was snow and we did not dash the path, so we had to go around a little, but not without reward, because I saw some of the walls I did not see first (the first picture in this article) and a place from which I caught beautiful panoramas.

The door of the city. Beat and you will be answered :)

Inner yard

Overlapped arcs

Walls over many years ...

My favorite crack

View from the bell tower

The clouds did not give us peace

Slimnic village

After I left, I stopped for a short walk in Sibiu (it seems I can not stay more than a few hours in this city).

We went to the Great Market, where there was a Santa Nicholas fair, or perhaps Christmas, I do not think it was going to be canceled in the meantime. There were a lot of stalls with very nice stuff, and what was good for the pope was delicious :)