The EarthwaySomartin, Transylvania
The EarthwaySomartin, Transylvania
The place, and the country around it
This is what a visitor would be coming to — the village, the Saxon city down the valley, the fortified churches, and the open-air museum where the region keeps how it used to build.
Șomartin in Color95 photographsThe village itself — the stone, the light, the seasons turning over a Saxon settlement of 250 people in the Transylvanian hills.
Historical Sibiu79 photographsSibiu — the Saxon city an hour down the valley, and the nearest place a visitor would land.
Churches of Transylvania31 photographsThe fortified churches of the Saxon villages: built to be prayed in and defended from, and still standing over settlements far smaller than the congregations they were raised for.
Astra National Museum23 photographsThe open-air museum outside Sibiu — watermills, homesteads, workshops and churches moved here beam by beam.