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St. Michael Church

Posted in Amazing places with tags , , on 19 June 2010 by treefermentphotos

Plaques with the names of Austro-Hungarian and German officers and soldiers who fell in autumn 1916 in fighting around Sibiu. These plaques are inside the fortified church of St. Michael, a basilica with three naves, surrounded by fortifications. It is one of the oldest and most representative of the Romanesque style in Transilvania. It was built of stone between 1162 and 1223, is formed the central nave, two lateral, choir, central apse and two sides apses. In the second half of XIII century, the church was added a Romanesque portal framed by arcades.

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