Alexandria

Alexandria is a municipality, the seat of the county of Teleorman, Muntenia, Romnia. The city lies in the south of the Romanian Plain, on the eastern bank of the Vedea River in the area where the Boian Plain meets the Gavanu-Burdea Plain. It covers 9,56 km and it is 88 km away from Bucharest.

Alexandria

According to the 2005 census, Alexandria has a population of 50.496 people, 22.589. of which are active (2.192 men and 10.397 women).

Although the city itself is relatively young, archaeological digs in the area have revealed traces of life dating back to the Paleolithic, the Neolithic, the Metal Age and the Middle Ages. The city, founded in1834, according to the urbanistic plans drawn by Austrian engineer Otto von Moritz ( who had already drawn the plans of Brila i Giurgiu would later draw the plans of Turnu Severin), the city was named after the ruler of Wallachia at the time, Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica (1834 - 1842) whose remains are buried in a monumental sarcophagus in St. Alexander Bishopric Cathedral.

Sibiu
Sibiu, (named Hermannstadt in German), is the seat and the largest municipality in Sibiu county. Sibiu, with a population of approximately 155.000, is an important cultural and economic centre situated in the Cibin River basin, in the south of Transylvannia,.

Sibiu

The city , one of the main Saxon settlements, has always been and still is one of the most important and the most prosperous in Transylvannia. In recent years it has undergone a remarkable economic and cultural renaissance and is today one of the cities with a large amount of foreign investments. In 2007, Sibiu was declared European Cultural Capital.

In Roman times, the Sibiu area was known under the name of Cibiniensis / Cibinium, which is the origin of the river which flows through the city and of the Romanian name of the city itself. Sibiu was founded in the 12th century, on the site of an older settlement, probably Slavic, by Saxon colonists who came from the Rin-Mosela region. The city was first mentioned in 1191 under the name of Cibinum in an ecclesiastical document from the Vatican. The first mention of the city under the name of Hermanstadt dates back to 1223, but there are also mentions of the name of Villa Hermanni.
In the 14th century, Sibiu became a great commercial centre and for centuries it was the most important German fortress in Transylvannia. The craftsmen of the city were organised in guilds. In 1376 there were as many as 19 guilds.

-St. Alexander orthodox cathedral, built between 1869-1898, in RomanicByzantine style, with interior mural paintings by Stefan Luchian and Constantin Artachino -The monument dedicated to the heroes who died in the First World War -The County History Museum -The City Hall -The AlexandriaPrefecture - The monument dedicated to the heroes who died in the Second World War -The busts of Alexandru Ghica i Alexandru Ioan Cuza, created in 1914 by sculptor I. Iordnescu
-The monument dedicated to the peasants killed during the 1907 Peasant Uprising

Muzeums
Sibi has numerous museums The Brukenthal Museum The History Museum The Pharmacy Museum The Natural History Museum The Museum of Arms and Hunting Trophies

Churches The Orthodox Cathedral (1906) The Evangelic (Luteran) Church (the 14th century) The Ursuline Church (the 15th century) The Roman Catholic Church in Great Square (1726-1733) The Franciscan Church in Selarilor Street

Alexandria City Hall

Sibiu City Hall

The monument dedicated to the heroes who died in the First World War

The Brukenthal Museum

St. Alexander cathedral

The Orthodox Cathedral

The County History Museum

THE COUNCIL TOWER