The fortress of Sighisoara still keeps very old buildings , 500-600 years old . One of the most shapely preserved is the school street , who unexpurgated keeps the old type of the houses, most of them with the original texture and the basements, with the mediaeval stones and initial cogitation, clearance with gothic vaults or Renaissance style.
Most of this buildings were rebuild in Baroc style, in this way they were up for civilian rooms, with that type of architecture .
The hotel building (borned from 2 blocks), is now a single corp and is actually the ex Zeiglerische House . The buildings were consolidated before 1886, in the time the town-hall moved in this corps. Destroying the no. 4 house gangway, the two buildings were united with a modern staircase, and both corps were advanced with one more level.
The house no. 4 had a square design, with a gangway access in the left flank of the building, and the rooms from the ground-floor and first floor, are ordered on two axis. On the ground-floor in the yard side of rooms, can be found a gothic vault with mortar ribs and bricks, and also semicylindrical vaults, from XVI century. Initial the house had a 2 saddle roof. The print is still visible from the no. 2 house turbot. The both corps are part of civilian construction with yards, with secondary access.This type of houses is the luxurious houses of living from that century.The buildings keeps a Baroc style, with simple design on the levels . The ground-floor suffered major changes.
Today, you can find a luxury 3 stars hotel where you can enjoy the refinement from the mediaevalism...

... and you can discover more history by visiting the town.

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