Things to see and do Mediaş

With a pleasant park at its center, the main square, piața Regele Ferdinand I, is surrounded by beautiful houses. Some are in the local Renaissance style, such as Casa Schuller (no. 25). Built in 1588, it hosted meetings of the Transylvanian Diet. Baroque Casa Schuster (no. 14) was the birthplace and childhood home of Saxon writer Gustav Schuster-Dutz. This square was once the site of major public events: executions, military parades, annual fairs... It still hosts important events today.

Accessible from the main square via a small covered passageway, the fortified Evangelical church of Sainte-Marguerite was built in the ^15th century. It is Gothic in style. Of its six original towers, only four remain. Known as the "Tour des Trompettes", its impressive sloping bell tower, almost 70 m high, was used to observe and warn of danger. Inside, you'll be impressed by the church's ^{14th-15th-century} murals, organ and oriental carpets on the walls, as well as the altar (1485), a magnificent example of Saxon medieval art.

It is housed in a Franciscan monastery, built in the 15th century in Gothic style and rebuilt in Baroque style three centuries later. The section dedicated to ethnography presents valuable Hungarian, Saxon and Romanian agricultural and viticultural tools, ceramics and folk costumes. In the history section you will see prehistoric tools and pottery, objects from the Dacian period and medieval documents. The natural sciences section includes an extensive butterfly collection and a herbarium.