If you are looking for a mediaeval and Bohemian atmosphere, we are convinced you will enjoy this small village. The fortified church in Prejmer has the highest distinction of a building in Romania, more specifically three Michelin stars, and is a place of exceptional beauty.

Being built around 1218 by the Teutonic Knights, the fortress had 12 m high walls, 3-4 m thick, and contained 272 rooms used as supply rooms during peace time and as housing during war. The rooms were arranged on 4 floors, the number of the room being thought to be the same as the number of the house of its owner.

The most interesting fighting tool within the walls of the fortress was the "dead organ", a continuous fire device that caused massive damage to the enemy by automatically firing the weapons that joined it.

There is also a special celebration in this village which the locals are trying to preserve, called the Pancake Festival, the celebration focusing on the coming of spring and the days getting longer. On this occasion a group of masked people walk the streets on horses or by foot, symbolically recalling the arrival of the Saxons in Transylvania. In the middle of the group you can see a carriage with a stove in which pancakes are prepared.

After the restoration of the 1960s and 1970s and the introduction to the world cultural heritage in 1999, today the complex is managed by the Transylvanian Saxon Foundation in Munich.