After the beautiful citadel of Sighisoara has been discovered in its mysteries, you can admire it from the hill of the Train station (Dealu Garii), where the Bella Vista hotel is placed. Here you will find comfort, silence, a uncommonly nice ambience in an exceptional natural environment.
Placed at around 2 km north-east from the town center, the hotel offers you accommodation in 10 large rooms, modern endowment, special space for relaxing, fitness and entertainment, as well as the possibility of taking refreshing walks trough the neighborhood, trough the woods stretched all over the hill, or on the south skirt of the woods, where you can admire the most beautiful panorama of the whole town Sighisoara.
You can reach us by any type of car that can be left in the supervised parking lot of the hotel, or, if you love hiking, you can walk trough the same picturesque route.
Life is beautiful in the middle of nature, not far away from the civilization, in a place that offers you the chance to enjoy the beauty of the environment as well as the comfort of modern decoration.
During the 12th century, German craftsmen and merchants known as the Transylvanian Saxons were invited to Transylvania by the King of Hungary to settle and defend the frontier of his realm. The chronicler Krauss lists a Saxon settlement in present-day Sighiṣoara by 1191.A document of 1280 records a town built on the site of a Roman fort as Castrum Sex or "six-sided camp", referring to the fort's shape of an irregular hexagon. Other names recorded include Schaäsburg (1282), Schespurg (1298) and Segusvar (1300).By 1337 Sighişoara had become a royal center for the kings, who awarded the settlement urban status in 1367 as the Civitas de Segusvar.
The city played an important strategic and commercial role at the edges of Central Europe for several centuries. Sighişoara became one of the most important cities of Transylvania, with artisans from throughout the Holy Roman Empire visiting the settlement. The German artisans and craftsmen dominated the urban economy, as well as building the fortifications protecting it. It is estimated that during the 16th and the 17th centuries Sighişoara had as many as 15 guilds and 20 handicraft branches. The Baroque sculptor Elias Nicolai lived in the city. The Wallachian prince Vlad Dracul (father of Vlad the Impaler (Dracula), who lived in exile in the town, let coins to be minted in the city (otherwise coinage was the monopoly of the Hungarian kings in the Kingdom of Hungary) and issued the first document listing the city's Romanian name, SighişoaraThe Romanian name is first attested in 1435, and derives from the Hungarian Segesvár, where vár is "fort".
The city was the setting for George I Rákóczi's election as Prince of Transylvania and King of Hungary in 1631. Sighişoara suffered military occupation, fires, and plagues during the 17th and 18th centuries. An important source for the history of 17th century Transylvania, for the period of 1606-1666, are the records of Georg Kraus, the town's notary .
The nearby plain of Albeşti was the site of the Battle of Segesvár, where the revolutionary Hungarian army led by Józef Bem was defeated by the Russian army led by Luders on 31 July 1849. A monument was constructed in 1852 to the Russian general Skariatin, who died in the battle.
