Town Square - Piața Gábor Áron, Târgu Secuiesc, Romania

Gábor Áron Square (Piața Gábor Áron) is the heart of Târgu Secuiesc, a small market town in Covasna County, Transylvania, and this camera looks across the wide old marketplace and the colorful buildings around it.

Most people here are Székely Hungarians, and the town is better known in Hungarian as Kézdivásárhely, meaning "Kézdi market." It was first mentioned in 1407, as a market town called Torja Market, and it has been a trading center for the area ever since.

The square is named after Áron Gábor, born in 1814, who made cannons and gunpowder for the Hungarian forces in Transylvania during the revolution of 1848. He was killed in battle in July 1849.

Did You Know? About 85 percent of the town's 16,000 people are Székely Hungarians, a group with its own long history in eastern Transylvania.

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