Brașov City - Transylvania, Romania

From a rooftop at the Ceasu Rău crossroads in Brașov, this camera turns slowly across the city, from busy streets and red-tiled roofs to the old town and the forested slopes of Tâmpa mountain rising above it.

Brașov grew from a town the Teutonic Knights built here around 1211, and its German name, Kronstadt, means "Crown City". The old town's Black Church, finished in 1477, got its name from the smoke that blackened its walls in a great fire in 1689.

Tâmpa rises to about 3,150 feet (960 m), some 1,300 feet (400 m) above the city, and a cable car built in 1971 runs up its slopes. Since 2004 the mountain has carried the city's name in big white letters, Hollywood-style.

Did You Know? From 1950 to 1960 the city was officially called Orașul Stalin, or Stalin City.

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