By The 31st edition of the Medieval Sighisoara Festival will take place over July 24 – 26, with the program to be finalized soon, Sighisoara mayor Ioan Iulian Sirbu announced on Monday.
„We look forward to you being part of the citadel’s story,” the mayor wrote in a Facebook post.
Over its 34 years of existence, the festival has had two interruptions: one in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and one in 2016 amid political disputes within the local administration.
Although the founders dreamed of turning it into an event comparable to the Edinburgh Festival, after the 2016 interruption the Medieval Sighisoara Festival – which had already gained international recognition, and was preparing a Guinness World Records bid for several activities, and regularly attracted more than 30,000 tourists – entered a visible decline over the past decade and has not managed to regain its former prominence.
In 1992, a group of young students from the National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) in…
