Community: Rupea
Rupea City is located in the county of Brasov, in Transylvania Subcarpaţii of contact and Hârtibaciului Plateau at an altitude of 451 m, 62 km north-west of the city of Brasov. Said City in 1951 Rupea city currently has about 6000 inhabitants and the local administrative subordination (files). Settlement wore name derived Cohalm until 1929 when changes in Rupea name. During its existence the city has imposed an important meşteşugăresc - working here at least 12 guilds as well as deal with four major annual trade fairs in the area famous. City Rupea is an important tourist center in Transylvania, which kept untainted history, culture and traditions of specific areas of this country. In the town and surrounding Rupea a lot of things they expect visitors. In the north-west of the city Rupea, halfway between Sighisoara and Brasov, the tip of a massive basalt cliffs stands the ruins of a medieval fortress that guarded distance. Dacian fortress its origins, which bear the name "Ramidava" Rupea castle was built near
Currently Rupea attracts tourists by Saxon cultural heritage, but the fortress Cohalm and bazaltele from Racos located nearby.
History
First traces of habitation date back to the Paleolithic and early Neolithic (5500-3500 BC) periods well emphasized by numerous prehistoric traces (stone tools, ceramic fragments, funerary urns, etc..). On the hearth Ramidava ancient Dacian settlement, called by the Romans Rupes (name of the current derivăcel), has developed locality prefeudal (th
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Local resources
Local resources are used in the following specific activities: trade, agriculture, animal husbandry, processing and wood, small craft workshops.
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Traditions
Festival Forts, port Balul popular Hope dowry, the Christmas Ball of teens are just some of the traditions and holidays that occur every year in the town Rupea.
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