http://travel.roughguides.com/roughguides.html

Quote from Rough Guides:  "Travel in Romania is an rewarding as it is challenging. The country's mountain scenery and great diversity of wildlife, its cultures and people, and a way of life that at times seems out of the last century, leave few who visit unaffected."

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/romania

Quote from Lonely Planet: "Romania has the majestic castles, medieval towns, great hiking and wildlife, and cheap skiing of much of the 'undiscovered' former Eastern Bloc."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania

The Wikipedia (free web-based encyclopedia) description of Transylvania with a lot of interesting links

http://www.turism.ro/english/index.php

Good tourist site about Romania

http://www.aboutromania.com/

Good site about Romania in general.

http://www.brasov.ro/indexeng.php3

Home page of Brasov in English

http://medieval.romanianfolkart.ro/

Nice page about the Saxon fortified villages

http://www.biertan.ro/

Home page of Biertan, one of the Saxon villages included on the World Heritage List