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Architectural Gems

Houses worth the trip for the building alone.

Restored manors, Hungarian kurias, Bauhaus mountain villas, conceptual new builds set inside a Saxon shell. Photographs hardly do them justice.

A restored Saxon barn turned into one long, slanted, oak-clad family house — minutes from the Biertan fortified church.

A 17th-century Hungarian manor restored by the Mihai Eminescu Trust.

A modernist mountain villa with a clear view of the Piatra Craiului ridge.

A four-hundred-year-old Saxon farmhouse on the high street of Viscri.

A small Transylvanian manor in the wine hills north of Cluj — restored room by room over eight years.