Alba Iulia walking tour -- through the Alba Carolina Citadel, one of the largest and best preserved baroque fortifications in Eastern Europe, on a grey moody day that actually suits the weight of what you're walking through. Seven bastions, massive stone gates, and streets inside the walls that have been here since the Romans. The overcast light strips away the postcard gloss and shows you the place as it actually is.

The citadel's scale is the first surprise - most visitors don't expect something this large or this intact in a Romanian city of this size. The gates alone are extraordinary, each one a full baroque architectural statement with reliefs and towers. Inside the walls the old town functions as a living neighbourhood, not a museum - people going about their day inside a fortification that's been standing for 300 years.

Alba Iulia is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, with a population of around 63,000 people, one of Romania's most historically significant cities despite its modest size. The Alba Carolina Citadel, built between 1716 and 1735 under Habsburg rule, is the largest star fortress in Romania and one of the finest examples of Vauban-style military architecture in Eastern Europe. The city served as the site of Romania's unification proclamation in 1918 and remains a major symbol of Romanian national identity.

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