Schei Neighbourhood

Brașov started out as a Saxon settlement on the merchant road from East to West. During the first centuries of city life Romanians were not allowed to own property within the city walls and their acces were allowed only through one of the gates. So they slowly started building and settling around that gate, the result of those decades of expansion being the Old Schei Neighbourhood, stretching high into the mountain, a cluster of cobble stone streets and chaotic urban development.