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Mathilde and Johann Fernolend
Mathilde and Johann Fernolend

"Even now, whenever someone calls for the owner, I instinctively turn around, looking for Mathilde and Johann Fernolend (in the photo), the previous owners. I've found that others who have bought Saxon properties feel the same way. We are not truly owners — we are just taking care of these houses for the next generation."

— Bogdan Jung, Viscri 9

Rural Transylvania is not just a place — it is a sequence of times that overlap at the edges. And a series of artefacts that have outlived those who made them, people you can now only sense faintly. You cannot separate what remains from what was; the Saxons, the church, the craft, the neighbourly bonds.

In our era, visitors are shaping the present of the village without realising it. In a way, we feel that our guests are also part of the intangible heritage. And because preserving is just as important as how you build forward, we have started a programme through which those who feel an affinity with Viscri can buy a square metre of orchard here — to help us grow a new kind of community, a group of people who support the village and are neither locals nor simply visitors. Join the Viscri Group →