Transylvania's last Saxons revive its stunning ghost villages

Transylvania's last Saxons revive its stunning ghost villages
Horse-drawn carts are still a regular sight in Cincșor.
Agence France-Presse
By Blaise Gauquelin,with photography by Mihai Barbu for AFP Carmen Schuster was a young woman when she left the Transylvanian village of Cincșor in Romania for West Germany in search of a better life 40 years ago.After returning to Romania for work many years later, she was overcome by the urge to stay, attempting to save the centuries-old Saxon community she once called home.Schuster is a member of the dwindling ethnic German minority, descendants of Saxons and others who were recruited by the Hungarian kings to settle in Transylvania fro...

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