{"id":123167,"date":"2016-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/biertan-village-9th-in-cosmopolitans-top-22-unreal-destinations-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:48:00","slug":"biertan-village-9th-in-cosmopolitans-top-22-unreal-destinations-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/biertan-village-9th-in-cosmopolitans-top-22-unreal-destinations-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Biertan Village: 9th in Cosmopolitan&#8217;s Top 22 &#8220;Unreal Destinations&#8221; Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The medieval village of Biertan in Romania ranks 9th in the top 22 &#8220;unreal destinations&#8221; in the world, compiled by Cosmopolitan magazine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Journalists from Cosmopolitan wrote that &#8220;Biertan truly looks like a town from a Disney movie, and if you want to see even more fairytale scenes, go discover the local fortified church.&#8221; Biertan ranks ahead of places like Santorini, Phi Phi Islands (Thailand), Dubai, and Bora Bora.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Biertan, one of the oldest Saxon settlements in Romania, has become known to tourists thanks to the fortified citadel which houses the well-known fortified church.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Furthermore, a legend is linked to this place: spouses who argued and wanted to divorce were locked in the citadel with a single spoon, a fork, a table, a bed, and a chair, thus being forced to tolerate each other. The result? For 300 years, there was reportedly only one divorce in the village of Biertan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Where is Biertan located?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biertan is a medieval Saxon village located in Transylvania, Romania, famous for its UNESCO World Heritage fortified church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why was Biertan included in the Cosmopolitan list?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The magazine highlighted its fairytale appearance, comparing it to a Disney movie setting due to its well-preserved medieval architecture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the legend of the &#8220;marital prison&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It refers to a room where couples seeking divorce were locked together with shared items to reconcile; it reportedly resulted in only one divorce over 300 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The medieval village of Biertan in Romania ranks 9th in the top 22 &#8220;unreal destinations&#8221; in the world, compiled by Cosmopolitan magazine. Journalists from Cosmopolitan wrote that &#8220;Biertan truly looks like a town from a Disney movie, and if you want to see even more fairytale scenes, go discover the local fortified church.&#8221; Biertan ranks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123167"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}