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ASTRA National Museum Complex

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Windmill from Constanta County at Museum of Folk Civilisation in Astra, Sibiu, Romania, Europe

Five kilometres from central Sibiu, this is Europe's largest open-air ethnographic museum, where churches, mills and traditional homes number among 400 folk-architecture monuments on-site. In summer, ASTRA hosts numerous fairs, dance workshops and musical performances, so it's worthwhile checking the website for events. There’s also a nice gift shop and restaurant with creek-side bench seats.

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