Biertan is a picturesque village where horse-drawn carts are still present in everyday life and where locals sell their goods in the village's cobbled market. What's more, the entire village can be admired through the 11 m high walls of this 13th century fortress.

As in many Saxon villages, the houses are arranged around a central market and are architecturally dominated by the imposing church-fortress. Over a period of about 300 years (1572 - 1867), Biertan was the centre of the Saxon bishopric, the town becoming a very important spiritual and religious focuspoint, surpassing the larger town of Medias in this regard.

Located on a hill, the mediaeval architectural complex consists of a large church in the centre, and three halls of equal height. It was built in the late Gothic style, has 3 entrances and the impressive altar is the largest in the country, with 28 painted panels worked on by the craftsmen from Vienna and Nuremberg.

Inside the church, there used to be a small building in which there were also a few cells. In these cells, couples whose marriages were at a standstill were locked up for 6 weeks with the aim of avoiding a divorce, and eventually trying to solve their problems during the time in which they were incarcerated. The story of this isolation had the role of ​​making the two spouses share everything, so these cells with a small ceiling and thick walls, had only one chair, one table, one trunk and one small bed with one pillow and a blanket.