Vurpar Fortified Church

The short towerless Romanesque basilica with choir square, semicircular apse and apsidioles was built in the first half of the 13th century. Three pairs of square pillars, connected by means of round arches, separate the nave from the cross-vaulted aisles. The choir got a polygonal apse in the 16th century. From the Romanesque construction phase date the south and the north portals and the Romanesque windows of the clerestory. The powerful family of the Vurpăr noblemen appears in Transylvanian documents time and again, beginning with the end of the 13th century and until the 16th century. In 1578 a descendant of the family tried to recover the former family property.