Cop?a Mare Basilica

As happened with many more churches in the region, the Basilica of Copşa Mare was repeatedly modified. The defence was fortified to protect the town. Copşa Mare is a Transylvanian Saxon village. People speak German, as we noted when visiting the church on a Sunday morning, the songsheets and the readings of the day were all in German. The Saxons settled in the region from the twelfth century and are still fairly closed communities, Romanians living on their side, and they on theirs. Political and economic changes do not affect this región much. They are somewhat isolated from the rest of the country.