Şchei

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Şchei or Şcheii Braşovului is the old ethnically Romanian neighborhood of Braşov. This village-like section of the town is mostly made up of small houses built along narrow roads with gardens and small fields on the sides of the mountains. Until the 17th century, Romanians were forbidden from owning property inside the city walls. Like all Romanians, the people living in the Şchei could only enter the town at certain times and had to pay a toll at the gate for the privilege of selling their produce inside the town. It is in Şchei that Braşov's first Romanian School was established, next to the Romanian Orthodox church of St. Nicholas.