Corso

The Corso is the main shopping street of Sibiu. You go out of the west side of the city to get to the main square, Piata Mare. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, every good family had to have its main house on the Corso. Evenings and weekends are to walk, to see and be seen, in peoples best clothes and makeup. Now the streets are still lively and the old houses have been renovated and painted in cheerful colors, and the lower floors are for the most prestigious stores in the city. You will find few places to eat on the Corsican, although the are shops to buy pieces of pizza and beverages.