the main material used in construction, but bricks have replaced it in the last hundred years; today, only a small number of wooden houses can be found. Places to see The oldest church in the area can be found at Săliște; it is a painted church dating to 1674. Other old churches are the wooden church from Poiana Sibiului - 1771 - and the church from Tălmăcel - 1776. In Rășinari and Săliște there are some small village museums and also memorial houses. Emil Cioran is the best-known personality to have been born in this area. Additionally, Octavian Goga, a Romanian poet and a politician from the interwar period, along with more than six Romanian academicians, are natives of this area. There is a museum in Sibiel dedicated to glass-painted icons. Close to Tilișca there can be found the remains of a Dacian citadel, situated on a hilltop with a panoramic view towards the Transylvanian Plateau. A more modern museum can be found in Sadu, the place where the first electrical hydro-power plant was built in 1896 - the third one in Europe. References External links http://www.ruraltourism.ro/marg/html/margen.html https://archive.today/20010313042733/http://www.sibiu.hermannstadt.ro/marginime/en/marginime1.htm Cornel Mișinger, Monografia Satului Fântânele (Cacova) din Mărginimea Sibiului, Casa de Presă și Editură Tribuna, Sibiu, 2006, . Victor Voicu-Vedea, Ioan Părean, Mărginimea Sibiului. Ghid de turism rural, Editura Salgo, Sibiu, 2008, . Historical regions of Transylvania Geography of Sibiu County Mocani