LANDSLIDE INVENTORY MAPPING IN THE AREA OF THE SIGHISOARA MUNICIPALITY.

The Sighişoara Municipality has a very big importance to the cultural, architectural and historical heritage of the Romanian people. It is the second largest municipality in the Mureş County since the 16th February 1968. The municipality has a very big importance in the area of Transylvania because of the tourism activity. As it is well known on the top of the Fortress Hill lies the Sighişoara fortress, the only inhabited medieval fortress in Romania. Because of it's big importance, now it is in the heritage of Unesco. But, despite the historical heritage of the area of, there is another thing that has an importance, but from a negative point of view. The slope instability problems in the area of Sighişoara affect almost all the slopes. The biggest problem is that it has affected also the integrity of the medieval citadel. Through the years some landslides have affected the citadel's walls. Some parts of the citadel walls were damaged and some are still being damaged. The slope instability also affects some areas of the town inhabited by people. Since the year 2000, because of geological, geomorphological, meteorological and anthropical factors, in the area of Sighişoara, some landslide activity has been spotted. It was clear that this was not a remote phenomenon. So, until the present time some landslides have been remoulding the landscape in the area. The present situation regarding the landslide activity in the area pointed that it was necessary that a landslide inventory map was to be made. From this map there can be made some observations regarding the area most prone to landslides in the area of the Sighişoara municipality. So aim of this paper is to present a landslide inventory and a landslide inventory map in the study area. From this map it can be concluded that in the areas prone to landslides there will always be raised the questions "When" and "How" the landslides will occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]