SIGHISOARA, Romania, May 27 (UPI) -- Prince Charles has joined the fight to halt a planned motorway that would destroy 200 Saxon villages throughout Transylvania, it was reported Thursday.
Construction is set to begin this summer on a four-lane highway, built by the U.S. firm Bechtel, that will desecrate ancient pastoral land as it links Romania and Hungary, Britain's Telegraph said.
The highway is scheduled to be built in a corridor of land south of the Transylvanian town of Sighisoara, known for its links to Dracula, which is 200 miles north of Bucharest.
The prince, who funds a charity that restores crumbling Saxon villages, met with Romanian President Ion Iliescu two weeks ago to express his concern that the thoroughfare would do irreparable damage.
"The prince gave his own point of view but I explained to him that this highway does not go against any (European Union)interests and that it meets the needs of both Romania and Hungary", Iliescu said.
"The argument that such a project would be harmful to nature is straight out of the 19th century," he said.
