Romania's famous castles - Peleș Castle

  

It's no longer a secret that I like to write about tourism, about the places I visit, even if I write too much data about certain buildings and historical places.

After writing about the castles, Sturdza, Corvin and Bran, I couldn't help but write about Peleș Castle, which is one of the most important tourist attractions in Romania. A visit to Peleș Castle can only be one full of information. The castle seen both from the outside and from the inside is impressive. It is built in the style of the German neo-renaissance and if you didn't know it is located right in the middle of the Romania. 

Peleșis considered the most impressive and elegant construction in Romania, one of the most visited tourist attractions from the country, the most important historical building in Romania. At the ticket office it is specified that the access to the castle takes place at specific time intervals established, in groups of maximum 15 people and accompanied by a guide.

  

The castle was built in 1873 to be used as a summer residence for the royal family, but this use lasted only until the end of 1947, when King Mihai was forced to abdicate and the castle was confiscated by the Communists. The building is currently owned by the Royal Family of Romania and houses the Peleș National Museum. The statue of King Carol I sits in the inner courtyard, parallel to the main entrance, and on the east side, on the right side facing the castle, is the statue of Queen Elizabeth. Even after its inauguration in 1883, Peleș underwent changes, always expanding. The current form was reached only in 1914 (the year of the death of King Carol I).

The downside, so to speak, is that you can't visit even half of the castle's 160 rooms. There are several steps at the entrance, covered with a red carpet to the entrance hall, it seemed exceptional to me, as if entering the castle you had a meeting with the royal family.

The first visit was the Hall of Arms in which the weapons of Carol I are exhibited. Then followed the reception hall, the Florentine Salon. The visit continued with the Office of King Carol I, a cabinet also used for audiences. I went upstairs and the first visit was the Concert Hall where George Enescu was invited by the queen to sing at the balls, then the royal apartments. Here, for a few seconds, I felt like a queen.

  Another important thing: The castle had a vast collection of paintings, some of which are currently in the National Museum of Art of Romania.

In the yard is a park is very beautiful, there you have many places where you can take beautiful photos of the castle. Around it, the Castle has seven terraces decorated with stone statues, fountains and ornamental Carrara marble vessels.

After visiting Peleș Castle, we walked through the yard, saw the outside of Pelișor and headed to Sinaia Resort, at least to visit it.

 

 Peleș Castle is one of the most important historical buildings in Romania, having a unique character and is, through its historical and artistic value, one of the most important monuments of this kind in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. -lea.
 

 Carol I, elected prince of Romania in 1866, visits Sinaia for the first time in August of that year, remaining delighted by the beauty of those places. At that time, Sinaia was a small mountain village, called Neagului Bridge. The ruler decides to build a castle in a secluded and picturesque place: Piatra Arsă. A few years later, in 1872, he bought the land (1000 acres), and work began in 1873, under the direction of architects Johannes Schultz, Carol Benesch and Karel Liman. First, workers made efforts to master the whimsical elements of nature, such as underground watercourses or landslides.

 

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