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Castles and Palaces of Romania

Castle Bran
	Surrounded of one mystery will have and of legend, the castle of Bran owes its reputation A are charm single and with the myth creates by the Stoker writer around tell Dracula. The castles of Bran formed part of a whole of citadels on the border. In XVème century (1377) contemporary time of Louis 1er from Anjou king of Hungary. This one was built on a rock with 60m height, a fitting exceptional, of the secret parts and the narrow corridors, in make a true labyrinth.
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Palace Iasi
	The town of Iasi is located on seven hills, Iasi represents for much it arts centre of Romania. The first center of interest is it palate of the culture, it carries the print of the style neo gothic "flamboyant" it was built between 1906 and 1925 according to plans' of architect I.D.Berindei. The Palate was built on the ruins of the old princely court of Moldavia and the legend say that each one of its 365 parts corresponds to each days of the year.
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Palace Cotroceni
	In 1888 the crown prince Ferdinand decides to make build his residence has the place of the old monastery bucarestois Cotroceni. This princely residence was transformed into 1893; the Cotroceni palate had been born. This building combines the French electric style and neo-Rumanian. The site was selected for the young Ferdinand couple of Hohenzollern-Marie of Saxony-Cobourg Gotha, niece of the Victoria queen, was justified by the fact that during more nearly 200 years Cotroceni
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Palace Mogosoaia
	The first documentary certificate of Mogosoaia (located at 15 km of Bucharest) date of April 24 1598. Since 1881, the prince Constantin Brancoveanu buys several grounds and of the houses of noble and starts to make build for his/her son Stéphan, one castle which is inspired by its Palate of Potlogi (built in 1698).
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Castle Peles
	The castle of Peles of Sinaia, was most elegant of the second homes of the former royal family of Romania. Seen outside, it gives the impression to be a castle of hunting, by its frontage with half-timberings and with the corbellings, under the sloping, typical roof of the néo German rebirth.
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Castle Pelisor

The complex muséal of Sinaia includes two castles: Peles, that the Marie queen called “the large palate”, and small Pelisor “Peles”. Built between 1899 and 1902, according to plans' of the Czech architect Karel Liman and decorates by the architect Viennese Bernhard Ludwig, the “Pelisor” was the residence of summer of king Ferdinand de Hohenzollern.

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Palace Brukental

The Brukenthal palate is one of the buildings of style the most important baroque of Romania. Built in Sibiu in several successive stages, between 1778 and 1788, it was the permanent residence of the baron Samuel von Brukenthal, governor of the principality of Transylvania. Collector of impassioned art, this one transformed are living its residence in true museum.

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Castle Corvinesti

Set up at the XIV century, at the top of a rock which dominates the small river Zlasti, the castle was mentioned for the first time in a document written in 1409, under the reign of Sigismund de Luxemburg. From the architectural point of view, it presents three styles: Gothic, rebirth and baroque.

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