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The Castle of Peles

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The Castles of Pesles

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.

The seven external terraces are decorated with fountains, basins, columns and statues of Romanelli.

King Carol 1st, is represented the glance fixed at far, and his wife, the Queen Elizabeth, sitting embroidering.

The 160 parts impress by the richness and the diversity of style: German baroque, rococo, Italian rebirth, hispano-Moorish.

The installation of the first stone in 1875 by prince Carol de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen of this residence financed on its own capital stocks was going to be followed, eight years later, by the inauguration of the most modern castle of Europe, equipped with a clever system of central heating.

The castle was built according to plans' of the architects Wilhelm von Doreder and Johannes Schultz, it was restored and increased between 1893 and 1914, by the architects Karel Liman and André Leconte of Nouy.

In the hall and the main staircase one notices the six tapestries of Aubusson, the low-reliefs and the statuettes out of alabasters.

The walls are covered with skirting in drowning and other noble gasolines. The glass one of the ceiling, decorated with stained glasses is mobile it can be ordered electrically or manually.

The rooms of weapons presents a single collection of approximately 400 European and Eastern parts (XVème - XIV centuries): German panoplies, medieval armours for the knights and their horses, bludgeons, knives with the crimped handles of sapphire and ivory, African shield.

The room of the councils, the office of Carol 1st, the library (mainly in German, Latin, French and Italian, and the secret staircase which leads to the private apartments, are entirely decorated with woodworks.

The frescos of the old living room of music illustrate the German tales that the Queen Elizabeth, had rewritten in worms, under the pseudonym of Carmen Sylva.

The stained glasses illustrate illustrates the Rumanian popular legends versified by the traditional poet Vasile Alecsandri.

Furniture to carve out of teak wood was offered to the king by the Maharajah de Kapurtala.

The room florentine of reception has turned bronze doors, the marble chimney is decorated with bronze reduction according to the statues of Michel-Angel which decorate the vault with Médicis.

In the center of the ceiling, carved in a lime gilded with the sheet, a copy of a fresco of Giorgio Vasiri is reflected in the Venetian ice, placed between the two thrones.

The walls and the ceiling of the Turkish living room are covered with silk embroidered with the hand. The Moorish room, all in gilded stucco, evokes Alhambra de Grenade.

The room of theatre, which accomodated in 1906 the first cinematographic projection of the country, in addition to the cabin royal this room could accomodate 60 places.

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