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The Castle of 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.

His wife the Marie queen, known in Europe by her arts person qualities and artistic exceptional, conceived with refinement the decoration of the castle, by choosing the art nouveau, and of the Byzantine and Celtic elements.

Thus occurred the “gold room”, the “vault” and the “gold living room”.

Its collection of decorative objects joins together most prestigious signature of the time: Emile Gallé, the Daum brothers, Joseh Hoffmann, Louis Comfort, Tiffany and Gustav Gushner.

The hall of honor, simple and luminous, draws the attention by its ceiling decorated with boxes in oak.

The majority of the fabrics, the drawings and the watercolours represent the Marie queen with her children.

The office of the very imposing King, points out the style néo German rebirth of the Peles castle.

The pieces of furniture of the gold room were manufactured in 1919, in the workshops of arts and trades of Sinaia, according to drawings' of the queen.

Its office, a part with columns of style " brancovan ", récrée the environment of the Rumanian traditional interiors, by the presence of an earthenware chimney.

The seats and the inkstand are decorated with lily and Celtic crosses, principal symbols of the Queen.

It is in this part that the Queen wished to finish her days. The dyeings of the walls, decorated with sheets of thistles, decorative elements of the blazon of Scotland, evoked its native soil to him.

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