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The Gilau Castle

The Gilau Castle

The Gilau castle, Cluj county, was the residence of the princess Isabella Jagiello Zaploya of Transylvania, in the 16th century. The castle was built in the half of the 15th century, having a quadrlater shape. The edifice has one floor, about 30 rooms and an interior court. Behind the castle there are the ruins of a Roman camp. Around it there were found wooden axes, roman coins, a funerary roman medallion, a bronze statue and bronze statues from the 3rd century.

 
The Huniade Castle from Timisoara

The Huniade Castle from Timisoara

The Huniade Castle or the Huniazi Castle was built between 1443 and 1447 by Iancu of Hunedoara, on the ruins of the castle built by Carol Robert of Anjou, in the 14th century. The castle built by the Hungarian King was finished in 1316 and became regal residence. The old castle had towers in half-circular plan, serving as a noble residence for all the Hungarian kings until 1552.

 
The Iulia Hasdeu Castle from Campina

The Iulia Hasdeu Castle from Campina

Iulia Hasdeu Castle from Campina, Prahova county, was built between 1893 and 1896, in the memory of Iulia Hasdeu, the first Romanian to absolve the Soborna College from France. The castle was damaged during the First World War, following to be restaurated in 1924 by the Popular Athenee “B.P. Hasdeu”. As a result of the Second World War it aggravates, following to be restaurated by the Hystorical Monuments commission, between 1962 and 1964, being taken the decision to transform the castle into a museum. Starting with 9th of March 1965 the castle became the Memorial Museum “B.P. Hasdeu”.

 
The Kálnoky Castle from Micloşoara

The Kálnoky Castle from Micloşoara

The Kanlnoky castle from Miclosoara, Covasna county, was built in 1500, being first a haunting manner with an architecture that combines the barock, renascent style and neoclassic. The castle has many renascent elements, such as painted decorations on the wall. The archeological diggings showed up the foundation of the building, made by medieval stone.

 
The Kálnoky Castle from Crisului Valley

The Kálnoky Castle from Crisului Valley

The Kálnoky castle from Crisului Valley, Covasna county, is situated in the centre of the state, being built pn the place of a renascent domain, that was modified many times. The old look of the castle and of the annexed edifices is represented by the sculpted stone portico of the old chapel of the castle, that dates from 1685 and was monted in 1884 as a door of the family crypt from the cemetery of the actual romano-catolic church.

 
The Károlyi Castle from Carei

The Károlyi Castle from Carei

The Károlyi castle from Carei, Satu Mare county, was built by Károlyi László, first being only a rich house that arouse the stand of the Satmar committee nobles, needing the intervention of Matei Corvin to solve the conflict. In 1592, after many attacks from the Turkeys Károlyi Mihály decides to fortify the edifice built in 1482. Therefore the old building was surrounded by strong walls, with bastions, having an exterior ditch, with one suspended bridge, also being defended by a numerous and well armed garrison.

 
The Kemény-Bánffy Castle from Luncani

The Kemény-Bánffy Castle from Luncani

The Kemény-Bánffy Castle from Luncani, Cluj county, was built on the domain that was by then belonging to Gerendi family, as a document from 1268 shows. The next reference on this domain was made in 1270 by István, the son of the Hungarian King Béla the 4th, referring to Péter and Jakab Gerendi and also on “Villa Guerend”.

 
The Kemény Castle from Juncu de Sus

The Kemény Castle from Juncu de Sus

The Kemény Castle from Juncu de Jos, Cluj county, was built in the 19th century by the Kemény family. The castle has the shape of “L” letter, its sides having 22 and 16 meters, having a basement, a deck-floor and another floor with 2 entrances. The entrances are positioned on the Southern sides, the small entrance has two columns and a terrace. The access to the first floor is made by the stone stairs and on  the Northern-Western corner of the castle there is a pentagonal turret.

 
The Kemény Castle from Sancrai

The Kemény Castle from Sancrai

The Kemény castle from Sancrai, Alba county, was built in 1805 by the Kemény family. The edifice respects the metric and esthetic plans of Barrock, being a mixture between the French Barrock, characterized by a more classical morphology and the one from Northern Italy and Bohemia, characterized by moving shapes. The castle is a result of the both directions proving an eclectic character of the Transylvanian architecture: the main façade and the one from the side with the river. While the façade from the main road doesn’t drag attention, the one from Mures is a contrast, being more picturesque.

 
The Kendeffy Castle from Sântămăria-Orlea

The Kendeffy Castle from Sântămăria-Orlea

The Kendeffy Castle from Santmaria-Orlea, Tara Hategului, was built in 1782 by Candea family, who passed from the Catholic religion and changed their name in Kendeffy. The Kendeffy family was the richest noble family by that time, even richer than the royal family. Although they already had many castles in the Hateg area, they proposed the building of a new castle on Santmaria-Orlea, a bigger and more imposing one than the one that preceded it.

 

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