The Bran Castle
Bran castle is situated close to Brasov, on the road between it and Campungulung, having been built on a cliff, in a strategical point. The castle was first a “passing” citadel, having a quadrate irregular shape, that was afterwards completed after Gabriel Bethlen’s plans, in 1622, with the tower from the South, the Southern tower and the rectangular tower on East. Between 1883 and 1886 the roof was covered by tiles, following to be transformed into castle in 1920 when it was property of Queen Mary.
The Bran Castle was used as a strategic point in 1395, when Sigismund of Luxembourg, king of Hungary and German Emperor made an incursion in Tara Romaneasca to defend Vlad Uzurpadorul and to ensure the power to Mircea cel Batran, who was his vassal. Sigismund confers to Mircea, in 1407, the leadership of the castles Bran and Bologa , Bran being under the authority of Tara Romaneasca until 1419. In 1427 Bran castle became from the property of Brasov the property of Hungary, that financed fortification and extending workings. In 1920 the castle was donated by the Brasov Town Council to Queen Mary of Romania, as a gratitude to her contribution on the Great Union from the 1st December 1918.
The castle hosted for a while the Bran Museum, here being exhibited ceramic collections, furniture, weapons and armors. In the court of the castle there are traditional houses from the region Rucar-Bran.
The Culture Minister disposed the moving of the collections to Vama Medievala, because the castle was retrocede to the successors (the archduke Dominic of Habsburg and his sisters, Maria Magdalena Holzhausen and Elisabeth Sandhofer).
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