The Lázár Castle from Lazarea
Lazarea Castle from Harghita county was built by Lazar family, serving to them as a residence. The oldest lived tower dates from 1450. The castle was decorated with 4 corner-towers, 3 of them having a regular quadrate shape, and the North-Western one has 7 corners. The walls of the bastions are ornate in the Renascent style, being observed the traces of the mural paintings. The inscription “Cristus Maria 1532”, written with gothic letters, shows that by those time there were made reconstructions on the castle.
In the court of the castle there are many edifices: the Kitchen, the living place of the personnel, the oven, the fountain, the ironing atelier and the bulkheads.
The castle suffered serious damages during the Curuts wars, in 1707, when the Austrians devastated the castle.
The renovations started in 1967.
The main building hostes an arts gallery and the Cavaliers Hall was arranged, having furniture that was sculpted with the local popular motives, Transylvanian symbols, lamps and other elements made of cast iron, all of them having been created by the local handymen
The castle is an important creational centre for the plastic artists from our country and has works that were donated by the participant artists on the creation camps. In the halls from the Bastion of the Gate and in the Cavaliers Hall there is the Art Gallery “Prietenia”, where there are premanently exposed 150 paintings, from which we remember their artists: Aurel Ciupe (Aleea), Băndărău Nicolae (the sculpture “Luptătorul”), Grigore Patrichi (“Figura”), Gaál András (“Cariera”), Liviu Suhar (“Carnavalul”), Barabás István (“Pe camp”), Balla József (“Pictorul”), Dumitrescu Mircea (“Coridorul”), Bálint Károly (“Tinereţea” – marble sculpture). In the hall having aproximatively 300 square meters, situated above the Cavaliers Hall, there are Graphic Exponates.
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