TOPIC: Beauty of Romania

So i am going to show some of the best castles and other buildings imo from my country,Romania.

^{The Peles Castle,Sinaia}



Located in Sinaia at 44 km from Brasov, in Transylvania, Peles Castle is one of the most beautiful castles in all Europe.

The magnificent Peles Castles, with its fairytale like turrets and pointed towers, rises above acres of green meadows sprinkled with haystacks.

The castle was built between 1873 and 1914, as a summer residence and retreat, by Romania's longest serving monarch, King Carol I, who died and was buried here just months after the castle’s completion. The costs raised to approximately $US 120 million at today's currency rate.

The representative style used is German Renaissance, but one can easily discover elements belonging to the Italian Renaissance, Gothic, German Baroque and French Rococo style.



The castle was built in wood, stone, bricks and marble and comprises more than 160 rooms, most of which are open to the public.
When the communists took the power Ceausescu did not like the castle very much and visited rarely. This seems to be due to some wicked specialists who, counting on the Ceausescu couple's paranoid health phobias, declared the building to be infested with a dangerous fungus, which in 1980s was true to a certain extent but was only affecting the timber.

Peles Castle is surrounded by seven terraces decorated with statues, stone-made-wells, ornamental vases and Carara marble. The architects used an abundance of wooden decoration, both for the exterior and for the interior of the castle, which confers a very special quality to the building.

Here are some examples






The interiors are massively covered in sculpted wood.
Every single inch of the castle is beautifully and richly decorated and the furniture, the stained glass windows depicting German fairy tales, the massive doors, the carpets and the paintings create an out of this world atmosphere.






^{Bran Castle or Dracula's Castle, Transylvania}

Sorry,but i don't remember much info from this castle,however,here are some images.

Bran Castle looms over Transylvania with its ghostly silhouette and blood-red towers and turrets. Built on solid rock, the 13th century castle is supposed to have been the residence of Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula.
Nevertheless, according to the local legends, Count Vlad Tepes, also known as "Vlad the Impaler", was only imprisoned here for two weeks.





^{Corvinesti Castle, Hunedoara}

Same as the Bran castle,i don't really remember any info,since i visited the Bran and Corvinesti Castles when i was 8 and 9.

Corvinesti Castle also known as Hunyad Castle is located in Transylvania, in the city of Hunedoara. Built on the place of a former Roman camp, Corvinesti Castle is one of the most accomplished Gothic castles in Europe.
The castle is a large and imposing building with tall towers and myriad windows and balconies adorned with stone carvings, dominating the landscape from the top of a rock above the River Zlasti.
The access to the castle is ensured by a wooden bridge supported by stone pillars across the river, which takes you to the gate tower.

Here are some images.





^{Palace of the Parliament,Bucharest}

The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. Located on Dealul Arsenalului in central Bucharest (Sector 5/Sectorul 5), it is the second largest administrative building in the world, after The Pentagon in the United States, with 84 m high, an area of 365,000 m2 and is composed of 23 sections. Having a volume of 2,550,000 m3, it is also the third biggest building in the world, after the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, Mexico. In terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world.

A colossal parliament building known for its ornate interior, it houses the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, three museums and an international conference center. The National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Communist Totalitarianism (established in 2015) and the Museum of the Palace are hosted inside the Palace. Though named the House of the Republic (Romanian: Casa Republicii), after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 it became widely known as the People's House (Romanian: Casa Poporului). Due to its impressive endowments, conferences, symposiums and other events are organised by state institutions and international bodies, but even so about 70% of the building is empty.

In 1990, Australian business magnate Rupert Murdoch wanted to buy the building with $1 billion, but his bid was rejected Nowadays, the Palace of the Parliament is valued at €3 billion, making it the most expensive administrative building in the world. The cost of heating and electric lighting alone exceeds $6 million per year, as much as a medium-sized city.



The Romanian Athenaeum

The Romanian Athenaeum (Ateneul Român) is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's main concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu annual international music festival.



Thanks for reading!Took me more than a hour to type all this shit and get all these images.
There are many more cool buildings in Romania,but i don't have enough time to cover them all.
Gave a great day!

swedes has better castles



10/10

Aspect wrote: Tho,you can't compare Peles with this :/

cool

but this is too nationalist for me

*flies away*

lol

I only showed some stuff from Romania

Marco Ubaldo Diaz wrote:
true

but still

*flies away*

We have Romanian people in Scotland, They sound high as shit.

Jordan Johnston wrote: When they talk in english,yes

Romania is me country i love it <3

In Romania you can find Dracula castle

Lithunia has the best castles

Alejandro222 wrote: Aka Castelul Bran

Add me on steam!

Alejandro222 wrote: Link?

Just gonna bump this as I put a lot of work into it!

Sick man!

Looks cool man here in Polska we don't have amazing castles like that.

this is in italy,it's not a castle but a cathedral,still looks sick tho