Peles Castle - Sinaia, Prahova County

The best memory one can get from Romania is, no doubt about it, the visit to Peles Castle.

Visit it in spring, in summer, in fall and in winter, love your every second you spend there, because you'll always want to go back. Even if you don't usually like "castles", with Peles will be love at first sight.

This palace, because it looks more like a palace than castle, was built between 1875 and 1914 by the King Carol I at a cost of 16 million... (read more).

Pelisor Castle - Sinaia, Prahova County

Besides "The Big Palace", how Queen Maria used to call the Pales castle, one can visit the smaller and coquette Pelisor Castle, the summer residence of Romania's second king, Ferdinand of Hohenzollern.

Pelisor Castle was decorated by Queen Maria herself in an original, unique style, combining Byzantine, Brancovenesc (Romanian architectural style) and Celtic features.

The most famous room is perhaps the... (read more).

Bran Castle - Bran, Brasov County

Bran Castle is mostly known as the castle of Dracula.

Well, who is this Dracula? Was he real? What did he do? When and where did he live? And why is he called Dracula (Dracul = Devil, in Romanian)?

Dracula was a Romanian prince (who became later king), called Vlad Tepes (or Vlad the Impaler). In sign of recognition for the battles he faught against the turks, Vlad's father was titled the order "The Knight of the Dragon". Now the Romanian word "Dracul"...(read more)

Iulia Hasdeu Palace - Campina, Prahova County

The background of this castle is a very sad story about Julia Hasdeu, the daughter of B.P. Hasdeu, a Romanian historian, writter and journalist.

Julia Hasdeu was a beautiful, smart and extremelly talented girl. At the age of 4 she was already reading and writting, at 7 she was writting poetry, at 11 gratuated the Conservatory (piano) and at the same time was a brilliant student (best in her class) at Sevigne College in Paris. After enterring the Sorbonne Faculty of Letters and Philisophy...(read more)

Culture Palace - Targu Mures, Mures County

You can't miss the Culture Palace in Targu Mures if you arrived to Mures County.

This magnificent building boasts with valuable attractions such as The Mirrors Hall, Hungarian stained glass, the Concerts Hall and so on.

Here too, as in many other Romanian palaces and castles, love is a main theme. The stained glass represents four different love scenes: love for money...(read more)

Corvin Castle - Hunedoara, Hunedoara County

Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles meet here to create a unique 14th century castle.

There are many legends related to Corvin Castle, the most famous being the legend of the raven.
The symbol of the old Corvin familly is a raven holding a golden ring in its beak. The legend sais that John of Hunedoara (Ioan de Hunedoara) was the illegitimate son of king Sigismund and his mother was Elisabeta, a beautiful woman from the region of Hateg...(read more)

Royal Palace (or National Museum of Art) - Bucharest

The National Museum of Art is hosted by the former Royal Palace and it is the most representative art gallery in Romania. It is located in downtown Bucharest in the Revolution Square (Piata Revolutiei).

So, if you have other plans, it’s time to change them and go see the National Art Museum of Romania. Hosted in the former Royal Palace, this museum displays works of Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet, El Greco, Picasso and also by famous Romanian painters as Grigorescu...(read more)

Palace of Parliament - Bucharest: See what HUGE means in Romanian!

Don't waste your time! Go there!

See what HUGE means in Romanian: Visit the Palace of Parliament.

“Do you like it?” This is the question that almost all foreigners visiting the Palace of Parliament are asked on the spot by their Romanian friends or guides. Do you like it...?, we don't know but you will be shocked, and believe us, everybody visiting this building is...(read more)