romania One view of the castle

1482 - Károlyi Láncz László starts thebuilding of a house out of stone.

1592 - Károlyi Mihály fortifies it in form of a castleagainst the Turks.

1699 - Károlyi Sándor reconstructs it in ornamented form.

1794 - Count Károlyi József demolishes the old castleand builds a palace.

1894 - Count Károlyi Pista converts it into a knight palace.

The palace is a masterpiece of the architecture of the town. The firstbuilding was raised in 1482: a fortified house. In the year 1592, infront of the turkish danger, was transformed in a castle: withprotecting ditch and rectangular towers. The castle played in the 16thand 17th century an important role in the row of so called "bordercastles" (type Vauban").

The castle was demolished in 1794, and in its place a palace wasbuilt: the headquarters of the family Károlyi.

The architect Arthur Mering rebuilds in 1894 the palace in its todayform: rectangular plan, four corner towers, predominantly in newgothic architectural style. On the south side of the palace anamphilade of gothic art can be observed: alternating windows and boundcolumns. The building acts through the fléche towers on theNorth side monumental.

The interior courtyard of the old palace was changed into an Atrium.Its lateral closings consist out of two loggias with each threeopenings, with baskethead vaults, a monumental staircase, a fireplaceout of marmor and a painted timber coffered ceiling.

In the castle courtyard there is also a statue of Florian, the socalled "fire guardian" - the statue is the only one which remained inthe city after a fire, which left its traces in the memory of theinhabitants.

Since 1996 the Romanian culture ministry left a restoration andstrengthening buildings site of the palace to be opened.

The framing and perspective is not good. Vertical lines aren't anywhere close to vertical, the entire structure seems to be leaning.

Try stepping back a few steps.

The powerlines also detract from the motive. Unless you feel it's cheating, the picture would look better if you cloned them out.

Thank you for the comment.

I agree the framing is far from perfect, especially on the right side, but it was the best of the photos of this side of the castle I've taken ... (you can imagine how is the rest).

Unfortunately I couldn't step more back, since there was the forest, and I would have had trees in the frame ...

ciao

Maria

PS: Yes, I do feel it is cheating.