At the heart of a historic region in Transylvania, on the outskirts of the city of Hunedoara, stands grand, crowning a massive rock, the most beautiful gothic castle of Romania.  A defense citadel, it became, in the 14th century, the hereditary seat of the noble family of the Hunniads or the Corvins according to their crest, which turned it into a sumptuous residence.

 

 

 

Find out what personalities are related to the castle throughout history.

1. Sigismund of Luxemburg
2. Ioan de Huniad (Johan Hunniad)
3. Vlad Dracul the Impaler
4. Matthias Corvinus Rex
5. Giovanni Capistrano
6. Elizabeth Szilagyi
7. Gabriel Bethlen

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