Peles Castle, situated in Sinaia, 145 Km. NW from Bucharest, is one of the most important historic buildings in Romania, with unique character, one of the most important monuments of this kind in Europe of the second half of the nineteenth century. Prince Carol I, crowned king of Romania in 1866, visits Sinaia in August the same year and remained thrilled by the beauty of those places. At that time, Sinaia was a small mountain village called Black Bridge. The king decides the building of a castle in a secluded and picturesque place nearby: The Burned Stone. A few years later, in 1872, he bought land (1,000 acres), and 300 workers begun, a year later, under the leadership of architects Johannes Schultz, Karel Liman and Carol Benesch, the rising of the castle. Peles Castle was officially opened in 1883. Recently the castle and its outbuildings were returned to King Michael and the Romanian Royal family.

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