Hunedoara

Industrial city (Vajdahunyad in Hungarian, Eisenmarkt in German or Iron Market) which lies between the Apuseni Mountains and the Southern Carpathians offers tourists a beautiful medieval castle. Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, which was considered the greatest living travel writer described the Hunedoara Castle "is so theatrical and fantastic that, at first look, seems completely unreal." The castle of Matthias Corvinus (in Hungarian: Hunyadi Mátyás said Mattia "the right") was built (by the opera of Iancu de Hunedoara, and later by his son Matthias Corvinus) in the middle of the fourteenth century and represents the prototype of the medieval fortification with its almost thirty metres deep moat, a drawn drawbridge dominated by many towers for an extraordinary glance. The Interior of the castle is in line with the neo-Renaissance exterior construction: galleries, staircases, dozens of incamminamenti, spiral staircases and gothic vaults give them a further sensation of impregnability. Iancu de Hunedoara and his son Matthew Corvinus (Hungarian and Romanian family) were famous for defending the territory against the attacks of the Ottomans. In 1854 the Castle suffered a serious fire, but was faithfully restored up to present as a point of mandatory attraction for tourists who visit the city. Since Roman times were known the reserves of iron ore in the area of Hunedoara (hence the name of the Iron Market) and have been exploited several times after World War II, the Communists built a large steel mill in front of the castle deturpandone landscape (at the moment the local authorities intended to make a point of tourist attraction transforming it into a Museum).

Pictures of Hunedoara                     

 interior castle court          

         view over the castle                 

     internal view of castle          

      castle with suspension bridge

 hall of the knights            

                              tournament representation front of the castle

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