Corvin castle 1 day tour from Oradea

We begin our trip early in the morning heading to Huneadoara town the place where the castle is located. Once there we shall buy the tickets and visit the castle. The castle guide will give the explanations in Romanian and the tour guide will translate.

The castle is a large and imposing structure with tall towers, bastions, an inner courtyard, diversely coloured roofs, and myriad windows and balconies adorned with stone carvings. The castle also features a double wall for enhanced fortification and is flanked by both rectangular and circular towers, an architectural innovation for the period's Transylvanian architecture. Some of the towers (the Capistrano Tower, the Deserted Tower and the Drummers' Tower) were used as prisons. The Buzdugan Tower (named after a type of mace) was solely built for defensive purposes and it had its exterior decorated with geometric motifs. The rectangular towers have large openings to accommodate larger weapons.

The tower (called "Neboisa" which means "Don't be afraid" in Serbo-Croatian), which remained unchanged from John Hunyadi's time, and the Capistrano Tower (named after the saint, Franciscan friar from the Battle of Belgrade in 1456) are some of the most significant parts of the construction.

Other significant parts of the building are the Knights' Hall (a great reception hall), the Diet Hall, the torture chambers where various torture tools are exposed, a fountain dug by three Turkish prisoners who were promised freedom when job was done. It took them 15 years and 28 days to reach water but finally they were killed, the prison where the convicted were thrown to the wild beasts.

Late in the evening we shall return in Oradea.