Castelul Corvinilor

Corvin Castle, also known as Hunyadi Castle or Hunedoara Castle, is a Gothic-Renaissance citadel in Hunedoara, Romania. It is one among the most important castles in Europe and figures in a listing of the Seven Wonders of Romania. Corvin Castle became laid out in 1446, when construction started out on the orders of Voivode of Transylvania John Hunyadi who wanted to transform the former keep built with the aid of Charles I of Hungary. The castle was at the beginning given to John Hunyadi's father, Voyk, through Sigismund of Luxembourg, king of Hungary and Croatia, as severance in 1409.

It changed into also in 1446 that John Hunyadi was elected because the regent-governor by the Diet. Built in a Renaissance-Gothic style and constructed over the website of an older fortification on a rock above the smaller Zla?ti River, the citadel is a large and enforcing shape with tall towers, bastions, an internal courtyard, diversely colored roofs, and myriads of windows and balconies embellished with stone carvings.