Hunyad Castle (Corvin Castle) is a medieval fortress located in Hunedoara, Romania. Often called "the king of castles" by Mikszáth Kálmán, it is one of the most spectacular Gothic-style castles.
The Citadel in Cluj-Napoca is a fortress situated on a 405-meter-high hill originally called Kőmál, next to the Little Someș River (Kis-Szamos).
One of the largest castles in Transylvania and the Székely Land covers an area of more than four hectares.
Construction of the Mikó Castle began in the spring of 1623 and was completed in the 1630s.
The Bánffy Castle of Gilău is one of Transylvania’s most important Renaissance monuments, once the residence of the Rákóczi and Bánffy families, now being restored as a cultural center near Cluj.
From 1267 it was a royal castle, but in 1420 Sigismund pawned it. King Matthias, however, repurchased it and granted it to John Corvinus together with a garrison in his own pay.
Perched atop a 150-meter-high hill, Râșnov Fortress provided protection to the local population with varying success. It was equipped with a watchtower and a small permanent garrison.
In the 1450s, the fortress came under the ownership of Mihály Szilágyi and later John Hunyadi, remaining in the Hunyadi family until the death of John Corvinus.
Known as the "Gateway to Hungary" (Porta Hungariae), the castle once protected the routes of the Amber Road and a major pilgrimage route to the Holy Land.
The first reliable written record of Făgăraș Fortress dates back to 1456.
The stone castle of Fülek in Hungarian and in Slovakian: Fiľakovský hrad was built on the rim of the crater of an extinct volcano, probably from the 13th century onwards, on the site of an earlier wooden fortification
Fehérvár, whose name also reflects the dignity title “gyula” of its builder, was constructed on the foundations – and partly from the stones – of a Roman castrum dating back to the 2nd century.
