Corvin Castle

        One of the most mysterious and beautiful places in Romania, Corvin Castle had many people curious after the release of the popular horror movie, ”The nun”. It is a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Hunedoara, Romania, and one of the largest castles in Europe, being featured as one of the Seven Wonders of Romania.

        The castle was built in a Renaissance-Gothic style and is a large and imposing structure with tall towers, bastions, an inner courtyard, diversely colored roofs, and walls, 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.

        Tourists are told that it was the place where Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia, was held prisoner by John Hunyadi, Hungary's military leader, and regent during the King's minority. Because of these things, the Hunedoara Castle is seen sometimes by tourists as a source of inspiration for the famous Castle Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. 

        The giant structure of the castle gives you chills and the story of it maintains them throughout the whole experience. This place is home to the ghosts of the past and doesn't let anyone in. The people who had the chance to visit it are both stunned and impressed by the memories of it, and they know that the second visit would feel the same and different at the same time.