The Bucegi terrace
Stone loggias facing the mountains.
Costea Stefan — CC BY-SA 3.0 ro · Stefan Jurca from Munich, Germany — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Stefan Jurca from Munich, Germany — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Stefan Jurca from Munich, Germany — CC BY-SA 2.0
A national architectural style that emerged around 1900 with Ion Mincu and his school, as a conscious answer to the dominance of French architecture in Bucharest. The idea was to take elements of traditional Romanian building — the open loggia on carved columns, multiple arches, tile, the high pitched roofs of mountain houses, and Brâncovenesc ornament — and combine them in buildings of modern function. The style prevailed in Romania into the 1930s, and you see it in railway stations, schools and villas in every Romanian town; it is the clearest thing that makes a Romanian street look different from its neighbours.
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Cantacuzino Castle stands in the town of Bușteni on the slope of the Bucegi mountains, built in 1911 for Prince Gheorghe Cantacuzino — prime minister of Romania and one of its richest men, nicknamed the Nabob. The building is in the Neo-Romanian style: the manner Ion Mincu developed at the start of the twentieth century by combining Brâncovenesc elements with modern construction — loggias on carved columns, arches, red tile and stone. It holds the largest collection of heraldic arms in Romania, and a terrace looking out at the mountains. The castle became internationally known through use as a filming location, which has raised summer crowding considerably. The grounds are large, with an artificial cave and waterfall. **It lies in the Prahova valley about 26 km from Brașov, 45 minutes by car**, and combines naturally with Peleș Castle at Sinaia in one day. Book ahead in season.
Stone loggias facing the mountains.
An artificial cave and waterfall in a wide park.
Bușteni, Prahova Valley