Romania · 16th century
Brașov Fortress (Romanian: Cetățuia, Hungarian: Fellegvár, German: Schloß) is a group of historic buildings forming a fortress from the medieval period, situated on a hill called Martinsberg, or Schlossberg, near the historic centre of the city of Brașov in Brașov County in Transylvania, Romania. It has the recognised status of a cultural monument and a national architectural monument. It is one of the most important monuments in Brașov.
Machine-translated from “Brašovská pevnosť” on the Slovak Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brașov Fortress ranks #4,641 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #43 of the 125 mapped in Romania. Founded 1524, it is older than 41% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 886 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,082 times in the last 60 days, more than 52% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Brașov, 1 km away. It is one of the 78 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. It is stop 8 of 26 on the Transylvania castle route, Bran to Cluj-Napoca. See how Romania compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →