Brukenthal Palace

The Brukenthal Palace in Sibiu is a palace built between 1778 and 1788 in the city of Sibiu by Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, governor of the Grand Principality of Transylvania (1777–1787). It was raised in stages, intended to serve as the official residence of Baron von Brukenthal and as the seat of his collections. The palace is located on the west side of the Piața Mare, at Piața Mare no. 4.

The Brukenthal Palace in Sibiu, today the Brukenthal Museum, was included on the List of Historic Monuments of Sibiu County in 2015, with classification code SB-II-m-A-12094.

Machine-translated from “Palatul Brukenthal din Sibiu” on the Romanian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brukenthal Palace ranks #4,828 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #46 of the 126 mapped in Romania. Founded 1778, it is older than 15% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 638 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Sibiu, 1 km away. It is one of the 79 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. It is stop 12 of 26 on the Transylvania castle route, Bran to Cluj-Napoca. See how Romania compares in the castle statistics.

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