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Brukenthal Palace

Romania · 18th century

Founded
1778
Heritage status
Historic Monument
Location
Sibiu
Coordinates
45.79655°, 24.15055°
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Brukenthal Palace in Romania
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Description

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.

In the rankings

Brukenthal Palace ranks #4,717 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #45 of the 125 mapped in Romania. Founded 1778, it is older than 13% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,023 times in the last 60 days, more than 51% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Sibiu, 1 km away. It is one of the 78 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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