Romania · 13th century
The Wass-Bánffy castle in Gilău, Cluj (also Gyalu), is a former noble residence in the municipal territory of Gilău, Cluj County, in the Romanian region of Transylvania. The origins of the castle go back to the period of the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century.
Machine-translated from “Schloss Gilău” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wass-Bánffy castle in Gilău, Cluj ranks #6,910 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #66 of the 125 mapped in Romania. Founded c. 1300, it is older than 60% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cluj-Napoca, 16 km away. It is one of the 78 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. It is stop 19 of 26 on the Transylvania castle route, Bran to Cluj-Napoca. See how Romania compares in the castle statistics.
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