OLD COURT IN BUCHAREST
VISIT THE RUINS OF VLAD THE IMPALER OR DRACULA OLD COURT
Old Court in Bucharest or Dracula’s Court is in the heart of the Old Town. It is on French Street, near Manuc’s Inn. If you look for it you will also find it as the Old Court Museum. Visitors could enter the citadel for a short period of time. Now authorities closed it because it needs restorations. As far as we know the rulers of Romanian country in the 14th century built this citadel. Actually, it is the oldest medieval construction in Bucharest archaeologists found. Here, see details HERE.
WHERE IS DRACULA COURT BUCHAREST
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Photographed In: Old City, Bucharest
Date Uploaded:2016-03-26
Description: The museum of the Old Court Bucharest is in the Old City on French Street
WE VISITED DRACULA BIRTH PLACE
Mircea the Elder, who ruled the Romanian country twice from 1386 to 1418, is the founder of the old court in Bucharest. At least, this is some historians say. This fortress had defensive walls and ditch. Later, Vlad the Impaler consolidate the fortress. This happened in the 15the century. We learned from a document the Lord Dracula signed in 1458 that he looked for workers at Brasov city. He needed them to renovate the old court on Dambovita River. Historians say it might be the old court in Bucharest. Yet, few know that Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula came from nowadays Transylvania. He was born in Sighisoara. We visited Sighisoara in October 2019 and learn more about Dracula’s birth place.
This fortress is one of the few medieval castles where poeple still live nowadays.
SIGHISOARA TOWER
HOUSE WHERE DRACULA WAS BORN
DRACULA ROOM
OLD COURT IN BUHCAREST OR THE GREAT FORTRESS
In the beginning Old Court of Bucharest was a medieval castle. It had 160 square meters. Vlad Dracula fortified it from 1456 to 1462. This is what tourists will see after the restoration works are over. Yet, some old artifacts are at the ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM, too.
The new fortress was 25.000 square meters and it had great cellars. A church was also built, OLD COURT CHURCH. Here foreign princes came to important meetings.
RUINS OF THE OLD COURT IN BUCHAREST
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Description: Consolidation works started in 2015
CIVILIZATIONS CLASH IN THE MIDDLE OF BUCHAREST AT THE OLD COURT
They said it was the landlord palace, not too big but not too small either, with two towers guarding it and with a great hall with Turkish tapestry. In 1595 the Turks had to retire from the old city of Bucharest and almost demolished the site. A few years later, Gabriel Bathory, a Hungarian prince also came and had to leave and destroyed part of the building too. In 1640, the great Romanian Lord, Matei Basarab found the city in ruin and built a new one, a great one, inspired by Western courts.
Thus, the Old Court in Bucharest has become the office of the Romanian princes, especially when, in 1659 the Royal Court in Targoviste was demolished and is a great attraction for tourists who are in UNIRII SQUARE BUCHAREST, for it is not far away from the center of the capital and nearby you can have lunch at Manuc’s Inn or a City Grill Old Town Bucharest where we last ate a drank something this September( 2019) and we wrote about the experience HERE.
INSIDE THE OLD COURT OF BUCHAREST
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Photographed In: Old City, Bucharest
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Description: Tourists can visit the basement of the Old Court in Bucharest where lords 400 years ago ruled the country
THE END OF THE OLD COURT BUCHAREST AND THE RUINS
Lord Constantin Brancoveanu who will have a cruel fate, being killed by the Turks, after seeing his sons slaughtered too, and Stefan Cantacuzino made the Royal Court or the Old Court of Bucharest a great palace, as a sign of the Romanian political power. In 1716 Austrian army march through the capital and rob the The Old Court. The great fire in 1718, the earthquake in 1738, the war in 1768 and 1774 between Russia and Turkey almost destroyed the Old Court.
It will become the house of poor people, homeless until 1802 when a new earthquake put down part of the walls. A fire in 1804 demolished again almost everything. Today can be visited the underground of the Old Court where Lord Dracula ruled hundred of years ago and his statue can be seen in front of the complex of the Old Court in Bucharest. There is a legend about the tunnels that Vlad The Implaler, or Lord Dracula built during his reign. There are no official evidence, of course. Yet, legends say there is at least one tunnel to go under YOUTH PARK OF BUCHAREST to the Crematory built there more than one hundred year after.
DRACULA STATUE IN FRONT OF THE OLD COURT IN BUCHAREST
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Photographed In: Old City, Bucharest
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Description: The statue of Dracula Romanian Lord is in front of the Old Court in Bucharest
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