Corvin Castle

Hunedoara · Romania · Castle

Corvin Castle in Hunedoara is Transylvania's mightiest Gothic fortress, all drawbridges, towers and a thirty-metre well in its courtyard. Around that well turns the castle's darkest legend: three Turkish prisoners were promised freedom by Iancu de Hunedoara if they found water in the rock. After fifteen years of digging they struck water – but Iancu was dead, and his widow had them beheaded. As a last wish they carved their reproach by the well: water you have, but heart you have not. The prisoners' unquiet spirits are said never to have found peace, and a British Most Haunted television crew claimed contact here with the ghost of a medieval nobleman. Today it is Romania's most visited castle.

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Hvor ligger Corvin Castle?

Corvin Castle ligger i Hunedoara, Romania.

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