Kálnoky Castle - Museum of Transylvanian Life

🏰 The castle's park can only be visited by prior reservation or during public events! ☎✉️ ❗️ The minimum number of tourists is 2 people, and the maximum number is 10 people, in the absence of public events. 👥 Please note that during certain periods, the estate hosts private events 🎉, and visitor access may be restricted. 🕐 Tours take place between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. and last approximately one hour, including coffee or tea at the beginning. ☕🍵 📍 To avoid any inconvenience, please inquire in advance by phone. 📞 ⚜️ Zabola is a unique estate, and not only in Transylvania. If you want to experience the countryside in an unusual setting, the Mikes estate in Zăbala is the ideal destination. The park, part of the 15th-century castle, covers an area of over 50 hectares, where you can ride a bike, take a horse-drawn carriage ride, or take a guided tour of the estate, discovering the history of the Mikes family. 🌳 A perfectly maintained English garden with two lakes and four ponds, pavilions, terraces, a sauna in the forest, stables, barns, and paths for walking, horseback riding, and carriage rides await you.  🌿 🐾 The rich nature and wildlife we live alongside are of great importance to us. Along with wild ducks, storks, and gray herons, the estate's garden and adjacent forest are home to bears, deer, wild boars, wolves, lynxes, bats, squirrels, owls, eagles, frogs, and all sorts of smaller animals. We strive in a prudent manner to make this nature available to our visitors. 💚 💳 Prices: • Adults: 70 lei/person 👤 • Children (6-14 years old): 35 lei/person 🧒 • Children under 6 years old: free 🎉 We look forward to seeing you! 🧡 📸 Zabola Estate

✨ We invite you to a little corner of heaven, where tradition still lives on! 🌄 At the foot of Piliștea Peak, nestled in a spacious countryside yard, we’ve lovingly preserved the soul of the Romanian village - so that you may rediscover its charm. 🏡 You’ll find a traditional house and barn, a wood-fired bread oven that fills the air with the scent of childhood, a scenic viewpoint with breathtaking landscapes, an exhibition of old village artifacts that tell forgotten stories, and traditional craft workshops where you can create with your own hands. 📜🕰️ 🛏️ Our guestrooms, furnished with a deep love for authenticity and tradition, await you with comfort and serenity - far from the noise of modern life. 🌿 Come reconnect with nature, with simplicity, and with the beauty of a life lived at a slower pace. We welcome you with open arms and warm hearts! 💚 📍 Visits are available by prior appointment only.

The exhibition invites you on a historical adventure, where you can experience 400 years of history, gaining an insight into the diplomatic peculiarities of the Principality of Transylvania, but also into the gastronomy of the period. At the end of your visit, you will also get answers to questions such as: what did they eat at a princely banquet, or can you substitute a groom at a wedding?

👸🏼 This unique private collection is a collection of dolls, furniture, ornaments and old pictures belonging to the Nagy family. Known as the Olga Gallery, the gallery includes classic and modern porcelain dolls, artist dolls, limited edition dolls, character dolls, vinyl dolls. You can find large dolls of the characters from the television series The Lord of the Rings, but also Mother Teresa or Princess Diana. You'll learn when and how the first porcelain dolls were made, and at the end of your visit you'll discover that doll-making is not just an entire world, but a complex and demanding craft. "The Gallery was founded in 2010 with 175 dolls, and today I am the owner of 1,000 dolls. The museum's material is entirely a private collection, the result of years of collecting. My collection includes classic and modern porcelain dolls, artist dolls, limited edition dolls, character dolls, vinyl dolls, and many more. These dolls are more than just ephemeral toys with their lifelike designs and masterfully stitched clothes. The Doll's Gallery is known as Olga Gallery, named after my husband's mother. The museum is not educational, the doll gallery is a fairy tale and reality, a fairy tale that comes to life. Memories, dreams and desires all come to life here. I recommend this experience for all ages." - says Ibolya Nagy, founder of the Olga Gallery. 🧡 ❗️ To visit you need a prior appointment by phone.

🕰🖋 In the House of Collections, owned by Ernő Beke and his family and opened on 29 August 2010, you can see an impressive collection of all kinds of collectibles: from thimbles to padlocks, from pocket watches to badges. You'll also find one of Europe's largest collections of Kinder figurines, with over 10,000 pieces on display. You can also admire thousands of ballpoint pens, perfumes and beer bottles. A beautifully decorated room is dedicated to the 1848 War of Independence. So far, all visitors have been amazed by the more than 50,000 objects on display. 😍 ❗️Visits require prior appointment.

❗️ The museum can be visited by prior telephone appointment only. 📞  🏠 A House with a Story – A Journey Through Time ⌛  The Valea Zălanului Village Museum was brought to life by local historian and ethnographer Barna Préda. Built in 1896 by his great-great-grandparents, the house has been carefully restored using traditional materials and techniques, preserving the authentic charm of Szekler architecture. 🖼️ Fascinating Collections The museum tells the story of the village from its early days to the mid-20th century. Some of its most valuable exhibits include: ✨ Handcrafted Glass Collection – a precious legacy from collector Zoltán Karácsony. ✨ Traditional Tools & Artifacts – everyday objects once used by the villagers of Valea Zălanului. ✨ Historic Documents – dowry letters, old contracts, and photographs, including 19th-century agreements signed by Count Kálnoky. ✨ Military History – wartime photographs, uniforms, decorations, and memorabilia. 🧶 An Interactive Experience Visitors can admire authentic textiles from Valea Zălanului and even try their hand at weaving on a fully functional loom! 🔎 Step back in time and explore history in an authentic setting!

☎️📻 Sepsi TeleTár has more than 3,500 communication devices, which are still mostly functional. The goal of the location is to acquire, preserve and display the historical telecommunications equipment of Szeklerland, such as transmitters, receivers, audio and video recording devices and other related hardwares. TeleTár will promulgate and disseminate the heritage of the telecommunications industry and be a resource for those interested in that history, including both children and adults. Most of the devices are of great interest to the new generation, who will discover that the world didn’t start with the touchscreen smartphone. Listen to music on a record player - no DJs here - and write a letter on a typewriter about your trip to Covasna County - then mail it at the Post Office. The recipient will be delighted for sure! ❗️ An appointment is required on weekends and outside the opening hours.

❗️ The Koréh-Dénes mansion can be visited by prior appointment. 📞✉️ ⚜️ It is one of the most beautiful manor-houses of Bicfalău. During its renovation the old decorations and characteristics were restored, so it was restored its exterior painting from the 18th century, and its door`s stucco-decoration, made in 1830. Presently functions as a family house, it is the headquarters of the Transylvanian Art and Heritage Association, but it can be visited with booking.  Its owners if requested organize guided mansion visiting tours in the village and also show you the exhibitions of the Bicfalău Cultural Centre, where you can see the historical stove tiles collection, arhive recordings about the manor-houses of Covasna County, the Magical Bicfalău exhibition and the international contemporary arts photo documents, that were created in nature. Guided tour in romanian: 0724 100 352 Guided tours in hungarian and english: 0724 519 924

❗️ We recommend prior consultation before visiting. 📞  📜 Throughout history, there have always been those "Return Home, Wanderer" who, sadly, could never return home, much as they would have liked to. Such was Kelemen Mikes, author of the Letters from Turkey, chamberlain to Ferenc Rákóczi II. Visit the Szentkereszty Castle, where the writer and translator spent part of his childhood. After the confiscation of his estates, the Szentkereszty family inherited the building. It is now a museum with memorial rooms to Kelemen Mikes, Vilmos Csutak, Manyi Kiss and Géza Domokos. ⚜️ This manor from Zagon is one of the most significant buildings of the Mikes family, and it already existed in the 17th century, as indicated by an inscription in one of the beams, which includes the year number 1632, and the initials B:M and E:D.