Zabola Estate - The Mikes Domain

❗️ 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. 

❗️ IMPORTANT! Temporarily closed for renovation. 🏰 The Daniel-castle, as well as the park surrounding it, is one of the most well-known monuments in Erdővidék. The details of the building-complex strung along the longitudinal east-west axis are witnessing the sequences of several rebuilding’s and restorations. The chronology of the building process can also be described from east to west. Its earliest wing, namely the flat ceiling room of the main building and the intersecting-barrel-vaulted one, has allegedly been built in the late 16th century. In the mid-17th century, Ferenc Daniel expanded the building with several rooms with a westward view. Also, it is very likely that he was the one building the protection gallery on the northern facade, which has since been included into the overall volume of the building. 📜 The castle became famous mostly for its many late renaissance stone carvings that adorn its southern facade, but none of them – except for the pillars of the loggia – is in its initial spot. In 1687, one of the most spectacular structural elements of the castle, the southern arcaded portico, was erected thanks to István Daniel. At the corners of the main building, the three baroque avant-corps with curved gables, framing from both, the right- and the left-hand-side the cross-vaulted arches of the loggia arcade were also built by István Daniel, who was known to have been the famous chief royal judge of Udvarhelyszék in 1723. The main entry, just as it can still be seen today, must have been built during the aforementioned reparations, too, because its frame bears fragments of similar late renaissance stone carvings. 🧱 Elek Daniel started a somewhat more comprehensive construction in 1797, resulting in the levelled wing of the palace, as well as the penthouse roof on the main building. Inserted between the windows with segmental arches, the huge double coat-of-arms made of sandstone bears the inscription „1745”. The embellished carving was probably ordered to mark the election of István Daniel as chief royal judge of Scaunul Odorheiului/ Udvarhelyszék, and it represented the coat-of-arms of the castle owner, and also that of his wife, Perki Polyxena. Gábor Daniel erected the two-levelled circular bastion attached to the south-western corner of the palace wing between 1850 and 1853. During the same period, a neoclassical wing was added to the northern face of the main building. ⚜️ The castle was amended with several new elements throughout the 20th century. Somewhere around 1920, Ferenc Daniel attached a round bastion to the north-eastern corner of the neoclassical wing, and in 1937 he had the last extension works concluded. The westward open loggia, with the little belfry in its corner, was also built in that very period. Such as the northern, two-levelled stone loggia, recalling a somewhat renaissance atmosphere, which was duly accomplished under the guidance of the art historian József Keöpeczi Sebestyén.  🔗  Text source: https://www.virtualisszekelyfold.ro/en/pano/28

🤎📻 The "Haszmann Pál" Museum in Cernat is set in the Damokos mansion, built in a neoclassical style. Exhibits from the building heritage of Szeklerland are displayed on the two hectares around the mansion: houses and gates of the szeklers, a water mill, as well as Szekler funerary monuments carved from wood and stone. The exhibition of tools and agricultural machines in the open air provokes the curiosity of the visitors, being unique in Transylvania. 🚜 🔸 You can find more information about the museum HERE.

🏛 The Museum of Transylvanian Life in the 17th century Kálnoky Castle takes you into the former world of Transylvanian aristocrats. The restored hunting lodge opened its doors in April 2017. In its rooms you can see original weapons, reconstructions of period clothes, popular books of the aristocrats and old musical instruments. True music lovers will also be able to see an original Streicher piano, the same model as the one played by the German composer Johannes Brahms. The period setting includes a huge park. 📆 Guided castle tour is starting in every hour, based on reservation. Opening hours: ❗️ Monday-Thursday: entry by prior arrangement (last guided tour at 16:00) 📍 Friday-Sunday: 11:00-16:00 (last guided tour at 16:00) 🎫 Tickets can be purchased: •  for individual visitors: Micloșoara, nr. 186. •  for groups: Micloșoara, nr. 85., StonePub.