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As we were walking around the interior courtyard we couldn't help but being "taken" by its hand painted walls of Saxon influence.
... but the moment we were led up the stairs into the Honour Hall we became speechless ... its walls were dressed with richly carved woodwork of walnut and exotic timbers, French tapestries, some of which on display, with the others being covered up ... a rather unique retractable stained glass panel on the ceiling ...
... grandeur ... eccentricity ... beauty ..., you name it ... and you had it all.
There is something of a mystery surrounding the fact that a man like Carol I with reputed austere taste actually managed to live in such a place, said to have been largely decorated by his eccentric wife Elisabeta, better known by the name of Carmen Sylva, the Romanian novelist.
We continued through several other rooms on the first floor among which was the grand armoury room profusely decorated with a wide array of arms of all sorts and a complete Maximilian armour for horse and rider in a beautiful artistic setting, where the paintings and stained glass panels were therewith associated.
(to be continued)
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