Peleș Castle
Peleș Castle is a Neo-Renaissance palace in the Royal Domain of Sinaia in the Carpathian Mountains, near Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, on an existing medieval route linking Transylvania and Wallachia, built between 1873 and 1914.Photo: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: Neo-Renaissance royal castle in Sinaia, Romania
- Also known as: “Sinaia castle” and “Sinaia palace complex”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pelișor Castle and Foișor Castle.
Pelișor Castle
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
The Pelișor Castle is a castle in Sinaia, Romania, part of the same complex as the larger castle of Peleș. Pelișor Castle is situated 290 metres west of Peleș Castle.
Foișor Castle
Castle
Photo: Rotaru Florin, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro.
Foișor Castle is situated 540 metres west of Peleș Castle.
Sinaia Monastery
Monastery
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
The Sinaia Monastery, located in Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, was founded by Prince Mihail Cantacuzino in 1695 and named after the great Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt. Sinaia Monastery is situated 740 metres southeast of Peleș Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bușteni and Azuga.
Bușteni
Photo: Stefan Jurca, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bușteni is in the Carpathian Mountains in the Muntenia region of Romania. It is the main "entry point" to Bucegi Mountains, a high and scenic mountain range that attracts many tourists.
Azuga
Photo: Whitepixels, CC0.
Azuga is a town in the Prahova County, Romania. It is a mountain resort town in the Prahova Valley, flanked by the Bucegi and Baiului mountain ranges.
Ialomița Valley
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ialomița Valley is a valley in Dambovita County in the mountainous north of Romania.
Peleș Castle
- Categories: palace, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sinaia, Prahova, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.36009° or 45° 21′ 36″ northLongitude
25.54288° or 25° 32′ 34″ eastInception
1873Open location code
8GQ79G6V+25OpenStreetMap ID
way 1454368027OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q917702
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Peleș Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قصر بيليش”
- Armenian: “Պելեշ (դղյակ)”
- Armenian: “Պելեշ”
- Azerbaijani: “Peleș qəsri”
- Bashkir: “Пелеш һарайы”
- Basque: “Peleș gaztelua”
- Belarusian: “Замак Пелеш”
- Bulgarian: “Пелеш”
- Catalan: “castell de Peleș”
- Catalan: “Castell de Peleș”
- Chinese: “佩莱什城堡”
- Chinese: “佩萊什城堡”
- Czech: “Zámek Peleș”
- Danish: “Peleș Slot”
- Dutch: “Kasteel Peles”
- Dutch: “Kasteel Peleş”
- Dutch: “Kasteel Peleș”
- French: “château de Peleș”
- French: “Château de Peleș”
- Georgian: “პელეშის ციხესიმაგრე”
- German: “Schloss Peleș”
- Greek: “Κάστρο Πέλες”
- Hebrew: “ארמון פלש”
- Hungarian: “Peleș-kastély”
- Indonesian: “Istana Peleş”
- Indonesian: “Istana Peleș”
- Irish: “Caisleán Peleș”
- Italian: “castello di Peleș”
- Italian: “Castello di Peleș”
- Japanese: “ペレシュ城”
- Korean: “펠레슈 성”
- Korean: “펠레슈성”
- Latvian: “Pelešas pils”
- Marathi: “पेलेस किल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peles slott”
- Polish: “Pałac Peleș”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Peleș”
- Portuguese: “Palácio de Peleș”
- Romanian: “Castelul Peleș”
- Russian: “Замок Пелеш”
- Serbian: “Дворац Пелеш”
- Slovenian: “Grad Peleș”
- Spanish: “Castillo Peleș”
- Thai: “ปราสาทเปเลช”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Пелеш”
- Welsh: “Castell Peleș”
- Yue Chinese: “佩萊什城堡”
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