[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”WHO IS THE OWNER OF PELES AND PELISOR CASTLE?” state=”closed”]According to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the representatives of the Royal House of Romania and those of the Ministry of Culture, on March 1, 2007, the Peleș and Pelișor buildings were rescinded to the Romanian Royal Family, and the movable heritage is part of the national heritage and was not subject to rescission. The Royal Family leased the two buildings to the state, which function as museums, administered by the Ministry of Culture.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”SINCE WHAT YEAR DID PELES CASTLE HAVE HEATING AND ELECTRICITY?” state=”closed”]Peles Castle has had electricity and heating since its inauguration, in 1883.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”HOW MANY ROOMS DOES PELES CASTLE HAVE?” state=”closed”]Peles Castle has approximately 160 rooms.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”ARE THERE ROOMS FOR RENT AT PELES CASTLE?” state=”closed”]Peles Castle and Pelisor Castle operate as museums subordinate to the Ministry of Culture. There are no rooms for rent within the Peles National Museum.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”DOES THE ROYAL FAMILY LIVE AT PELES CASTLE?” state=”closed”]The Romanian royal family does not live at Peles Castle.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF PELES CASTLE DURING THE TIME OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU?” state=”closed”]During the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, Peles Castle was designated as a protocol space.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”IS THERE A SWIMMING POOL AT PELES CASTLE?” state=”closed”]Peles and Pelisor Castles do not have swimming pools. There is a general preconception about this, stemming from public images of Foisor Castle, the protocol residence of the Romanian State.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”ARE THERE ROMANIAN WEAPONS IN THE WEAPONS COLLECTION OF PELES CASTLE?” state=”closed”]The weapons collection of the Peles National Museum also includes a number of Romanian weapons, such as the rifle invented by Vasile Buescu.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”WHAT BOOKS AND SUBJECTS DID KING CHARLES I PREFER?” state=”closed”]Although the king had a solid military background (he was a good connoisseur of military history), he passionately studied the history of art and culture, monographs of famous painters, books on architecture, geography, and fiction. It was known at the time that “politics and art competed for first place in the king’s heart.”[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”HOW MANY FOREIGN LANGUAGES DID KING CHARLES I SPEAK?” state=”closed”]Charles I knew and spoke (in addition to his native language, German) French and English, assimilating Romanian quite quickly, even though a strong German accent was perceptible.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”WHAT WAS THE AMOUNT SPENT BY KING CHARLES I ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF PELES CASTLE?” state=”closed”]According to the Peles Castle monograph written by Mihai Haret in 1924, the construction of Peles Castle cost approximately 16.5 million gold lei.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”DO THERE EXIST GOLDEN ENGRAVED TABLETS/PLATS AT PELES?” state=”closed”]There have never been such tablets or plaques within the Peles National Museum.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”WHICH PERSONALITIES VISITED PELES CASTLE, BOTH DURING THE MONARCHY AND DURING CEAUSESCU’S TIME AND AFTER 1989?” state=”closed”]“He had spent a lifetime collecting all these priceless things because he was a man who lived for others, spending only a little on himself” – Queen Maria Carol I felt the need for everything he had collected to be seen. Hence the idea of opening the castle to the visiting public (he had his father’s model, who had opened the gates of Sigmaringen Castle wide since 1867). This would happen frequently after 1914. The monarch’s desire for Peles to be visited would continue even after his death, although the castle was no longer inhabited regularly, Ferdinand and Maria preferring Pelisor, and Carol II and Mihai Foisor. But Peles hosted distinguished guests, and Carol II used it for official events, usually using his uncle's study. The money collected from various visits, from 1920 onwards, was donated to Queen Maria's charity works. Later, after the nationalization in 1948, the castle would even become a museum (officially in 1953). Open to the Romanian public, it was even more open to foreign visitors, especially those of aristocratic rank, not to mention official guests of Romania. Among the most distinguished guests, during the time of Carol I, was Emperor Franz-Joseph, in 1896, on which occasion Romania's treaty with the Triple Alliance was renewed, right at the castle. This fact is confirmed by a commemorative relief by Jean-Jules Lecomte du Nouy and located in the marble hall. The guests of Carol I are Prince Alexander of Battenberg of Bulgaria, much appreciated by the Romanian royal family, Tsar Ferdinand, Alexander's successor, not at all esteemed at court, King Gustav of Sweden, Queen Emma of the Netherlands and Maria Theresa of Bavaria. Archdukes Rudolf and Stephanie of Habsburg come to Peles and are entertained, in 1884, as does Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, in 1909, the year in which Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany also comes to Peles. Iussuf Izzedin, the heir to the Ottoman Empire, comes from Istanbul. The Romanian royal family is visited at Peles by Grand Duke Boris of Russia, Duke Alfred of Edinburgh, Charlotte and Bernhard III of Sachsen-Meiningen and numerous other relatives of the Romanian royal family. An occasion of satisfaction for the sovereigns, proud of the riches of the castle and the beauty of the surroundings. Also at Peles, many of the queen's guests at her cultural events are hosted, especially at concerts (almost daily, usually held by the queen on the piano, G. Enescu on the violin and Dinicu on the cello). The poet Vasile Alecsandri was the queen's favorite and one of her most valuable advisors. Princess Maria met at the queen's concerts personalities such as Sarah Bernhardt, Catulle Mendes, Sarasate, Hubermann, the French writer Pierre Loti, etc. For all of them, wrote Maria, Carmen Sylva "knew how to cherish them, to awaken their sympathy and enthusiasm. She ignited their imagination with words of praise, listened to them with bated breath and poured out on their heads wise appreciations and everyone left her side subjugated by her charm". Peles was far from Europe if you looked at its map, but through its riches and through the generosity and wisdom of sovereigns endowed with dynastic grace, it became part of the continent and the soul of an increasingly European country. The period of N. Ceausescu For Gerald Ford, the president of the United States who was visiting the Mioritic lands, the hosts also organized a visit to Peles. Legend has it that the guest declared himself delighted with the castle and the view and that, influenced by the good impressions of the American, Ceausescu decided to remove the former royal residence from the public circuit and transform it into a protocol residence for distinguished guests. As a result of the decision, Peles underwent major repairs. As in other protocol residences, Ceausescu rarely set foot in Peles. Twice, the "Bulgarian counterpart" Todor Zhivkov was received and entertained here, and the third time the East German leader Erich Honecker was the host. Since 1982, the former summer residence of the kings has not been used at all.[/stag_toggle]

[stag_toggle style=”normal” title=”HOW HIGH IS PELES CASTLE?” state=”closed”]The Clock Tower of Peles Castle measures 66 meters.[/stag_toggle]