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Extract from the Hunedoara Travel Guides:
HUNEDOARA
(Vajdahunyad/Eisenmarkt), 16km south of Deva, would be dismissed as an ugly, smoggy, industrial town were it not also the site of
Corvin Castle
, the greatest fortress in Romania (Tues-Sun 9am-5pm). The travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor found its appearance "so fantastic and theatrical that, at first glance, it looks totally unreal". It's moated to a depth of 30m and approached by a narrow bridge upheld by tall stone piers, terminating beneath a mighty barbican, its roof bristling with spikes, overlooked by multitudes of towers, "some square and some round and all of them frilled with machicolation...
read the whole Hunedoara Travel Guides...
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