Nopcsa Castle - Sacel, Szacsal, Romania, Romania

Nopcsa Castle - Sacel

Szacsal, Romania, Romania

Nopcsa Castle in Săcel, Romania, is a 19th-century historicist-style manor built around 1872 by Baron Elek Nopcsa IV, who introduced modern farming techniques like the first threshing machine in Hunedoara County. Located in the Hațeg Geopark near the Retezat Mountains, it features a bastion-like central avant-corps with crenels, jack-arched windows, Tudor-style lintels, an octagonal tower with broken arches, a dragon weather vane, and arcades leading to a park. Home to the adventurous Baron Franz Nopcsa V, a paleontologist who pioneered dwarf dinosaur research from local fossils, the castle was nationalized post-WWII, later used as a school, fell into ruin, but underwent major refurbishment and reopened to the public by 2024-2025 as a cultural site owned by Hunedoara County Council.

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