Martinuzzi Castle

Martinuzzi Castle ruins
Martinuzzi Castle
George Martinuzzi was assassinated by General Castaldo within the castle walls in December 1551

Martinuzzi Castle, also known as Alvinc Castle,[1] is a medieval castle in Vințu de Jos, in the Transylvania region of Romania. The fortress was one of the earliest and most influential works of the Italian Renaissance style in Transylvania.[2][3] Its ruins are classed as a national heritage site, identified as AB-II-m-B-00394 in Romania's National Register of Historic Monuments.

  1. ^ István Keul (2009). Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe: Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526–1691). Leiden / Boston, 2009. Brill. p. 85
  2. ^ Dora Wiebenson, József Sisa, Pál Lővei (1998). The Architecture of Historic Hungary. MIT Press. p. 67.
  3. ^ Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny, Vangelis Kechriotis (2010). Modernism: Representations of National Culture. Central University Press. p. 370

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