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This entry covers the first floor of Peleș Castle, located in Sinaia, Romania. It was the summer residence of Romanian King Carol I.

After touring the ground floor of Peleș Castle, an optional tour of the first floor is available. The first floor contains some of the more private rooms utilized by the royal family and their guests.

 

Grand Staircase

First, the guide led the group up the grand staircase, which is decorated with wooden sculptures. One is the palace dwarf, who holds the keys to the castle and welcomes guests.

Grand staircase
Palace dwarf at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Palace dwarf

 

Marble Gallery

The first room on the tour of the first floor of Peleș Castle is the Marble Gallery, or Italian Room. It’s decorated with marble columns and pediments above the doors. There’s also a large tapestry on the wall. It opens to the Concert Hall.

Italian room at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Italian room

 

Concert Hall

The Concert Hall was decorated in 1906 in an Elizabethan English style. The upper part of the walls are covered in cordovan leather. The room features a harpsichord made in Antwerp, a grand piano, and an Austrian organ with 1,796 pipes. The organ has one keyboard in the Concert Hall and another in room next door, which is a unique feature for an organ in Europe.

Concert hall at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Concert hall
Cordovan leather
Organ

 

New Music Room

The other keyboard of the organ is in the New Music Room. The furniture is made of teak wood from India and took three generations of artists over 100 years to carve it. It was a gift to King Carol II from Jagatjit Singh, the Maharajah of Kapurthala, in 1936. Chinese and Japanese porcelain is displayed on the other side of the room.

Organ
New Music Room at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
New Music Room
New Music Room

 

Queen’s Office

The Queen’s Office is decorated in an Italian Neo Renaissance style. It contains the Queen’s desk and an original Remington typewriter. The stained glass windows are inspired by fairy tales. The Queen’s Office is connected to the Royal Bedroom, but the path takes visitors through a hallway rather than entering directly.

Queen’s Office at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Queen’s Office
Hallway at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Hallway

 

Royal Bedroom

The Royal Bedroom has Flemish decorations with panels made of walnut. The King and Queen slept together. The bedroom is connected to the Dressing Room, which features one of the Queen’s jewelry boxes on the table. It’s made of English porcelain.

Royal Bedroom at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Royal Bedroom
King's Wardrobe at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Dressing Room

 

Royal Bathroom

The Royal Bathroom is split into two rooms. One room is an actual bathroom with a bidet and a tub made of nickel, both original. The bathroom also had hot and cold running water as well as a flushing toilet.

Royal Bathroom at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Royal Bathroom

The other room in the Royal Bathroom was a large room where the King would rest after his bath. It includes a comfortable sofa as well as a table and chairs. There’s also a wash basin with a mirror.

Royal Bathroom at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Royal Bathroom
Wash basin

 

Royal Breakfast Room

The Royal Breakfast Room is where the King and Queen would eat breakfast. It features a table with an original tablecloth and porcelain. At the window is a small office where the King would read his mail every morning. The stove in the corner of the room is made of Swiss porcelain but is only decorative in nature.

Breakfast room at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Breakfast room
Stove

 

King’s Adjutant’s Room

Down another corridor is the King’s Adjutant’s Room, where the King would receive reports from his adjutant every morning. It contains a large desk and a small writing table directly opposite. The room is decorated in the Flemish style.

Desk in the King’s Adjutant’s Room
Writing table

 

Bedroom

This bedroom was decorated in a French Rococo style inspired by Fontainebleau Castle and is completely covered in gold foil. It contains a small corner where ladies used to serve five o’clock tea. Above the decorative heater is a decorative plate depicting the marriage of Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain.

Corner
Decorative heater
Decorative plate depicting the marriage of Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain

The queen-sized bed is where Queen Marie gave birth to the future King Carol II on October 15, 1893. The wardrobe in the room contains a secret passageway.

Bed where King Carlos II was born at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Bed where King Carlos II was born
Writing desk

 

Living Room

The living room attached to the bedroom was decorated in a modern style. The furniture is made of fir and Italian ceramics and porcelain can be found throughout the room. It contains a full bathroom

Living room at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Living room
Wash basin
Bathtub

 

Imperial Apartment

The Imperial Apartment was a guest room decorated in 1906 in an Austrian Neo Baroque style. The furniture was made in Vienna and the room is lit by a Russian chandelier made of Bohemian crystal. The Imperial Apartment was meant for the visit of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria. He was invited for the 40th anniversary of the ascension of King Carol I to the throne but never went. Attached to the Imperial Apartment is a room to house butlers who were supposed to travel with Franz Josef I to Peleș Castle.

Imperial Apartment at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Imperial Apartment

 

Breakfast Room of the Imperial Apartment

The Breakfast Room of the Imperial Apartment is decorated in the Louis XV style and features cordovan leather on the walls. The furniture is upholstered with tapestries.

Queen's reception room at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Breakfast Room

 

Drawing Room

The Drawing Room contains 18th century Breton rustic furniture and overlooks the Hall of Honour. On display is a collection of valuable silver pieces.

Drawing Room at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Drawing Room

 

Ladies-in-Waiting Room

The final rooms on the first floor of Peleș Castle are a few of the quarters of the ladies-in-waiting. They’re modest rooms with a bed, desk, and wardrobe. Nearby is a Queen’s Chamber.

Ladies in waiting quarters
Ladies in waiting quarters at Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania
Ladies in waiting quarters
Queen’s Chamber

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