Ugron castle - Zau de Câmpie

The castle was built between 1908 and 1912, at the initiative of Baron István Ugron, Minister of Austria and Hungary and Ambassador to the Russian Empire. It is one of the last castles built in the historicism style in Transylvania, in which the architects combined various historical forms (in this case the Neo-Gothic and Neo-Romanesque ones). The building evokes a mediaeval French castle with a two-storey façade, bastion-like towers and a sculpted and ornate main entrance. The castle in Zau de Câmpie was built according to the principles of a calendar. It has 365 windows -  the same as the number of days in a year, 4 towers - the same as the number of seasons, 52 rooms - the same as the number of weeks in a year, 7 terraces - the same as the number of days in a week and 12 corridors, the same as the number of months in a  year. In 1925 István Ugron ceded the castle to his nephew, Baron István Bánffy and his wife, Countess Emma Mikes of Zabola, reserving only a few rooms for himself. After the nationalisation, the castle offered space to many institutions, currently it is owned by the Mureș County Council and can only be admired from the outside!