Corvin Castle ( Hunedoara Castle )

Corvin Castle is can be found in Hunedoara Transylvania Romania.

It is located in southwestern Transylvania near the Poiana Ruscă Mountains and administered five villages Bos, Gros , Hasdat , Pestisu Mare and Racastia. Corvin Castle was laid out 1446 by the orders of John Hunyadi  ( Iancu or Ioan de Hunedoara ). It was given to john Hunyadi's father by SIgismund king of Hungary as severance in 1409. Tourists are told that it was the place where Vlad III of Wallachia was held prisoner by John Hunyadi. In the castle yard , near the 15th century chapel, there is well 30 meters deep. Based on the history , it was dug by the Turkish prisoners to whom freedom were promised if they reached water.