The ruined castle stands on the elevation of the river-flat. Its four corners are fortified by polygonal towers with arrow slits. The walls of the castle stand tall, but the roofing and interior walls have completely collapsed. The central building was once surrounded by a quadratic exterior wall at thirty meters distance. This wall was fortified by four diamond-shaped corner towers with arrow slits. These exterior walls have since disappeared and only the ruins of the two southern corner towers remain.
We may learn about Lajos Bethlen's castle and its garden only from contemporary descriptions and drawings, because due to a series of destructions only the crypt, which used to be part of the garden can still be seen.
Bethlen Márk, the son of Bethlen Miklós settled down the reinassance castle’s ground in the 15th cetury. The castle was built around a square court. Its round crenelated tower was once decorated with raised guardians.
The two-storey building has embrasures on the ground floor and renaissance windows on the first floor. It is thus very representative of 16th century aristocratic residencies, as it has essential defensive installations as well as selective and comfortable living conditions. The wide windows, the well-heated rooms with tile stoves, and the renaissance paintings on the walls were all signs of the aristocratic family’s wealth.
During the fifty years of communism, the building was used as a kindergarten, a jail, a restaurant and a sparkling wine manufactory. The wonderful frescos and stucco ornaments have all disappeared during this time.
The castle was built by the order of Count Bethlen Pál (1851–1935), the son of Bethlen Pál (1798–1859) and Countess Bethlen Mária (1827–1876).
The castle has a U-shaped layout, two floors, and a main facade facing the street. An accentuated string-course separates the two floors, the windows are framed: the ones on the ground floor are jack arched and cantilevered, and have eyebrow lintels with segmented arches and keystones, while the ones on the upper floor are jack arched, have cantilevered window sills and decorated jack arched lintels.
The old castle of Cetatea de Baltă was near the village in a swamped meadow which is the reason why the castle was called in Romanian "The Swamp Castle”. The ruins of the castle destroyed by the Mongol invasion were first mentioned in 1321.
A few hundred meters from the village's protestant church, on a small patch of land rising above the confluence of the Mureș and Pianu creeks, stand the ruins of the renaissance Martinuzzi Castle. In its place once stood a monastery established in the 14th century by the Dominican Order.
Remaining empty, the Biális Manor became the property of the locality and possibly by satisfying the heirs, it became the Village Hall. During the two World Wars it housed the military locker rooms. Today, the building functions as a post office and the institution of the common ownership. The local government plans to renovate the building.
The castle, once belonging to the principate, was constructed between 1569 and 1572 under the orders of Bocskai György and his son, Bocskai István.
Because of its ruined state, the local government of Bardoc (Brăduţ) purchased the manor from the nine inheritors with its own funds. The goal is to restore the building for touristic purposes.
Bohuș castle was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The building is structured into 30 premises. The principal parts of the building are the balcony and the façade, which is adorned with Doric columns.
The building was constructed from stone and brick; it is covered with tiles forming a hip roof, and it has a small basement.
The construction of the castle was commissioned by the writer, Ady Endre’s father-in-law, Boncza Miklós, as a gift to the mother of Csinszka (otherwise known as Boncza Berta, Ady’s wife). Today's castle no longer resembles the single-floor structure with corner bastions of that time.
The previous version of today’s castle was originally built as a hunting lodge in late renaissance style by Rákoczi György I. In 1662 it even hosted the Transylvanian Congress. It was later deserted for several decades. The castle’s new owner, Bornemissza Gergely, made use of the already laid stones, and rebuilt the castle in baroque style between 1718 and 1734.
