Sturdza Castle from Miclăușeni, one of the most beautiful buildings in Iași (Romania).

Sturdza Castle in Miclăușeni, also known as Sturdza Palace, is a neo-Gothic style structure built between 1880 and 1904 by Gheorghe Sturdza and his wife Maria. Iași. Today, Sturdza Castle is owned by the Metropolitan Church of Moldova and Bucovina, being included on the List of Historical Monuments in Iași County since 2015, as part of the Miclăușeni Monastery ensemble.Sturdza Castle in Miclăușeni, one of the most beautiful buildings in Iași County, is composed of three monuments: the Church “St. Voievozi ”(dating from 1787), the castle (dating from the 17th century, being rebuilt in 1752 and the 19th century), and the park (dating from the 19th century). The neo-Gothic castle was completed in 1904.The name Miclăușeni comes from the name of a boyar, Miclăuș, who received from Alexandru cel Bun, the lord of Moldavia between 1400 and 1432, an estate in this place. In 1591, the descendants of the boyar Miclăuș sold the estate to the treasurer Simion Stroici. At the beginning of the 17th century, Stroici built a mansion here, the ruins of which can still be seen at the beginning of the 20th century.The mansion was inherited by the Sturdza brothers in the 17th century. Later, they divided the fortune, the mansion becoming the property of Ioan Sturdza. He decided to rebuild it, but the castle itself was built later, between the…