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The Camelia villa could not have been better built in any other place of the world, as at Sinaia, coquette as it is, with decorative and constructive elements directly inspired from the princely shapes of the castle Peles. The Vila is located on the Spathar Mihail Cantacuzino street (a name connected to another legend, still older than that of the Hohenzollerns’: its wonderful church and monastery, as this was the name of the founder of this outstanding ecclesiastical complex in Sinaia). The villa is located not far from the monastery, and was built in 1884m, by one of the architects who have worked at the Peles castle. The tourists of today can enjoy wonderful, sobre, elegant epoch nuances, well balanced and judiciously gathered, to individualize the building and to confer each room its own personality. Since its exterior sight, the Camelia villa promises to be a oasis of comfort – classical by its „retro” style, so expressive for the cure resorts of the former Romanian kingdom. The inside surprises by its somptuous wooden elements, by the refinement of the richly adorned ceilings, by its stained-glass windows allowing the eye to observe the poetical silhouettes of the trees outside. The scenography of the entrance room is composed by the harmony of glass and wood (mirrors included), continuing with the spectacular opening of the staircase. Chromatically, the volumes assert themselves almost graphically, due to the lines of beams, posts, balusters, arches, in nuances of varying red and daring brown. Coloures and light give each other strength, offering a visual brilliancy typical of the resurrected Romanian Belle époque enriched with elements aiming at offering contemporary exigencies all the required comfort. The show of the staircase goes on under the pacific circle of the iron candelabrum made in the very best Wallachian mediaeval tradition. The warm, homely atmosphere is underlined by the fire place - at the same time useful and decorative. The rooms are clean, comfortable, well furnished in simplicity and good taste, offering all the necessary conditions for leisure and peace. The ambiance of each room was studied in order to render the tourists various emotions. The bathrooms were carefully restored, and provided with all the necessary sanitary items in order to meet any present day exigence of comfort. Modernity is a discrete but firm presence, each room being provided with internet links/telephone – a fact which does not, diminish, however, the antiquated charm of the whole setting.
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