Mogosoaia Palace

Mogosoaia Palace is situated approximately 10 kilometres from Bucharest, Romania. It become constructed among 1698 to 1702 by means of Constantin Brancoveanu in what's referred to as the Romanian Renaissance fashion or Brancovenesc style. The palace bears the call of the widow of the Romanian boyar Mogos, who owned the land it turned into built on.

After 1714, while Constantin Brancoveanu changed into carried out along with his complete family in Constantinople, all the own family's wealth changed into confiscated by the Ottomans and the palace turned into converted into an resort. Rebought with the aid of Prince Stefan Cantacuzino, he lower back it to Brancoveanu's grandson Constantin, and remained with the own family until the early 19th century. The palace was devastated by means of the Ottomans in the course of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 to 1774. Granted by using prince Grigore to his daughter, Zoe Mavrocordat who had married George D. Bibescu, sovereign Prince of Wallachia. The palace remained inside Bibescu circle of relatives and changed into renovated by way of Nicolae Bibescu.