captured in a photograph with the sun behind it, illuminating and hiding it from view at the same time, the nagy mansion seems to have the power to transport its guest back to the 19th century, just as gil, played by owen wilson, returned to the 1920s in the film midnight in paris, directed by woody allen in 2011. the idea of traveling back in time is often used in the description of properties and therefore subject to demonetization; in the case of the nagy mansion, it stands in certain rooms where the past comes to life through a special stove, through pieces of solid wood furniture carefully crafted and polished by time such as the two sumptuous original saxon beds. the mansion, built in 1802 by the hungarian noble family nagy, today completely renovated and brought up to modern living standards, preserves original architectural details, despite its troubled history - in 1992, when the property was reacquired, it no longer had doors or windows; after the nationalization in 1949 it was used by the local ias including to house day laborers.
the story goes that szotyori nagy tamásné, mistress of the manor in the middle of the 19th century, was a fearless woman who not only went to the front to look for her hero son, but offered shelter to the persecuted and, after the revolution was crushed, sent parcels to those incarcerated. in 1884, during the election campaign, in the building that later became a granary, the owner of the place hosted the well-known writer jókai mór.
today, the entrance through the wide gate shows a circle of flowers whose role, in addition to the decorative one, is to guide today′s horse-drawn carriages to the entrance of the building. with a decent exterior and a small portico the mansion consists of a spacious ground floor and a generous attic dominated by the protective red roof over them; the two windows placed above the entrance, on the left and right are known as the queen′s eyes, belonging to the most desirable room in the building.
the mansion functions today as a guesthouse and has 3 rooms with matrimonial beds and 4 double rooms, all with their own bathroom. the dining room can accommodate 70 people and the old cellar is now a wine cellar, keeping visible both parts of the original foundation wall and the old roof tiles reused as flooring. the sauna, the salt room and other ways to spend quality time complete the generous offer of the outside – walks through the silence of wheat fields and potato crops or visiting the balvanyos baths, the cheile varghisului nature reserve, the birch forest in reci, the kalnoky cast le and the zabola domain (covasna being also known as the land of manors). the town of coșeni is 13km from prejmer, 19km from harman and 28km from the center of brașov.
photo florin pepene
