As a continuation of my series I started yesterday with Lunch At The Dracula Daneș Domain, today I'm going to show you the carriage museum at the Dracula Daneș Domain.
As I said yesterday, Dracula Daneș Domain is situated 6km from Sighisoara and 125km from Brasov, in Romania. It's a wonderful tourist attraction that worth visiting, even though you have one night to spend there, or a day.
Apart from the accommodation, good food and nice environment, they are offering riding classes for beginners and advanced level as well. You can also take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage or, during the winter, with a sleigh with bells and as I said earlier, visit the museums that are set up inside the domain.
This road leads to the park, where the equitation center can be found. The entrance for visitors is from the terrace and it's free only for customers. If you had lunch/dinner at the restaurant or you're staying at the guest house, then it's free, otherwise there is a small fee to pay, a little over $1, which is also reasonable.
On the way to the carriage museum, there's this old threshing machine, that threshes grain, that is, it removes the seeds from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. These are farm equipment that you can't see every day, especially interesting to those who grew up in the city and have never seen such things.
This is the carriage used for walking tourists I suppose. It's a modern one I must admit and comfortable as well. It was parked in the middle of one of the courtyards without the horse. At the time of our visit it was raining, there were no tourists wanting to take a ride and let's not forget that the pandemic is playing a big part in this as well. If you take a closer look you can see the seats look pretty comfortable, it's covered with plastic and the wheels
Regardless, the carriage is ready whenever you are ready, the horses were in the equestrian stable, ready to go.
This is the other one you saw on the photo earlier, but not for people but for transporting goods. Back in those times carriages were the only vehicle available for many.
This is the first scene you see when you approach the carriage museum. It's half open as the carriages are under the roof but that's all. This bench is made of wood and old carriage wheels. The Gypsy Traveler sign is a bit odd, I don't know what it refers to. Up until the last century there were and maybe still are gypsy travelers in Romania, nomads in other word. They had carriages like I've shown you earlier and were traveling all the time across the country.
Back then everything, almost every land was state property and not guarded all the time. Now most of the lands are private property as people got back their wrongfully confiscated lands and using those lands are not permitted anymore, without legal consequences.
This is another modern carriage, with only two seats and rubber tires.
And another, and the sign says Buggy Training. I couldn't figure it out if it's just a joke or they do trainings too.
This is a different design, a luxury one back in those times, and covered as well. I believe only nobles could afford these.
At the moment of our visit this was fully covered and most likely for a good reason. Judging from what I saw, it must have been a luxury carriage, a very stylish one.
I believe this is similar to the previous one, but that's just a guess.
This is a good one. My guess is that this is pretty new, made to transport tourists. It doesn't look old and when I say that, I'm talking about the style. I hope I'm not mistaken but this is the carriage style you see throughout Europe. I've seen a similar one last year in Vienna, where they also have carriage tours for tourists.
This is a classic one, you can still see these at the countryside, people are transporting hay, wood, grain and whatever they have with it. It's also used to transport people. Legislation however does not allow these on the road anymore as are very dangerous, especially at night.
This is a replica of Santa's sleigh used during snowy winters. It must be a lot of fun to ride with this, I bet kids love it.
The best thing about this mini museum is that you can find a chariot from every era, that otherwise you only see in movies. I haven't asked as there was no time for that but it seems like most of these are still in use and when the tourist season starts, I bet many will be eager to take a tour with these.
I left this to the end intentionally. Unlike the others, this is a genuine old one, from those times and obviously not in use anymore.
Must have been a classy piece once.
This must be original.
Look at those lamps and the rest and imagine a ride on the road those days :)
Stay tuned as tomorrow I'm going to show you the beautiful horses and the stable, which is also a museum, full of old and interesting things.
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