You drive up out of Bran, past the castle, and the road climbs through Moieciu de Jos, then de Mijloc, then de Sus, the villages getting smaller and the meadows getting steeper. At the last farmhouse with sheep, you turn off onto a forest track for three minutes, and the house appears — low, dark larch, a single luminous window the length of a tennis court.
The 9-metre window. The ridge fills it. In the morning the light comes in horizontally and the larch floor turns honey-coloured. In winter, the storms roll up the valley and you watch them from a couch ten metres long. The sauna is in a separate cabin, a short walk through snow.
- · Wi-Fi (300 Mbps)
- · Sauna cabin
- · Underfloor heating
- · Wine cellar
- · Wood-fired hot tub
- · Designer kitchen
- · Boot room
- · EV charger
Radu trained in Bucharest and Lausanne. He designed Casa Piatra as a winter house for his parents in 2017 — concrete frame, larch cladding, triple glazing, a single 9-metre window facing the Piatra Craiului ridge. After his father passed, the family decided to share it.
A few of the sights within easy reach of this house.
The castle the Dracula myth attached itself to — better visited at 9am than at noon.
A Saxon town centre tucked between forested hills — the Black Church, Council Square, narrow streets.
Europe's largest brown bear sanctuary — 100+ bears rescued from circuses and roadside cages.
A 25-kilometre limestone arête south of Brașov — one of the great ridge walks of Europe.