Ciucea is famous for the Octavian Goga Memorial Museum, which is set in a beautiful castle. Between 1915-1917 the Hungarian poet Ady and his wife Csinszka (Boncza Berta) stayed in the castle of the Boncza family in Ciucea. After the death of his father, Ady's wife became the owner of the building. After the death of Ady Csinszka did not want to return to the castle from Ciucea, in memory of friendship of the two great poets offered for purchase Goga family. The Goga family accepted the offer and undertook the renovation of the buildings, and the castle was rebuilt.
According to Goga's wish (1881-1938), after his death was buried here in the garden. The mausoleum where were buried Goga and his wife Venturia was built after 20 years from his death.
Goga Venturia in 1966 donated the whole property from Ciucea to this Romanian village with the condition to be established an Octavian Goga memorial museum in it. So in 19867 at Ciucea was opened the Octavian Goga memorial museum where a rural house, a hall and a mausoleum is waiting the visitors with a reach collection of old furniture, books, paintings, ethnographic show-pieces, halls dedicated to the activity of the great poet Goga and a room of the great poet Ady in memory of the 2 year spent in Ciucea.
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Goga castle in Ciucea

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Bologa Fortress still preserves the greatness of a strategic fortress built over 700 years ago, which had the role of supervising the road that leads to Oradea along the Crisului Repede Valley. It was most likely built at the end of the 13th century, across the river from the ancient ruins of a Roman camp (Resculum Camp).
With a height of over 13 meters, the tower was arranged on four levels, separated by floors of thick wooden beams. Access to the tower was by an escalator from the outside. The second tower, located on the opposite side of the circular keep, has a quadrilateral base and appears to have been intended for a gate. In the 16th and 17th centuries, two more semicircular towers appeared, used for firearms of all calibers.
Strategic importance
In 1399 the fortress was donated by King Sigismund of Luxembourg to Mircea the Elder to the ruler of Wallachia together with the Bran Fortress, after the signing of the treaty of alliance against the Ottoman Empire.
The importance of the fortress increased in the 17th century, after the conquest of Oradea by the Turks, when the garrison of the Bologa fortress stopped the penetration of the Turkish army through the Crişul Repede gorge. At the beginning of the 18th century, during the war of liberation led by the prince of Transylvania, Francisc Rakoczi II against the Habsburg domination of Hungary, the fortress was blown up by the Lobonts, so as not to fall into the hands of the curuts, supporters of the movement. release. The tower and much of the walls still stand. In the middle of the 20th century, the tower lost its roof, probably the last wooden element of the ruins. All that is left is the stone and they were sources of inspiration for several legends, the one you know of them says that, among the ruins of the medieval fortification.
Roman camp Resculum
Near the fortress on the opposite bank of the river Henț is the Roman camp, called Resculum, which is the oldest settlement in the area. Built around 106 AD to defend the border of the Roman Empire. As the Romans tried to consolidate their borders, Greek settlers (believed to be from the Patras area) and British infantry and cavalry troops, "Cohors I Ulpia Britonum", were brought here in the 2nd century. All this is attested by the tiles and bricks discovered in the area, which bear the stamp with the abbreviations of these troops. The ruins of the camp are still visible today, in the place called "Gradiste", although a large part of the area was used as agricultural land. Near the camp there are also the ruins of some Roman baths.
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Bologa Fortress

The construction of the castle was commissioned by Zichy Domokos, bishop of Roznyó (Rožňava in Slovakian), later of Veszprém, and was finished in 1860. This was after he was struck by the grief of losing his brother Ödön (1809-1848), who was executed for treason. After the circumstances of the political scene forced him to renounce his position, he moved to Transylvania. He died in 1879. The castle has remained in good conditions to this day. 
The castle was transformed into a hunting lodge in 1904 by Zichy Ödön (1874-1967), who was the grandson of Domokos’s other younger brother, Zichy Edmund (1811-1894), one of the founders of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1907, Ödön married Bethlen Gabriella, a descendant of Bethlen Farkas, chancellor of Transylvania. After WWI, they are forced to sell the estate in 1918. The new owner was the Wallachian boyar Gheorghe Mateescu, an investor in petrol extraction, who became popular among the villagers quite quickly. He constructed a school, gave land for the construction of a church, and even made sure that there were always gifts under the village’s common christmas tree. It is thanks to his efforts that the castle’s interiors remained in good condition. It’s original furniture and Great Hall remained until 1947. One of Mateescu’s sons died of leukemia, the other died shortly after returning home from imprisonment in Siberia. Mateescu himself died in 1952. After the castle’s nationalization, the building was emptied, the furniture looted, and in 1950 it became a preventorium that functioned until 2006. The family’s emblem can still be seen on the exterior walls.
An ornate multi-storey tower can be seen on the right side of the castle.  The year 1904 is inscripted above the entrance to the tower’s spiral staircase. The castle is surrounded by a beautiful park. The boyar’s fortune was inherited by his second wife, who, in turn, left the huge fortune to her nephew. But the estate is contested among the boyar’s family. In 2012 it was still not decided who inherits how much.
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