At the request of Queen Marie, the Tea House was created by transforming an existing wooden barn into a space dedicated to evening gatherings in the castle park, as part of the redesign of the Bran estate carried out by Czech architect Karel Liman between 1920 and 1929. A funicular was even built to ease communication between Bran Castle and the Tea House, used to transport food and beverages. Seized during the communist era and long left in abandonment, the building was subsequently restored as a listed historic monument. The restoration carefully preserved its defining architectural features — the exterior blockbau-style timber logs characteristic of the Bran region, the original joinery, and the traditional shingle roof — while a discreetly integrated new volume was added to the rear to accommodate a kitchen, leaving the landscape and the historic silhouette of the building entirely unaltered. Today, the Tea House once again welcomes guests in the very setting where Romania’s crowned heads once gathered over a century ago.
