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The Calendar Castle
The castle in Zau de Câmpie, Mureș was built according to the principles of a calendar. It has 365 windows, the number of days in a year, 4 towers, the same as the number of seasons, 52 rooms, the number of weeks, 7 terraces, the number of days in a week, and 12 halls, the number of months ofthe year.Thecastlestands underthe sign of an unfulfilled love story between the owner and a Russian princess. In 1911, the construction of the holiday residence of Baron István Ugron(hu) began, an architecture faithful to French medieval castles.
The castle was, in turn, a sanatorium for TB patients, a school and a grain warehouse, and in recent years a children's home.
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Geometrical remarks on the windows above the entrance
Let the center circle be O and the radius R. If the 4 circles are congruent and tangent two by two and the fifth circle has a radius equal to the distance from the center of the large circle to the point of contact, let's find out what r is.
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OBS: If a stained glass window can in reality be 1.5m high, we can find out, approximately,thescaleatwhichthepictureistaken.
Growing with Applied Mathematics Experiences (G.A.M.E.)
Geometry in my country
Jean Monnet High School
CARLOS-ANDRES SANZ-ENE (student)
