17 Sights in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 17 sights are available in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Sightseeing Tours in Cluj-NapocaActivities in Cluj-Napoca1. Piarist Church
The Church of Pianiștilor, initially known as the Church of the Jesuits in Cluj, respectively as the University Church, located on the University Street no. 5, with the dedication "Holy Trinity", is the first Catholic church built in Transylvania after the Protestant Reform, at the same time the first ecclesiastical edifice in the baroque style in the former Hapsburg province. The church constituted an architectural ensemble with the Jesuit Academic College, on which is today the central building of the "Babeș-Bolyai" University. The place of worship presents a strong contrast between a monumental and sober architecture on the outside, and a well -ornate, almost exuberant interior, a jewel of the baroque style. In front of the church was, until 1959, the statue of the Virgin Mary, a monument moved by the communist authorities behind the "St. Peter" Church in Cluj.
Wikipedia: Biserica Piariștilor din Cluj (RO), Website, Url Miserend
2. Palatul Berde
The Capricorn Palace in Cluj-Napoca was built in 1896-97 on the northwestern corner of the Szamos Bridge, at the former Nagy Street 1. It was built by widow Józsefné Oriold, née Anna Szigeti in 1896, and after she became the wife of Lajos B. Bak, the tenement house completed in 1897 was referred to as the Capricorn Palace, although it was always in his wife's name. After Lajos Bak's death in 1907, his widow married Joseph I Irsay. For this reason, the tenement house was also called Oriold's and Irsay's Palaces. The names Berde and Benigni Palace as listed in the Romanian National Register of Monuments under serial number CJ-II-m-B-07346 are completely incorrect. The Benigni Palace is the tenement building opposite at 2 Nagy Street, built in 1891, the first of the four palaces around the Szamos Bridge.
3. Wooden church from Petrindu
The wooden church of Petrindu in the homonymous locality in Sălaj County can be found today in the "Romulus Vuia" National Ethnographic Park in Cluj-Napoca. The ecclesial construction is representative of the serf wooden churches in northern Transylvania built during the 18th century. Inside it is preserved a valuable mural painting from 1835, signed by Dimitrie Ispas from Gilău, one of the most famous painters from Transylvania. The church is on the new list of historical monuments under LMI code: CJ-II-a-B-07461, which includes the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca as a whole.
4. Biserica Reformată de pe Ulița Lupilor
The Reformed Church on Wolves Street in Cluj-Napoca in the immediate vicinity of the Tailors' Bastion is one of the most valuable Gothic edifices in Transylvania, being built between 1486-1516. The church is also known as the Central Reformed Church or the Reformed Church on Wolf Street. The name of Ulița Lupilor, one of the oldest streets of Cluj, is mentioned in medieval documents as Platea Luporum. After the Union of Transylvania with Romania, the name of Ulița Lupilor was changed to "Mihail Kogălniceanu Street", which has remained the official name of the street until now.
5. Wooden church from Chiraleș
The wooden church in Chiraleș is an old Greek-Catholic church at the origin, which has been in 1963, when it was restored, in the "Romulus Vuia" National Ethnographic Park in Cluj-Napoca. From an architectural point of view, the church presents technical, formal and decorative qualities that recommend it as one of the most representative of the wooden places in Transylvania remaining in the 17th century. The church is on the new list of historical monuments under the LMI code: CJ-II A-B-07461, which includes the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania as a whole.
6. Central Cemetery
The Hajongard Cemetery on the former Butchers' Street, currently Avram Iancu Street, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Cluj-Napoca, established in the sixteenth century with the small cemetery that functioned around St. Michael's Church in the city center. It is one of the most interesting tourist attractions of the city, being classified as a historical monument in the list of historical monuments in 2015, with the code CJ-IV-s-B-07839. It covers an area of approx. 14 hectares.
7. Evangelical-Lutheran Church
The Evangelical-Lutheran Synodo-Presbyterian Church of Cluj-Napoca is a place of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania. The building is located in Cluj, Bulevardul 21 decembrie 1989, nr. 1, and was built between 1816-1829, according to the plans of architects Georg Winkler and Christian Kiermeyer. The construction harmoniously combines elements of baroque with neoclassical style. In its walls were embedded stones from the so-called Round Bastion.
8. Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden
The Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden, officially Alexandru Borza Cluj-Napoca University Botanic Garden, is a botanical garden located in the south part of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded in 1872 by Hungarian linguist Sámuel Brassai, known as the "Last Transylvanian Polymath". Its director in 1905 was Aladár Richter, then Páter Béla, Győrffy István, and then, in 1920, it was taken over by the local university and by Alexandru Borza.
9. Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania
The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania is situated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With a history of almost 100 years, the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania is one of the first and greatest of its kind in Romania. It has two exhibition sections, one of which is to be found in downtown Reduta Palace, while the other exhibition section is the open-air Romulus Vuia Park situated on the city's north-west side, in Hoia Forest.
Wikipedia: Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (EN), Website
10. Biserica cu Cocoș
The Reformed Church with Cocos is a historical and architectural monument, opera of architect Károly Kós. The edifice was built in the 1913-1914 style of the Viennese Secession. It is located on the street of Motii No. 84 in Cluj-Napoca municipality. The southern tower of the church is decorated at the top with a cock, from which the name of the building comes.
11. Wooden church from Cizer
The wooden church in Cizer dates back to 1773 and has been preserved since 1968 in the "Romulus Vuia" National Ethnographic Park in Cluj-Napoca. From an architectural point of view, the church has technical, formal and decorative qualities due to which it is considered one of the most representative of the wooden places in Transylvania.
12. Dormition of the Theotokos Orthodox Cathedral
The Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral is the most famous Romanian Orthodox church of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Built in a Romanian Brâncovenesc style, a synthesis of Renaissance and Byzantine architecture, it lies on the Avram Iancu Square, together with the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre and the Avram Iancu Statue.
Wikipedia: Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral, Cluj-Napoca (EN)
13. Resurrection Church (Bob Church)
The Bob church is the first Greek-Catholic church that was built in 1803 in the city of Cluj, Transylvania, at that time part of the Austrian Empire. The name of the church comes from the Romanian noble Ioan Bob, later bishop of the Romanian Greek-Catholic church, who paid for the construction of the church.
14. Transfiguration Greek-Catholic Cathedral
The Transfiguration Cathedral is a historical and architectural monument in Cluj-Napoca. The edifice was built between 1775-1779 in baroque style. Since 1924 it has served as the cathedral of the Greek-Catholic Diocese of Cluj-Gherla. The church is located on the current Eroilor Boulevard, at nr. 10.
15. Statue of Saint George
The Statue of Saint George in Cluj is a historical monument, a copy of the Statue of Saint George in Prague, the original made by Cluj craftsmen Martin and Gheorghe at the end of the Middle Ages. The copy was made in 1904 by sculptor József Róna, the pedestal being made by Kálmán Lux (1880-1961).
16. Saint Peter
Saint Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church located on 21 December 1989 Blvd. 85, from Cluj-Napoca. The church was built in its current form in neo-Gothic style in the mid-nineteenth century, on the foundation of an older church dating from the fifteenth century.
Wikipedia: Biserica Sfântul Petru din Cluj-Napoca (RO), Url Miserend
17. Biserica Reformată-Calvină din Orașul de Jos
The Calvinist-Reformed Church in the Lower Town, also called the Reformed Church with 2 towers, located on Bd. 21 December 1989 nr. 41, is one of the symbolic buildings of Cluj-Napoca, being classified as a historical monument, with code LMI CJ-II-m-B-07264.
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