Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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5.8 km
81 m
Explore Cluj-Napoca in Romania with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in Cluj-NapocaIndividual Sights in Cluj-NapocaSight 1: Calvaria Church
Calvaria Church was built in the small village of Mănăștur near Cluj-Napoca. A small Benedictine abbey surrounded by defensive walls, Calvaria Church was built starting in the 9th-10th centuries.
Sight 2: 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.
Sight 3: Parcul Central Simion Bărnuțiu
Central Park is a large public, urban park in central Cluj-Napoca. It was founded in the 19th century and it located on the southern shore of Someşul Mic River. The Park is now home to the University of Arts and Design and to the Chemistry Faculty of the Babeş-Bolyai University.
Sight 4: 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.
Sight 5: 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
Sight 6: Sfânta Maria Protectoare
The statue of the Virgin Mary is a monument from the typology of plague columns, built in Cluj in 1744, the work of the Austrian sculptor Anton Schuchbauer.
Sight 7: 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).
Sight 8: 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.
Sight 9: Baba Novac
The statue of Baba Novac in Cluj-Napoca, the work of sculptor Virgil Fulicea, was erected near the Tailors' Bastion in 1975, in memory of Baba Novac. general of Michael the Brave.
Sight 10: 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.
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