Discover the best top things to do in Northwest Romania, Romania including Wooden Churches of Maramures, Church of the Holy Archangels, Cluj-Napoca City Hall, Rimanoczy Kalman Senior Palace, The Palace of Justice, The Corridor of Canons, Liceul Greco-Catolic Iuliu Maniu, Moon Church (Biserica cu Luna), Wooden church of St. Nicholas, Oradea State Theater (Teatrul de Stat Oradea).
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More or less alike at a first glance - elegant shape, sky-piercing spires,,richly decorated interiors, polychrome murals evoking the most memorable episodes of Christianity, any of the 5 UNESCO-listed wooden churches I visited exudes a unique feeling of simplicity,sobriety and devotion.Apart from elaborately carved wooden doors laden with such typical symbol-motifs as the twisted rope, the tree life, the wolf's tooth or rosettes (notice them on the monumental gates of a peasant's home), each of them is peculiarized by fabulous details. For instance, St Nicholas' Church in Budesti - the chainmail armor and helmet of Pintea the Brave (Pintea, legendary figure of the local historiography and folk literature, was the Robin Hood of Maramures, preceding the latter by nearly 100 years);or the Virgin Mary's Nativity Church in Ieud on the Hill.Built in mid-14th century by a local craftsman, this wooden church is the oldest in Romania and it jumped into public attention a century ago when the oldest writing in the Romanian language notwithstanding its Cyrillic characters(dating back to 1391-1392) was found out in its garret.Known as The Pandect from Ieud, it can be seen in the Library of the Romanian Academy and the Introduction adorns the entrance to the new church erected in the lowland area of the village.
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This is one of the iconic palaces of Oradea. The building is a replica of the Ca d’Oro palace in Venice. Eclectic style with Romanic influences. It was restored this year and I had a fresh new look. More and more palaces from Oradea are being restored lately.
If you are passionate about architecture, you can spend hours admiring the meticulousness with which this palace was created. It is almost impossible to decide which building is more beautiful - Rimanoczy Kalman Sr. Palace or the neighboring building - Miskovits Miksa Palace. Unfortunately, the building is privately owned and I did not have access to the inner courtyard. Congratulations to the local authorities for the effort to renovate such buildings.
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The palace is a pice of Art, newly restored it changes the view around the other buildings
The entire area of Trajan Park is worth a visit. The park itself is beautiful and the buildings around it have a special charm. The Palace of Justice is imposing in the landscape through the imposing main facade, the one from Traian Park. The columns with ionic capitel, the rich animal and vegetable ornamentation in stucco from the windows and the statuary group from the level of the cornice are harmoniously combined, so the building will enchant you with its architecture.
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Near the Roman Catholic Cathedral and Bishop's Palace you can find this interesting architectural work. It was started to build in 1773 in Baroque style and it was finished in 1875. The corridor has got 56 pillars/columns, it's 253ms long and it links 10 buildings. It used to be homes of canons. The 3 famous buildings are in the Baroque quarter of Oradea. It's a must-see sight, don't miss it!
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The building is not following the usual architectural style of the town, being neo-Romanian style (thus names in specialist literature, it is a late variant of the Brancovenesc style).
The building of the Greek-Catholic Theological High School "Iuliu Maniu" is located in the city center, in the vicinity of the Greek-Catholic Cathedral "Saint Nicholas", on Iuliu Maniu Street no. 5. It was built in 1925, in neo-Romanian style and attracts your attention through the hundreds of flowers you see at the windows. I am an admirer of Art-Nouveau buildings (and Oradea has many) but the building of this high school is also charming. The facades were designed in neo-Romanian style, being symmetrical, with alternations of smooth and flat surfaces, provided with balconies. The windows are rectangular and the rear windows are in an arc. The first floor is separated from the ground floor by a belt, and the second floor from the first by an eaves. The windows on the second floor are decorated at the top with ornate rear windows. All the admiration for the administration of this high school!
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This name derives from the mechanism installed in the church tower in 1793. The clock and the moon are the work of George Rueppe, an innovative mechanic from Oradea. The mechanism rotating the moon is designed to make a full rotation on its axis in 28 days, thus indicating the moon phases, depending on the daily cycle marked by the clock mechanism. Inside the Moon Church you can visit a representative museum, with particularly beautiful Orthodox church-related objects.
The rotating moon installed in the church tower in 1793 gives this religious sanctuary its name and reputation. The mechanism is still working, enabling people to admire the diferent phases of the moon from accross the square. The church is also known as the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and it is a Christian-Orthodox church with intricate interiors.
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The State Theater dominates Ferdinand Square with its great façade. The construction, completed in 1900, presents a style apart from most other palaces in Oradea. An art connoisseur may notice neoclassical and neo-Renaissance decorative elements, as well as a Greek temple look of its splendid main entrance, with its peaked frontispiece, supported by Corinthian columns.
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