Co warto zobaczyć w Cluj-Napoca

A 2 minute walk from the Union Square, is home to the Franciscan Monastery (a combination of Baroque and Gothic architecture dating back to the 14th Century), the Transylvanian History Museum and the old Obelisk of the City, offered to the city as acknowledgement of its statute by the Austrian Emperor Franz Ferdinand in the 19th Century.…

The Transylvania Hotel (also known to the locals as Belvedere) was built on top of the hill, and besides the great view offers a good restaurant as well. The hill can be climbed by stairs from the centre of the city. On the way you will also find a large iron cross monument.…

In the basement of what is probably the ugliest church in Cluj (it was built in 1984, during the very strict communist regime, so the church had to look like a communist apartment building), Galeria Horeb opened in 2009. It has around two exhibitions per year.

It spreads over 14 hectares and contains among others a small Japanese garden, greenhouses for ecuatorial and tropical plants, a small water course through its middle, and a tower which can be climbed to get a better view of the garden arrangements.

A welcome break from the rush of the city. The middle of the park hosts a small lake and the Chios Casino, from the terrace of which you can rent rowboats and hydrobicycles to circle the small island in the centre of the lake.

Used to hold a stronghold, as its name implies. People were also jailed there. Not much of the old fortress remains, but The Fortress Hill is worth climbing, for the view.

This Gothic architecture piece is one of the most valuable in Transylvania. Its murals date from the 15th century, and the 50m neogothic tower was built in 1860.

Where you can find St. Michael's Church, the National Art Museum, the Statue of Matthias Corvinus and the roman ruins.

A small Benedictine abbey surrounded by defensive walls, Calvaria Church was built starting in the 9th-10th centuries.

It is the first Greek-Catholic church that was built in the city of Cluj, while it was part of the Austrian Empire.

Old paintbrush factory. Now the building is filled with art galleries and artists' studios.

The statue is always climbed by tourists, although officially this practise is not allowed.

Located in the Central Park, built at the end of the 19th century, restored in 2012.

It is very well preserved, alongside with the corresponding section of the medieval wall

Is linking the two main squares - Union Square and Avram Iancu Square.

Was the first pharmacy in Cluj. Currently houses the Pharmaceutical museum.

Built between 1774 and 1775, currently houses the National Art Museum

Built between 1486-1516, is a very important piece of gothic architecture.

Completed in 1724, it was the province's first baroque church.

Designed by the famous architect Kós Károly.

Built between 1260 and 1290