Tourist guide Timișoara

1. Tourist Info Center

The Tourist Info Center used to be on Alba Iulia Street, next to the National Theatre in Timișoara, but on my last visit it was closed and an arrow on the sign said that it had moved 200 meters towards Libertății Square.

2. Metropolitan Orthodox Cathedral

The address is Bd. Regele Ferdinand I nr. 1

On the opposite side of Victory Square is the gorgeous Metropolitan Orthodox Cathedral. 83 meters high, it was built in the 40s of the last century in Byzantine and Moldavian style. A special optical effect is given by the 11 towers covered with colorful glazed tiles. It is dedicated to St. Three Hierarchs.

3. Victory Square

We are in the city center, in Victory Square. It has an elongated rectangular shape, is a pedestrian area with green space in the middle and is flanked on the small sides by well-known landmarks: the Palace of Culture and the Orthodox Cathedral. On the large sides are several old buildings, mostly restored. In the middle of the square is Capitoline Wolf Statue built on a stone column, as well as a fountain and benches.

In Victory Square, on December 20, 1989, Timisoara declared itself the first communist-free city in Romania.

4. Huniade Castle

The address is 1 Iancu Huniade Square.

Nearby is another imposing building: Huniade Castle, with one story and a very large footprint, with many tall arched windows framed in the brick structure. It has its present form from 1856, the year marked above the main entrance. It was the first castle in Timișoara, residence of the Hungarian king Carl Robert of Anjou. The name Huniade derives from Iancu de Hunedoara, the Comrade of Timiș, who also lived in this building.

Today it hosts Banat Museum.

5. Palace of Culture

The address is 2 Mărășești Street.

Palace of Culture was built at the end of the 19th century by Fellner & Helmer, the most famous theater architecture firm of the time. The 600-seat auditorium is decorated in neo-Byzantine style, the side facades in eclectic style, and the arcades (triumphal arch) on the main facade were added in the interwar period.

The Palace of Cultures hosts Romanian Opera and the 3 national state theaters: Romanian, Hungarian and German.

In the year 2023, in the pedestrian area, which is part of the Victoriei Square, in front of the Romanian Opera, I saw a tall metal construction installed, very visited, where there are Hanging Gardens.

6. Liberty Square

North of Victoriei Square, not many steps further on, we arrive in Liberty Square, a roughly square-shaped square, paved with cubic stone, with no access for cars, only trams on one side,

In the middle of the square stands a tall monument on a pedestal: Monument of St. John Nepomuk. It was built in Vienna in the 18th century.

On one side of the market is Bust of Decebal, with its unmistakable face, also raised on a pedestal.

7. Union Square

And further to the north, seemingly linked to each other, we have a third important market of Timișoara: Union Squarewhere the baroque style is at home.

Here we find the Roman-Catholic Cathedral, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, the Baroque Palace and the Monument of St. Trinity. It is a square square with several benches, a fountain and several terraces.

In the middle of the market stand out Holy Trinity Monument. Also known as the Plague Column, it marks the eradication of the great epidemic of the 18th century. The monument was built in Vienna. The columns depict scenes of plague, famine and war.

We're exploring the market side by side. We head first to Palace of the Serbian Orthodox EpiscopateThe palace was built in the 18th century and was the residence of the Orthodox bishop. When the Serbian and Romanian Orthodox seceded, the palace remained with the Serbian community.

Behind the populated terraces we admire other beautiful buildings in baroque style.

Baroque Palace is on the other side of the same square and has been in existence since the 18th century. It was inhabited by the governor of Banat. In the 19th century Franz Liszt performed here in the Baroque hall. Today you can visit the Palace Art Museum.

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce in all its splendor another symbol of Union Square: Roman Catholic Dome. It was being renovated.

8. Theresia Bastion

The address is 4 Martin Luther Street.

Which way? Still north northeast. The little road takes us into a roundabout dominated by a large, round fountain known as the Cardinal Points.

To its east (right) is Theresia Bastion. After the first fortress was destroyed, the second fortress in the history of the city was built on this site, in the Vauban style with three rings of fortifications, 20 meters high inside and three gates: the Vienna Gate, the Transylvanian Gate and the Petrovaradin Gate. Today, only the Theresia Bastion, which used to house the foodstuffs, remains.

The Citadel is also home to Synagogue.

9. Banat Village Museum

The address is 1 Avram Imbroane Street, 6 km NNE of Victoriei Square.

Banat Village Museum presents traditional Banat houses of different ethnic groups living in the area. In the museum the village civic center is presented: the town hall, the school and church, the birtul and the National House. The museum also houses a wooden church from the 18th century.

10. Bega navigable canal

The Timisoara periplor can include a walk in the parks by pedes or by bike or by boat Vaporetto on the navigable Bega canal. The Bega has been navigable since the 18th century after the reclamation of the marshes in the area, and in 1732 the first ship traveled on the Bega from Timișoara to Pancevo via the Tisa and Danube. The navigable canal is 116 km long.