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Bucovinian Village Museum
Within the City of Residence Citadel, this small museum displays relocated Bucovina traditional homes, with their original furnishings, accessories and appliances.
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Memorial to Victims of the 1989 Revolution
On Piaţa Unirii, just past the Romanian Orthodox Greco-Catholic Cathedral , is a memorial made of five connected wooden crosses in tribute to the eight locals killed here.
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Vama Bran Museum
The Vama Bran Museum, down the hill behind Bran Castle, has original items found in the castle – plates, furniture and various sundries – displayed in nine rooms.
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Cişmigiu Garden
West of Calea Victoriei is the locally loved Cişmigiu Garden, with shady walks, a lake, cafes and a ridiculous number of benches on which to sit and stare at Bucharestians going by.
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Martyr
Going west from the southern end of Carol I Park (near metro Eroii Revoluţiei), the road curves past this cemetery, where many of the 1000 victims of the 1989 revolution are buried.
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Roman Catholic Church
Across the street from the Orthodox Cathedral is this airier, baroque-style church, which dates from 1728.
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Ion Jalea Sculpture Museum
This small museum, just at the entryway to the seaside promenade, features the works of Ion Jalea, a 20th-century sculptor often said to be a forefather of modern technique.
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St Dumitrus Church
This impressive post-Byzantine church (1535) was built by Petru Rareş. Traces of original exterior frescoes are visible and the impressive interior frescoes are largely restored.
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Railway Museum
The so-called Railway Museum is an open-air collection of a couple of dozen old trains right off the tracks. South of the train station; it’s across the tracks, 300m south.
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County Museum
The open courtyard of the half-closed County Museum has a wooden church in its central garden. The museum’s collection of minerals and stuffed animals is hardly worth a look though.
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Memorial Cross
A black memorial cross, a couple of blocks north of Piaţa Universităţii, marks the spot where the first protestor in the 1989 Revolution, Mihai Gătlan, died at 17:30 on 21 December 1989.
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Banat Village Museum
The open-air display was created in 1917 and exhibits more than 30 traditional peasant houses dating from the 19th century. Take tram 1 (black number) from the northern train station.
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Statue of Vlad Ţepeş
Hidden away behind the the Church of the Dominican Monastery is a Statue of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula), showing the legend with a bewildered look and his trademark circa-1981 porno moustache.
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statue of Mihai Eminescu
A peaceful promenade meanders along the waterfront, offering sweeping views of the Black Sea. Behind the lighthouse, a tragically poised statue of Mihai Eminescu looks out to the sea.
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Synagogue of Deportees
This grand Moorish-style building is just one of three remaining synagogues in Cluj-Napoca. This was built in 1987 in memory of the 16,700 Jews deported to Auschwitz from Cluj-Napoca in 1944.
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Teleki House
Towards Piaţa Trandafirilor, on Piaţa Bernády György, is the yellow-painted, baroque Teleki House (built 1797–1803). Joseph Teleki served as governor of Transylvania between 1842 and 1848.
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Serbian Orthodox Church
Fronting Piaţa Unirii, the Serbian Orthodox Church was built at approximately the same time as its Catholic counterpart across the square. Local Banat artist Constantin Daniel painted the interior.
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Museum of Old Moldavian Literature
This literary museum stands inside the 17th-century Dosoftei House . Dosoftei was Moldavias metropolitan ruler between 1670 and 1686, and printed the first Romanian-language church liturgy in 1679.
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Princely Church
The unusual St George’s Church (Biserica Sfântul Gheorghe), more commonly known as the Princely Church, was built by Prince Constantin Şerban and his wife Princess Bălasa between 1654 and 1658.
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Tőkés Reformed Church
The 1989 revolution began at the Tőkés Reformed Church, where Father Lászlo Tőkés spoke out against Ceauşescu. You can sometimes peek in at the church, but the small apartment is private property.
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