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Franz Binder Museum of World Ethnology
Named for a 19th-century collector from Sibiu, the great Franz Binder Museum of World Ethnology has an unexpectedly rich collection of North and Central African pieces (including a 2000-year-old mummy).
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Domniţelor Church
Dedicated to St John the Baptist, this church was built by Vasile Lupu between 1632 and 1653. Its dedication inscription, from 1643, is in Old Church Slavonic. Some frescoes come from an 1884 painting upgrade.
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Art Collection Museum
This grab-bag of several dozen private collections is particularly strong on folk and religious art and Romanian painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its now part of the National Art Museum.
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Geamia Hunchiar Mosque
The citys second most important mosque was built in 1868 in Moorish style. Though its not often open, if you get a chance, look inside to see an interior that remains little changed from the original design.
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Cetatea Arad
Arad’s star-shaped fortress was built on orders of the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa between 1763 and 1783. It stands on the site of an old fortress built in 1551 by the Turks. Today it houses a military base.
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Central Market
The central market is surrounded by the only remaining part of the 15th-century city walls and is beneath the Butchers’ Tower , now fully restored, where famous brigand Grigore Pintea Viteazul was shot in 1703.
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Trinity Column
The Trinity Column, in the squares centre, was erected by the people of Timişoara at the end of the 18th century in thanks to God for allowing them to survive the plague that hit the town between 1738 and 1739.
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Museum of History and Archaeology
Well-executed displays on the Cucutenians, a neolithic culture with advanced pottery skills that lived in the area between 5500 BC and 2750 BC. A book on the Cucuteni, partly in English, is available (30 lei).
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Evangelical Church
At a staggering 76.5m, Bistriţas 14th-century, Gothic-style church dominates Piaţa Centrală. And though its closed for restoration, you can still travel up the elevator in the tower for amazing views (8 lei).
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Museum of Romanian Police
Romanias only Museum of Romanian Police , has a number of exhibitions from the 19th and 20th centuries, including an overfilled cloakroom-style display of uniforms, verily inviting one to don and model the inventory.
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First Romanian School Museum
This building packs a staggering amount of antique books, including the first Russian bible and 15th-century school books that admonish against theft in no uncertain terms: He who will steal this book shall be cursed!.
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Theodor Pallady Museum
The Theodor Pallady Museum is housed inside the exquisite early-18th-century Casa Melik, a former merchants house. It contains the private art collection of the Raut family (part of the National Art Museum today).
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Holocaust Memorial
In 2009, this stark memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, including Jews and Roma deported and killed by the Romanian government as well as Transylvanian Jews who were killed by the then-occupying Hungarian government.
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Breite Ancient Oak Tree Reserve
Escape the crowds and visit the enchanting Breite Ancient Oak Tree Reserve, 2km out of town. Its 133 hectares boast 800-year-old oaks, with circumferences of 400cm to 600cm. Ask at the Cultural Heritage Info Centre for directions.
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Museum of Printing & Old Romanian Books
Housed in a 17th-century palace built by Constantin Brâncoveanu for his daughter Safta, the museum is filled with original books from the beginning of Romania’s printing age and manuscripts by 17th- and 18th-century Romanian writers.
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Former Ceauşescu Residence
Just east of Piaţa Charles de Gaulle is the former main residence of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu, also known as the Primăverii Palace. It’s off-limits to everyone but state guests, but it is easy to look over the wall at the lush and leafy pad.
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Armenian Church
Along B-dul Carol I, east of Piaţa Universităţii, is the alabaster Armenian Church, which originally dates from 1781 (though this church was built in 1915).
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Union Museum
This small, neoclassical palace was Alexandru Cuzas home for three years (1859–62), and later housed King Ferdinand during his WWI retreat from Bucharest. It displays the Cuza familys opulent furniture, pictures and personal effects.
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Victory Monument
Near the citys main intersection, B-dul Ferdinand and B-dul Tomis, is the Archaeological Park, which has remains of the 3rd-century Roman city wall and the 6th-century Butchers tower, loads of Roman sculptures and the modern Victory Monument.
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Prince Mihai Monastery
The former symbol of Bucharest, the 16th-century Prince Mihai Monastery was built from 1589 to 1591 under the orders of Mihai Viteazul (r 1593–1601). Ceauşescu moved it 279m east in 1985 to this patch of wasteland between apartment blocks.
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